Nathan J. 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
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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.