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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
Key Publications
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 2nd, 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.
Titles & Appointments
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Associate Research Professor of Medicine
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
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