Anastasia Khokhlova
Research Assistant Professor
- Office
Whitaker Hall, Room 260B2 - Lab location
Whitaker Hall, Room 250, 260
Google ScholarEducation
PhD, Moscow State University, 2015MS, BS, Ural Federal University, 2010
Expertise
Studies electromechanical activity of the heart
Research
Anastasia Khokhlova's research is focused on the electromechanical coupling in the heart. Her goal is to understand how pathological conditions and therapeutic molecules affect cardiomyocyte electrophysiological and mechanical activity using experimental approaches and computational modeling.Biography
Khokhlova joined the Silva's Lab at Washington University in St. Louis in November 2023. She earned her PhD degree in biophysics from Moscow State University in 2015. After, she was a research fellow at Okayama University in Japan and at the Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine in Germany. Then, she worked as a senior scientist at the Institute of Immunology and Physiology in Russia.She received the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellowship, Japan-Russia Youth Exchange Fellowship for Young Researchers and the Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship, etc.