Gender Male
Guy Salama, Ph.D. Scientific Advisory Board, Founder, Professor, Cardiology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, where he has been since 1980. A central goal of his laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the initiation and termination of cardiac arrhythmias. To achieve these goals, he has developed the use of
voltage-sensitive dyes and high temporal and spatial resolution optical techniques to map patterns of action potential (AP) propagation and repolarization. Animal models for cardiac arrhythmias include: acute ischemia in the guinea pig heart and rabbit models of the long QT syndrome (LQTS). This laboratory has been at the forefront of the investigation of the role of sulfhydryl oxidation-reduction as a mechanisms to regulate Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Guy received his Bachelor’s degree from City College of New York, and did his Ph.D. and Postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania.
