Team Members:  Dana Donnenwirth, Dean Nehama, Dan Rosen

Capstone Client:  Wito Richter, Associate Researcher UCSF Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Reproductive Sciences

Purpose/Goal:
Measuring the beat rate of cardiac myocytes in response to various external agents will allow quantitation of the myocyte response to stimuli. Existing measuring methods require excessive time-consuming analysis. The team’s goal was to design an accessible, affordable and timely method for measuring the real-time beat rate of cultured cardiac myocytes.