“Tattooing” the heart with tiny implantable oxygen sensors is just one of dozens of concepts being presented by scientists during an international conference hosted by The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health Sept. 4-8.

Ohio State-based research using EPR technology is led by Kuppusamy and Dr. Jay Zweier, director of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI) and vice chair of the conference. The two have amassed a large body of work derived from EPR imaging studies, most recently publishing a paper in the journal Circulation that provided the first measurements of the amount of oxygen in the heart muscle in a living animal using implantable oxygen-sensing probes that can be measured by EPR spectrometer.