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The Tong lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases associated with systemic metabolic disorders, particularly heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and atrial fibrillation (AF), with an eye toward translating these findings into innovative solutions to clinical problems.

Kong lab aims to harness the cutting-edge technologies in human genetics and genomics, immunology, and molecular biology to better understand the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal inflammation.

Meet the CDR Collaborative.

The Monson Lab is dedicated to understanding how B cells and T cells impact pathology of disease in the central nervous system.

Meet the current members of the Cardiometabolic Research Team

The Ank Nijhawan research team is focused on improving outcomes for people living with or at risk for HIV, and ensuring their access to comprehensive healthcare and social support services. We also focus on individuals involved in the criminal legal system, and specifically the overlap of infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and substance use.

Skip to main content Contact Us Irene Dougherty Research Associate/Lab Manager Contacts Email Address: irene.dougherty@utsouthwestern.edu Lab Number: 214-648-3084 Mailing Address 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390 Physical Address 6000 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235

Translational biophotonics for noninvasive detection of systemic disease.

The Sharma Lab advances cardiovascular and transplant medicine through three integrated research areas:Advanced metabolic imaging using hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI and stable-isotope carbon-13 tracer methods to visualize cardiac metabolism in living tissue and patients.Advanced multi-omics integrating transcriptomics and stable isotope-resolved metabolomics to map heart failure, ischemic heart disease, and donor organ biology while optimizing perfusion strategies for hearts and lungs.Artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop explainable AI tools that support clinical decision-making in cardiothoracic surgery and transplantation.

Zaman’s Lab focuses on the design and development of novel cutting-edge multi-mode imaging systems to overcome current limitations in clinical systems. Most recent research project is involved with the design and developed of a multimode catheter-based imaging system called a Circumferential Intravascular Radioluminescence Photoacoustic Imaging (CIRPI) for early detection of thin-cap-fibro-atheroma (TCFA), the underlying causes of coronary artery disease, one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the USA and worldwide. Further, the CIRPI system characterizes the plaques based on disease tissue compositions to unravel their complex structures. This CIRPI system integrates optical, photoacoustic, radioluminescence and ultrasound imaging. We seek to better understand the underlying causes of the disease mechanisms. We are dissecting the role of TCFA perturbations on vascular wall processes during atherosclerosis progression. Our lab also studying novel molecular imaging methods to study corona…