Diwakar Turaga, MD, PhD
- Critical Care
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Phone:
832-826-6230
Languages: English
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Get to know Diwakar Turaga, MD, PhD
Personal Statement
My primary career objective is to combine clinical work in pediatric cardiac critical care with research in cardiac regenerative medicine.
Clinical Interests
Single ventricle physiology, ventricular assist devices
Research interests
Single-cell transcriptomics, pediatric heart failure, ventricular unloading, post-transplant rejection
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Publications
Turaga D, Matthys OB, Hookway TA, Joy DA, Calvert M, McDevitt TC. Single-Cell Determination of Cardiac Microtissue Structure and Function Using Light Sheet Microscopy. Tissue Eng Part C Methods. 2020 Apr;26(4):207-215. PubMed PMID: 32111148.
Hammen GF, Turaga D, Holy TE, Meeks JP. Functional organization of glomerular maps in the mouse accessory olfactory bulb. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Jul;17(7):953-61. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4327767.
Turaga D, Holy TE. Organization of vomeronasal sensory coding revealed by fast volumetric calcium imaging. J Neurosci. 2012 Feb 1;32(5):1612-21. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3342671.