Keerat Kaur
New York Medical College, USA
Biography
Keerat Kaur is currently a PhD student in Department of physiology at New York Medical College, NY. she have completed her undergraduate and master degree in the field Human Genetics from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Presently, she is working on the project entitled ‘Examining pharmacological approaches for enhancing the cardiac regenerative capacity of adult stem cells’. In the ongoing project, she is trying to characterize the benefits of pharmacological treatments for enhancing the potential of adult tissue- derived stem cells to form myocardial tissue. As, stem cell therapy has been widely accepted for its ability to give rise to differentiated cells, we are constantly developing new culture conditions that would allow to enhance the number of stem cells and also differentiate them into mature cardiac tissue. In the second project, she is examining the capability of human bone marrow cells to produce functional cardiomyocytes which can later become a source of fully differentiated cells for transplantation. The long term goal of her study is to focus on procedures that would allow the adult stem cells as a real target for clinical management.