This talk will cover recent advances in the research of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and advances in the development of therapeutic modalities using electrospun nanofibrous, biocompatible scaffolds that can release sustained and controlled drug release in vitro and in vivo. This talk will also share the recent innovations in the improvement of cardiac of function in post-myocardial infarction heart by using Extracellular Matrix (ECM) in vivo. Studies including small and large pre-clinical animal models will be presented. Future direction of CVD research and therapeutic developments for clinical applications using nanoscaffold and ECM will be highlighted in this talk. Dr. Abid will share published articles by his and other group of researchers as well as unpublished data from his own research group at Cardiovascular Research Center at Brown University Alpert Medical School.

Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD is the co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Fellowship Program and an associate professor at Brown University Alpert Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI, USA. Before joining Brown in 2011, he served as a faculty at Harvard Medical School since 1999 for 12 years. He is the current chair of the program subcommittee of Brown Global Health Initiative as well as a member of the Global Health Advisory Committee at Brown University. He is currently serving on several NIH and AHA grant review committees as well as on the editorial board of scientific journals. His research has been funded continuously since 2004 by the NIH, AHA and other funding agencies. He is the recipient of the International Warner Risau Investigator Award by the American Heart Association in 2011, Stars in Global Health Award by the Grand Challenges Canada in 2018, and he was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian healthcare services for the Rohingya refuges from Myanmar and the underserved people of Bangladesh in 2020. He has more than 100 peer- reviewed scientific research articles, several book chapters and review articles.