Nathan J. Alves

Nathan Alves


Research Director for IU Emergency Medicine Department
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (IUSM)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University (Courtesy)

Email: nalves@iu.edu

Phone: +1 (317) 274-8770
Fax:
Location: Indianapolis

Indiana University
Department of Emergency Medicine
Van Nuys Medical Science, Room 2063
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Education

  • BS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2007
  • MS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2008
  • MS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2011
  • PhD, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2013

Research Interests

  • Develop safter direct fibrinolytic therapeutics to effectively digest blood clots while limiting bleeding risk.
  • Create high fidelity in-vivo like blood clots with reproducible clot architecture.
  • Establish ex-vivo testing platforms for assessing novel clot digesting therapeutics under flow.
  • Identify how multivalency can be leveraged to modulate enzyme activity in the body.
  • Study the effects of micro/nanoplastic exposure on blood coagulation and fibrinolysis.

Graduate Students

Shrinidhi Ravi
Yue Zhou