Dr Vijay Rajagopal is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Rajagopal's main research interests are in understanding biological remodelling: how cells integrate chemical and mechanical signals to adapt and maintain organ function and how these adaptation mechanisms are affected in disease.
He develops anatomically and functionally detailed computer models of cells and tissues that are closely tied to clinical data and experimental measurements. These models can be used to study fundamental biophysical mechanisms underlying biological remodelling. They can also be used for hypothesis testing in drug-discovery research and for disease modelling.
Dr. Rajagopal has a broad range of expertise in bioengineering spanning image analysis, biomechanics and mechanobiology, and systems and computational biology. Dr. Rajagopal received a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Auckland, Auckland Bioengineering Institute. His PhD research pioneered the development of patient-specific and anatomically accurate models of the breast for breast cancer image analysis applications. This work was recognised in the New Zealand Young Scientist of the Year and MICCAI Young Scientist of the Year awards. He was then awarded a prestigious Early Career Researcher grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to conduct pioneering studies to understand the sub-cellular mechanisms of heart disease. Subsequently, Dr. Rajagopal conducted research in cancer metastasis using microfluidics approaches at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
At the University of Melbourne Dr. Rajagopal combines these areas of expertise to discover sub-cellular mechanisms of heart disease. He is also leveraging this expertise to study sub-cellular mechanisms of cancer metastasis and red blood cell related diseases.
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An automated workflow for segmenting single adult cardiac cells from large-volume serial block-face scanning electron microscopy data
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Computational modeling of single-cell mechanics and cytoskeletal mechanobiology
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Could Stem-Cell Derived Tissue Cultures Replace Animal Models For Drug Screening In Primar..
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Erythrocyte beta spectrin can be genetically targeted to protect mice from malaria
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Mammogramic Density (Md) And Breast Cancer (The Project) With Peter Maccallum Cancer Insti..
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Changes in mitochondrial morphology and organization can enhance energy supply from mitoch..
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2009 Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast Start Award
2008 Finalist at New Zealand Young Scientist of the Year Awards
2007 MICCAI Young Investigator of the Year competition
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Positions
Positions
Snr Lecturer, Computational Cellular Biomechanics
Biomedical Engineering
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Australian Physiological Society
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Australian Society of Biophysics
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Australia NZ Society of Biomechanics
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Australian Mathematical Society
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Australia NZ Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Biophysical Society
Education
Education
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching
University of Melbourne
Bioengineering
University of Auckland
Engineering Science
University of Auckland