Madalena Costa, PhD
Staff PHD
Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology
Contact Information
| Office: | GZ-0431 |
| Phone: | 617-667-2428 |
| Fax: | 617-667-4012 |
| Email: | mcosta3@bidmc.harvard.edu |
| Address: | 330 Brookline Ave; GZ-0431
Boston, MA 02215 |
Advanced Degree And Training
| Year | Institution | Area or Rank |
| 2005 | University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences | Biophysics |
| 2008 | Harvard Medical School | Instructor |
Major Research Theme
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My work is in the field of complex systems in biomedicine. This work includes the study of life-threatening cardiac diseases (congestive heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest), neurological pathologies related to gait disorders and seizures, and the frailty syndrome. My work is at the interdisciplinary crossroads of contemporary physics, bioengineering, physiology, biology and clinical medicine. My colleagues and I have introduced new computational methods to probe the multiscale complexity of healthy systems and their breakdown with aging and disease. A major goal is to enhance diagnostics and risk stratification and to develop non-invasive approaches to forecasting potentially catastrophic events before they occur (anticipatory medicine). |
Publications
External Recognition
| * 2007 - JMSF Reserach Award * 2007 - Associate Director of the Margret and H.A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine * 2009 - K99/R00 Award from the NIA * 2009 - Invited talk on Complexity vs Variability: Taking the Pulse of Physiologic Time Series in Health and Disease at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, December 2. * 2009 - Invited faculty at the NIH-NHLBI Workshop on Biological and Biomedical Signals: Where do They Come From and How to Analyze Them? Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, March 11-15. * 2009 - Invited faculty at the Dynamic Analysis of Physiological Networks (DAPHNET) International Workshop on Physiological Networks: Theory, Implementation and Application. Giessen, Germany, June 17-19. * 2009 - Invited faculty at the Wakefield Roundtable Discussions: Complexity and Variability at the Bedside. Title of the talk: Multiscale Entropy Analysis and Moving Targets, Ottawa, Canada, Aug 23-26. * 2010 - Harvard-Portugal Collaborative Research Award * 2010 - BIDMC 2010 Research Day: Rising Stars presentation |
Investigator's Lab Web Site
| Research Lab URL | Costa Research Lab |
| Harvard Catalyst Site: | Costa Harvard Catalyst Web Site |
