T. Alexander Quinn
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Biomedical Engineering
Contact
T. Alexander Quinn, PhD
Email: alex.quinn@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4349
Web: http://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/physiology/our-people/our-faculty/alexander-quinn.html
I am interested in recruiting graduate students for Fall 2025
The Cardiac Autoregulation & Arrhythmias laboratory focuses on the intrinsic regulation of cardiac function and the effects of mechano-electric interactions on heart rhythm. Our goals are to: (i) define organ-to-subcellular autoregulatory mechanisms responsible for (patho-)physiological responses; (ii) discover their relevance for heart rhythm in health and disease; and (iii) apply insights to develop novel targeted anti-arrhythmic therapies.
Our Group
We are exploring a variety of research topics within the fields of cardiovascular physiology and disease. We employ an innovative multi-scale, multi-species approach (in whole animals to isolated tissue and cell preparations from human, rabbit, mouse, and zebrafish), combining advanced engineering-based experimental methods with computational modeling to gain insight into normal and diseased cardiac function at various levels of functional and structural complexity.