Mahajan Lab News

As the official journal of the International Neuromodulation Society, Neuromodulation is a leading journal representing the global practice of neuromodulation, a rapidly growing and diverse multidisciplinary field.

Siamak Salavatian, PhD, Director of Neuromodulation Research in our department, will present his work at the annual conference of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, the UCLA Cardiac Neurobiology Research Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series, and the 16th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society.

Dr. Abigail Hellman from the research lab of Dr. Aman Mahajan received a fellowship award for her project “Oxytocin Receptor in the Spinal Neuraxial Modulation of Ventricular Excitability” from the American Heart Association.

The April 2023 edition of Anesthesiology features an article from our multidisciplinary team of cardiovascular, neuroscience, bioengineering, and biophysics researchers with an accompanying editorial and podcast.

Bradley K. Taylor, PhD; Abigail Hellman, PhD; Tyler Nelson; Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD, MBA; and Kimberly Howard-Quijano, MD, MS, FASE, were awarded $50,000 for their project “A Non-Invasive Nasal Spray to Treat Neuropathic Pain.”

Siamak Salavatian, PhD, will present the poster “Spinal Cord Stimulation Mitigates the Myocardial Ischemia Induced Sympathoexcitation by Suppressing the Spinal Neural Synchrony and Intermediolateral Nucleus Hyperactivity” at the Experimental Biology annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA on April 4.

The annual meetings of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA), and Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and the Symposium of the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) have been aligned for 2022. The events wil be held virtually on the following dates:

• AUA Annual Meeting:...

Building upon the Peter and Eva Safar Lectureship established in 1980, this yearly event honors the late Dr. Peter Safar and his wife Eva for their contributions to the scientific community and highlights current research in areas spanning Dr. Safar’s scientific career and interests.

Kimberly Howard-Quijano, MD, MS, and Marta Kelava, MD, were awarded the inaugural Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Multi-Institutional Collaborative Clinical/Translational Research Grant for their project "The Effect of Continuous Low Tidal Volume Ventilation and Hyperoxia Avoidance during Cardiopulmonary Bypass.”

In his project, Dr. Salavatian will investigate the neuronal interactions in the cardiac nervous system in the setting of cardiac disease and evaluate the efficacy of neuromodulation therapy in mitigating the adverse effect of cardiac pathology.