- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology
- Email: erahbar@tamu.edu
- Office: TIPS 2026
- Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Research Interests
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Areas of interest: traumatic injuries, hemorrhagic shock, blood biomarkers, resuscitation, cardiovascular biomechanics and CFD modeling
The Rahbar Lab (the "ER" lab) at Texas A&M aims to engineer personalized solutions for traumatic injuries. Dr. Rahbar has over a decade of experience in the area of hemorrhagic shock, resuscitation, and blood transfusions post-injury. Her lab takes a multi-scale approach to studying the complex and dynamic physiologic responses following a severe critical injury, including massive hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, and acute lung injury. Her approaches integrate computational fluid dynamics, statistical modeling, systems biology, -omics, mechanobiology, and tissue engineering to understand better the mechanisms regulating the acute response following a traumatic injury and subsequent tissue resolution and recovery phase. The Rahbar lab has been funded by the NIH/NHLBI through a K25 and current R01 Stephen Katz award, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Awards & Honors
- Research Excellence Award Recipient, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2018-2023
- Early Stage Investigator Award in Basic Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2022
- New Team Science Award for “Advanced Computational Cardiovascular Lab for Trauma, Hemorrhagic Shock & Critical Care”, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2022