“At Ohio State, we operate under the principle that synergistic teams of scientists, engineers and clinicians are the best vehicle to accelerate breakthrough discovery and ultimately improve patient care.”
– Thomas Hund, PhD

Our Leadership

Thomas Hund, PhD

Director, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Credentials
PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University

Read Dr. Hund's Quarterly Newsletter

Our Administration

Penny Jones

Administrator

Izabelle Colvin

Assistant to the Director

Jenifer Bennett

Research Program Manager

Ellen Yokoyama

Education Program Manager - Heart and Vascular Center

Dennis Guess

Building Coordinator

Deanna Moore

Finance Manager

DeeAnn Willis-Berry

Fiscal Officer

Cynthia Hale

Office Associate

Emily Bell

Senior Director of Development

Matthew Joseph

Senior Research Associate

Bella Hohler

Student Administrative Assistant

Sidney Lauffer

Student Administrative Assistant

Riece Rivera

Student Administrative Assistant

Our Investigators

DHLRI PIs and their respective websites are listed below by department.

Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Rizwan Ahmad, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Daniel Gallego Perez, PhD

Associate Professor

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Samir Ghadiali, PhD

Professor

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Natalia Higuita-Castro, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Seth Weinberg, PhD

Associate Professor

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Division of Cardiac Surgery

Mona El Refaey, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Renzhi Han, PhD

Professor

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Prabhakara Nagareddy, PhD

Associate Professor

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Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD

Professor

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Lufang Zhou, PhD

Professor

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Hua Zhu, PhD

Professor

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Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Raymond Benza, MD

Professor

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Richard Gumina, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Yuchi Han, MD

Professor

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Thomas Hund, PhD

Professor

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Sara Koenig, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Orlando Simonetti, PhD

Professor

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Sakima Smith, MD

Associate Professor

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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Karolina Zareba, MD

Associate Professor - Clinical

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Department of Emergency Medicine
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Division of Human Genetics
Division of Nephrology
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology

Federica Accornero, PhD

Associate Professor

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Xun Ai, MD

Professor

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Shyam Bansal, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Kedryn Baskin, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD

Professor

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Krishna Chinthalapudi, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Jon Davis, PhD

Professor

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Isabelle Deschenes, PhD

Professor

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Vadim Fedorov, PhD

Professor

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Jidong Fu, PhD

Associate Professor

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Sandor Gyorke, PhD

Professor

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Sara Heissler, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Paul Janssen, PhD

Professor

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Christoph Lepper, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Peter Mohler, PhD

Professor

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Jill Rafael-Fortney, PhD

Professor

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Harpreet Singh, PhD

Associate Professor

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Kristin Stanford, PhD

Associate Professor

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Matthew Stratton, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Nuo Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Dmitry Terentyev, PhD

Associate Professor

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Noah Weisleder, PhD

Professor

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Loren Wold, PhD

Professor

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Jing Zhao, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Yutong Zhao, MD, PhD

Professor

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Mark Ziolo, PhD

Professor

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Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

Megan Ballinger, PhD

Assistant Professor

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John Christman, MD

Professor

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Sangwoon Chung, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

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Elliott Crouser, MD

Professor

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Joshua Englert, MD

Assistant Professor

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Laszlo Farkas, MD

Associate Professor

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Lynn Fussner, MD

Assistant Professor - Clinical

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Kymberly Gowdy, PhD

Associate Professor

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Jeffrey Horowitz, MD

Professor

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Matthew Long, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Ulysses Magalang, MD

Professor

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Rama Mallampalli, MD

Professor

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Yohannes Mebratu, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Ana Mora, MD

Professor

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Mauricio Rojas, MD

Professor

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Anasuya Sarkar, PhD

Assistant Professor

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College of Pharmacy
Department of Radiology
Division of Vascular Surgery

Our Affiliated Members

DHLRI Members are listed below by college.

Arts & Sciences
Dentistry
Engineering
CFAES
CEHE
Medicine
Nursing
Optometry
Pharmacy
Public Health
Veterinary Medicine
Other

Arts & Sciences

College of Arts & Sciences

Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Department of Physics

Dentistry

College of Dentistry

Division of Biosciences

Engineering

College of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

CFAES

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Department of Food Science & Technology

CEHE

College of Education & Human Ecology

Department of Human Sciences Human Nutrition

Medicine

College of Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology
Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Center for Biostatistics
Department of Family & Community Medicine
School of Health & Rehabilitation Services Division of Medical Sciences
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

