Professional Bio
Swati Dey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her lab is dedicated to studying the underlying molecular mechanisms of heart failure and sudden cardiac death.
To better understand molecular and cellular mechanisms and apply this knowledge to the development of novel strategies for enhanced therapy, we take a multidisciplinary approach (e.g., in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo, in situ, big data) for parallel studies of animal models and humans. Her research is based on the premise that autonomic, inflammatory, and redox modulation of multiple physiological signals reflects, in part, an early integrative response to the onset of subclinical disease processes.
Dr. Dey's lab designed new in vivo therapies for HF and SCD by reducing sympathetic stress-mediated adverse remodeling in the heart (e.g., using gene therapy to convert sympathetic nerves to parasympathetic nerves, device-based stimulation of sympathetic nerves). Our goal is to establish long-term collaborations to employ a multidisciplinary translation.
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Education
MS - Banaras Hindu University, 2006
PhD - The Ohio State University, 2012
Fellowship - Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307