Author Archives: Dr. Jeff Jacot, Director - Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering

About Dr. Jeff Jacot, Director - Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering

I am the director of the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Laboratory in the division of Congenital Heart Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and an assistant professor of Bioengineering at Rice University.

My primary research goals are to develop a living heart patch for use in repair of congenital heart defects that is made from a patient's own cells and is contractile and conductive like native heart muscle, and to investigate the role of mechanics in the heart maturation and the development of heart defects.