Jihyun Lee featured on PHRT webpage
BEL PhD student Jihyun Lee and her research project within the Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) initiative featured on the "Meet the researchers" website of PHRT.
Jihyun Lee and her PHRT iDoc-Project titled "A microelectronics-based in-vitro platform for testing major arrhythmic events in the rare cardiac disease ARVC/D" were featured on the PHRT webpage Meet the researchers. The project is a collaboration between the group of Prof. Firat Duru at the cardiology unit of the University Hospital Zurich and our group at D-BSSE of ETH Zurich. The Project is about studying rare hereditary cardiac diseases, which cause sudden cardiac death. The work includes to use human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are derived from patients and retain the patient’s genetic signature. The iPSCs are differentiated into cardiomyocytes, and high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) are used - along with extensive signal processing and machine learning - to measure and analyze the electrophysiological data of the patient-specific iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.
Personalized Health and Related Technologies (external page PHRT) is a strategic focus area of the ETH Domain with the goal of improving the quality of Personalized Health and Precision Medicine by providing a choice of individual therapeutic strategies for patients.