William Abraham, MD

Daniel Addison, MD

M. Rizwan Afzal, MD

Umair Ahmad, MD

Mahmoud Ahmed Eid, MD

Talal Attar, MD

Ralph Augostini, MD

Cindy Baker, MD

Ragavendar Baliga, MD

MIchelle Ballinger, MD

Slaman Bhatti, MD

Philip Binkley, MD

Indra Bole, MD

Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD

Vincent Brinkman, MD

Pricilla Correa-Jaque, MD

Curt Daniels, MD

Emile Daoud, MD

Steven Dean, MD

Michael Donnally, mD

Beth Foreman, MD

Veronica Franco, MD

Katarzyna Gil, MD

Arnold Good, MD

Katie Gordon, MD

Garrie Haas, MD

Thura Harfi, MD

Ayesha Hasan, MD

Lauren Hassen, MD, MPH

Craig Hemann, MD

Mahmoud Houmsse, MD

William Houser, MD

John Hummel, MD

Rami Kahwash, MD

Steven Kalbfleisch, MD

Arsad Karcic, MD

Denis Komarov, MD

Tapan Kundu, MD

John Larry, MD

Lauren Lastinger, MD

Scott Lilly, MD

Jim Liu, MD

Doug Magorien, MD

Raymond Magorien, MD

Unni Marar, MD

Ernest Mazzaferri, MD

Laxmi Mehta, MD

Wesley Milks, MD

Phoo Pwint Nandar, MD

Toshimasa Okabe, MD

David Orsinelli, MD

Valibhav Patel, MD

Adam Potter, MD, PhD

Ben Romer, MD

James Ryan, MD

Thomas Ryan, MD

Salvatore Savona, MD

Stephen Schaal, MD

Gbemiga Sofowora, MD

Qinghua Sun, MD, PhD

Matthew Tong, MD

Ajay Vallakatti, MD

Scott Visovatti, MD

Raul Weiss, MD

Jay Zweier, MD
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology & Immunology
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Hematology
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Human Genetics
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Microbiology
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology
Department of Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Emily Amin, MD

Joseph Bednash, MD

Nitin Bhatt, MD

Nathan Brummel, MD

Nitin Bhatt, MD

Lawrence Chan, DO

Megan Conroy, MD

Avraham Cooper, MD

Philip Diaz, MD

Ryan Donald, MD

Vincent Esguerra, MD

Matthew Exline, MD

Christian Ghattas, MBBCh

Lauren Goodman, MD

Derrick Herman, MD

Kevin Ho, MD

Steven Holfinger, MD

Jennica Johns, MD

Manjula Karpurapu, PhD

Meena Khan, MD

James Londino, PhD

Sindhu Mukku, MD

Ali Naeem, MD

Richard Nho, PhD

David Nunley, MD

Stella Ogake, MBBCh

Jasleen Pannu, MBBs

Sonal Pannu, MD

Narasimham Parinandi, PhD

Johnathan Parsons, MD

Nicholas Pastis, MD

Alberto Revelo, MD

Justin Rosenheck, DO

Troy Schaffernocker, MD

Carleen Spitzer, MD

Jerome Stasek, MD

Sarah Tapyrik, MD

Joanna Tsai, MD

Jing Wang, MD

Michael Wert, MD

Mark Wewers, MD
Department of Microbial Infection & Immunity
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Physiology & Cell Biology
Department of Radiology
Department of Surgery Division of Cardiac Surgery
Department of Surgery Division of Transplant Surgery
Government Resource Center

Nursing

College of Nursing

College of Nursing

Optometry

College of Optometry

Optometry Clinic

Pharmacy

College of Pharmacy

Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology

Public Health

College of Public Health

Division of Epidemiology

Veterinary Medicine

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Veterinary Biosciences
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Other

Nationwide Children's Hospital

The Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute Team

Our Leadership

Thomas Hund, PhD

Our Administration

Penny Jones

Izabelle Colvin

Jenifer Bennett

Ellen Yokoyama

Dennis Guess

Deanna Moore

DeeAnn Willis-Berry

Cynthia Hale

Emily Bell

Matthew Joseph

Bella Hohler

Sidney Lauffer

Riece Rivera

Our Investigators

Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Division of Cardiac Surgery

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Department of Emergency Medicine

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Division of Human Genetics

Division of Nephrology

Department of Physiology and Cell Biology

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

College of Pharmacy

Department of Radiology

Division of Vascular Surgery

Our Affiliated Members

Arts & Sciences

College of Arts & Sciences

Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Department of Physics

Dentistry

College of Dentistry

Division of Biosciences

Engineering

College of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

CFAES

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Department of Food Science & Technology

CEHE

College of Education & Human Ecology

Department of Human Sciences Human Nutrition

Medicine

College of Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology

Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Center for Biostatistics

Department of Family & Community Medicine

School of Health & Rehabilitation Services Division of Medical Sciences

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology & Immunology

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Hematology

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Human Genetics

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Microbiology

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Department of Microbial Infection & Immunity

Department of Neuroscience

Department of Neurosurgery

Department of Physiology & Cell Biology

Department of Radiology

Department of Surgery Division of Cardiac Surgery

Department of Surgery Division of Transplant Surgery

Government Resource Center

Nursing

College of Nursing

College of Nursing

Optometry