David N. Ku, PhD MD

Regents' Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

David N. Ku, BA (Harvard) PhD (GaTech) MD (Emory), Regents' and L.P. Huang Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology. My clinical background in Vascular Surgery drives my interest in arterial thrombosi, artificial circulatiion, and hemostasis from trauma. Our biophysics work helped understand the role of high shear rates in agglomerating and capturing platelets into a strong mass to withstand arterial pressures. We have developed a Point-of-Care test for SIPA, an in vitro recreation of thrombus in ECMO circuits, computational models of platelet aggregation, and experimental demonstration of novel anti-platelet and thrombolytic agents.

Presentation(s):

• PB0343 - N-Acetyl Cysteine Prevents Occlusive Arterial Thrombosis in a Dose-Dependent Manner

  Sunday, July 10, 2022
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

• SSC 17.10 - Structure of shear-induced platelet aggregated clot formed in an in vitro arterial thrombosis model

  Monday, July 11, 2022
  5:49 PM – 6:01 PM

• PB0799 - Multi-scale modeling of SIPA showing VWF agglomeration and capture of platelets with high shear

  Monday, July 11, 2022
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

• PB0873 - Histology of Shear-Induced Platelet Aggregated (SIPA) Thrombus Formed in vitro

  Monday, July 11, 2022
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM