Medical Flow Physics Laboratory (MFPL)

USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience

Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

NEWS ABOUT OUR GROUP

  1. - Prof. Niema Pahlevan has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) (2024).
  2. - "E-cigarettes Damage Blood Vessels, While Traditional Cigarettes Impair Heart Function." Our paper has been published in the ‎Journal of the American Heart Association‎ (JAHA). Links to selected press releases: WKYT Midmorning (link), USC Viterbi (link), Annenberg Media (link), UC Irvine School of Population and Public Health (link), and msn news (link).
  3. - We are thrilled to announce that our team has had the honor of having 4 abstracts accepted at the prestigious and highly competitive American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2024.
  4. - Our paper on noninvasive Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure (LVEDP) Measurement (link to paper)‎ in Physiological Measurement has been selected as Editor’s Choice article of the month!.
  5. - Professor Pahlevan has been appointed as one of the Executive Editorial Board members of Physiological Measurement. (2024).
  6. - Congratulations to Soha! Soha Niroumandi received American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship Award ‎ (2024).
  7. - We are thrilled to announce that our team has had the honor of having 5 abstracts accepted at the prestigious and highly competitive American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session 2024.
  8. - Dr. Alavi joined ‎ California Institute of Technology ‎ (Caltech) as the James Boswell Postdoctoral Scholar. (9/01/2023)
  9. - Congratulations to Dr. Alavi! Rashid received the James Boswell Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from Caltech and HMRI. (08/25/2023)
  10. - We are thrilled to announce that our team has had the honor of having 6 abstracts accepted at the prestigious American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2023.
  11. - Congratulations to Dr. Alavi! Rashid successfully defended his PhD thesis. (06/13/2023)
  12. - Dr. Aghilinejad joined ‎ California Institute of Technology ‎ (Caltech) as a postdoctoral scholar. (2023)
  13. - Congratulations to Dr. Aghilinejad! Arian successfully defended his PhD thesis. (03/09/2023)
  14. - Congratulations to Rashid Alavi! Rashid received USC Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award ‎. (2023)
  15. - Congratulations to Rashid Alavi! Rashid received the highly prestigious honorable mention at American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Award ‎ and was one of the top 5 finalist: "American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Young Investigator Award in Basic and Translational Science"
  16. - Congratulations to Arian Aghilinejad! Arian received USC Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award ‎. (2023)
  17. - Dr. Pahlevan becomes an Academic Editor at PLOS ONE . (2022)
  18. - Dr. Pahlevan received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. (2022)
  19. - Dr. Pahlevan received USC Viterbi Junior Research Award ‎. (2022)
  20. - Arian Aghilinejad received American Heart Association(AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship Award ‎. (2022)
  21. - Congratunlations to Dr. Amlani! Dr. Faisal Amlani started his faculty position as an Assistant Professor at CNRS chargé de recherche, France ‎. (2022)
  22. - An interesting alternate reality article about Dr. Pahlevan in Viterbi MAGAZINE: "INFINITE VERSIONS OF US:THE ROADS NOT TAKEN".
  23. - An article by Avni Shah about our research: What if Silent Heart Attacks Could be Diagnosed at Home?
  24. - Dr. Pahlevan received American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award‎. (2020)
  25. - Dr. Pahlevan received NIH High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56) for the project titled “Hemodynamic Mechanisms Linking Aortic Arch Stiffness with Brain Insult in Older Adults”. (2020)
  26. - Congratulations to Arian Aghilinejad for being selected as the 2020 recipient of the Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowship.
  27. - Voice of America (VoA) interview with Dr. Pahlevan (in Farsi) (Link)
  28. - IEEE Future Directions article about our recent iPhone Ejection Fraction paper (Link)
  29. - HMRI interview with Dr. Pahlevan (Link)
  30. - Open Mic at AHA about Dr. Pahlevan and his collaborators’ work presented by Dr. Pahlevan at AHA 2016 scientific session: (Link)
  31. - Article in Pasadena Now about our work published in Critical Care Medicine (Link)