Engineering the mitral valve:

bioinspired control of structure and function for enhanced in vivo performance

Team

Viktor Balashov

Post Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Viktor Balashov received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia) in 2014 and 2016, respectively. In 2020, he earned his PhD in Biophysics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in heart tissue engineering, where he continued to work as a researcher and biostatistician (2021). At the beginning of 2022, he joined the Prof. D’Amore laboratory of Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering at Ri.MED Foundation as a postdoctoral researcher and started working on the field of tissue engineering heart valves.

Dr. Viktor Balashov’s research focuses on the development of a Tissue Engineered Mitral Valve. His expertise includes material processing such as electrospinning, polymer synthesis, immunocytochemistry, ultramicrotomy, isolation and cultivation of cardiac cell cultures, and statistical processing of the results. He also handles optical and electron microscopy techniques such as confocal, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy.

Engineering the mitral valve:

bioinspired control of structure and function for enhanced in vivo performance