Presentation Title: The Emerging Role for Multi-Scale Computational Modeling in Biomedical Device Design

Andrew McCulloch is Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, where he joined the faculty in 1987. He is member of the UCSD/Salk Institute for Molecular Medicine, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and a member of the Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering, and the UCSD Center for Research on Biological Systems.

Dr. McCulloch was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in Engineering Science and Physiology receiving his Ph.D. in 1986. Dr. McCulloch was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Bio-Medical Engineering Society, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and co-Editor-in-Chief of Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology and Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. In the past year he has given the Konrad Witzig Memorial Lecture and the Donald Wassenberg Memorial Lecture.

Dr. McCulloch's lab uses experimental and computational models to investigate the relationships between the cellular and extracellular structure of cardiac muscle and the electrical and mechanical function of the whole heart during ventricular remodeling, and arrhythmia. Dr. McCulloch is a PI on the NCRR-supported National Biomedical Computation Resource, and has grants from the NHLBI, NSF and DOD on cardiac myocyte tissue engineering, the biomechanics of ventricular remodeling, signaling pathways in cardiac hypertrophy and failure, cardiac electromechanical interactions, and computational cardiac biology.

Dr. McCulloch co-founded Insilicomed in 2000.