photo by Marci E. Hersh
Left to right: Marco E. Cabrera,
Associate Director of the MIMS Center, Assistant Professor
of Pediatrics, Biomedical Engineering, and Physiology and
Biophysics at CWRU, and Scientist at the Research Institute
of the University Hospitals of Cleveland accompanies Tanya
Caralla, an applicant for the graduate program in the department
of biomedical engineering on a tour of the systems physiology
lab, part of the CWRU Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic
Systems (MIMS) which is funded with a five-year, $11.9 million
grant from the National Institute of General Medical Science,
an arm of the National Institutes of Health. Naveen Sharma,
a graduate student in the department of physiology and biophysics
in the CWRU school of medicine, discusses his work collecting
data of heart metabolism during exercise.
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Marco E. Cabrera is looking forward to the University's first
annual Research ShowCASE.
At the event, Cabrera—associate director of the Center for
Modeling Integrated Metabolic Systems (MIMS); assistant professor
of pediatrics, biomedical engineering, and physiology and biophysics
at CWRU; and scientist at the Research Institute of the University
Hospitals of Cleveland—plans to highlight his work and the
people who make his team one of the best research groups in the
nation.
He also will open the doors of his laboratories—the exercise
lab at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, the computational
physiology lab and the systems modeling and integration core of
the MIMS Center—to visitors upon request.
Cabrera is one of more than 600 faculty, staff, postdoctoral
researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers
from affiliated institutions, who will showcase their work during
Research ShowCASE from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 4 in Veale Center.
Cabrera's research is primarily aimed at improving the work capacity
of active and sedentary healthy adolescents, chronically ill children
and astronauts exposed to long-term space travel. His work also
endeavors to improve the understanding of the cellular processes
regulating the way metabolism adapts to acute and prolonged periods
of exercise or inactivity.
For more on Research ShowCASE, go to http://www.cwru.edu/menu/showcase.
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