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Research Areas:

Bioinspired Design and Engineering

Quantitative Imaging

Cardiovascular Research

Wind and Sea

Micro-Nano-Meso Scale Mechanics

Art and Sciences

Welcome to the Gharib Research Group

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and solidity of our possessions.
—Thomas Henry Huxley on the reception of the Origin of Species

News Releases

An engineer comparing the human adult heart and the embryo heart might never guess that the former developed from the latter. But new results from Gharib's Group published in Science show that the embryonic vertebrate heart tube is a dynamic suction pump. Blood flows through it by a dynamic suction action (similar to the action of the mature left ventricle) that arises from wave motions in the tube. Read more... 04-05-06

Building on years of research on the way that blood flows through the heart valves, Mory Gharib, Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, and his colleagues have devised a new index for cardiac health based on a simple ultrasound test. Read more... 04-10-06

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have joined a global medical effort to address a number of diseases through innovative, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary approaches. Read more... 10-25-05

Research by Dr.'s Jay Hove (Gharib's Group) and Reinhard Koster (Fraser's Group) add to the growing evidence that cardiovascular disease may be rooted in processes initiated in the developing embryo and fetus. New in vivo imaging techniques based on confocal microscopy confirm that intracardiac fluid forces are essential for normal heart looping and for chamber and valve development in early embryonic zebrafish. See cover article in Nature, January 8, 2003.

Caltech researchers successfully raise obelisk with kite to test theory about ancient pyramids. Read more... 06-25-01

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	We must measure what is measurable and make measurable what cannot be measured. —Galileo Galilei c. 1610

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