Dr. Damir B. Khismatullin
Dr. Damir B. Khismatullin
I was trained as a physicist at Bashkir State University (Ufa, Russia) and had extensive postdoctoral training in biomedical acoustics at Boston University, computational modeling of biological flows at Virginia Tech, and blood cell mechanics at Duke University. Thanks to this multi-faceted training, I was able to develop a successful research laboratory at Tulane University, with multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and grant support from federal, state, and private foundations. My research interests include biomechanics of circulating cells, blood rheology, inflammation, hemostasis, therapeutic ultrasound, development of acoustics-based methods for medical diagnostics, and contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging. Many projects in my laboratory are translational. For instance, our research on acoustic levitation of biological fluids led to the development of an innovative non-contact technology for drop-of-blood coagulation analysis, referred to as “acoustic tweezing coagulometry (ATC)”. I am the PI of 4 active IRB-approved human subjects’ studies to test ATC for coagulation analysis in healthy volunteers, smokers, patients on anticoagulant therapy, infectious disease patients, liver surgery patients, and adult and pediatric patients with hemophilia and sickle cell disease.
With a family and two kids, free time is rare, but when I do find a moment, I enjoy singing, watching K-dramas, and doing cardio workouts.