EDUCATION:

1977-1984 Medical School, University of BOnn, Germany

1984 - 1985                 Military Service, Institute of Naval Medicine, Kiel, Germany

1985 - 1990                 Department of Cardiology, Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

1991- 1992                  Research Fellow at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

1992 - 1993                 Department of Internal Medicine, Community Hospital Düren, Germany

1993 - 1994           Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

1994 - 2005         Assistant Scientist, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

2005 - 2014        Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

2005 - 2014          Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (secondary appointment)

2014 - present     Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

HONORS AND AWARDS:

 1991 - 1992                 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max-Kade Foundation, New York, NY

Rubart M, Breull W, Hahn N: Regional metabolic rate of exogenous glucose in the isoprenaline and dobutamine stimulated myocardium as estimated by the 2-desoxy-D[1-14C]glucose method. Nuclear Medicine and Biology 1991;18:157-166.

Rubart M, Pressler ML, Pride HP, Zipes DP: Electrophysiological mechanisms in a canine model of erythromycin associated long - QT syndrome. Circulation 1993; 88 [part 1]:1832-1844.

Rubart M, Patlak JB, Nelson MT: Ca⁺⁺ currents in cerebral artery smooth muscle cells of rat at physiological Ca⁺⁺ concentrations. J Gen Physiol, 1996; 107: 459-472.

Miyata A, Hall S, Zipes DP, Rubart M. KB-R7943 prevents acute, atrial fibrillation – induced shortening of atrial refractoriness. Circulation 106:1410-1419, 2002.

Rubart M, Pasumarthi KBS, Nakajima H, Soonpaa M, Nakajima HO, Field LJ. Physiologic coupling of donor and host cardiomyocytes following cellular transplantation (with accompanying commentary by A. Kléber). Circ Res 92:1217-1224, 2003.

Rubart M, Soonpaa MH, Nakajima H, Field LJ. Spontaneous and evoked intracellular calcium transients in donor-derived myocytes following intra-cardiac myoblast transplantation. J Clin Invest. 114: 775-783, 2004.

Scherschel JA, Soonpaa MH, Srour E, Field LJ, Rubart M. Adult Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Do Not Acquire Functional Attributes of Cardiomyocytes Upon Transplantation Into Peri-Infarct Myocardium (with accompanying commentary by P. Menasché). Molecular Therapy, 2008;16(6):1129-1137.

Tao W, Shi J, Dorn GW 2^nd, Wei L, Rubart M. Spatial variability in T-tubule and electrical remodeling of left ventricular epicardium in mice with pathological cardiac hypertrophy. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2012;53(3):409-19.

Rubart M, Tao W, Lu X, Conway SJ, Reuter SP, Lin SF, Soonpaa MH. Electrical coupling between ventricular myocytes and myofibroblasts in the infarcted mouse heart. Cardiovasc Res, in press.