Sharma Lab
Description
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.