Karen Maass
NYU School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Dr. Maass joined NYU School of Medicine in 2008 after completing her PhD at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany and a postdoctoral fellowship in experimental electrophysiology at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She is research assistant professor of medicine at the NYU Leon H. Harney Divison of Cardiologyy, and specializes in mouse molecular genetics, embryonic stem cell biology and experimental models of cardiovascular development and disease, evidenced by numerous publications. Dr. Maass serves as associate F1000 faculty member for cardiovascular pharmacology and as scientific peer-reviewer, including the American Heart Association’s regenerative cell biology Peer Review Committee.
Abstract
Abstract : The use of pluripotent stem cells to study cardiac conduction system development and disease