Research Interest Areas

• Explore the effect of early atherosclerosis on myocardial perfusion, microvascular permeability, and functional responses to coronary artery stenosis.
• Study the potential beneficial effects of chronic supplementation with statins on ischemic kidney.
• Seek critical knowledge about the pathophysiology of renovascular disease that will advance the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
• Facilitate renal microvascular repair utilizing antioxidants and cell-based approaches.
• Investigation of the potential benefit of pre-selected populations of autologous progenitor cells in the kidney.
• Develop and apply tomographic imaging techniques using multi-detector CT and magnetic resonance imaging.