Dawood Darbar, MBChB, MD

Dr. Dawood Darbar is Professor and J. Lloyd Huck Chair of Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. His research program focuses on uncovering the genetic, molecular, and electrophysiologic mechanisms underlying cardiac arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation (AF), and translating these discoveries into new approaches for disease prevention and treatment. His laboratory integrates human genetics, genomics, induced pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial cardiomyocytes (iPSC-aCMs), CRISPR gene editing, engineered human cardiac tissues, animal models, electrophysiology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate inherited and acquired cardiovascular disease. Current areas of interest include atrial fibrillation, inherited arrhythmia syndromes, cardiomyopathy, precision cardiovascular medicine, functional genomics, gene regulatory networks, transcriptomics, cardiovascular genetics, and translational cardiovascular research. Dr. Darbar welcomes graduate students interested in cardiovascular biology, genetics, genomics, computational biology, and translational research.

Keywords: atrial fibrillation (AF), cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular genetics, human genetics, genomics, functional genomics, transcriptomics, gene regulation, precision medicine, inherited arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes, CRISPR, engineered heart tissues, cardiac ion channels, artificial intelligence (AI), systems biology, translational cardiovascular research, cardiovascular biology.