Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Faculty of Medicine

Ketul Chaudhary

Assistant Professor

Ketul-headshot
Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Email: ketul.chaudhary@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1218
Mailing Address: 
Room 3F, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS b3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Stem Cells
  • Sex differences in stem cells and cardiac physiology
  • Right heart failure
  • Cardiac vasculature
  • Study of sex as a biological variable in health and diseases

Current training opportunities

My lab is currently accepting applications for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers starting in Fall 2027. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their CV and a brief statement of research experience.

Education

  • PDF- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ University of Ottawa
  • PhD- University of Alberta
  • BPharm- Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University

Selected Publications

  • Seelemann ER, Panchakshari S, Labana PK, Wolverton MM, Deng Y, Abdelwahab H, Consmueller C, Stewart DJ, Chaudhary KR. Sexual dimorphism in right ventricular adaptation to pressure overload involves differential angiogenic response. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2025 Mar 1;328(3):H496-H508.

  • Kesavan K, Panchakshari S, Abdelwahab H, Rabelo E, Chaudhary KR. Endothelial characteristics of cardiac stem cell antigen-1 expressing cells and their relevance to right ventricular adaptation. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2025 Mar 1;103(3):98-110.

  • Cober ND, Chaudhary KR, Deng Y, Lee CJ, Rowe K, Abdelwahab H, Courtman DW, Stewart DJ. Single-cell microencapsulation improves lung retention of endothelial colony-forming cells after intravascular delivery and unmasks therapeutic benefit in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension. Cytotherapy. 2025 Jun;27(6):723-732.

  • Deng Y, Chaudhary KR, Yang A, Kesavan K, Wang L, Chathely K, Stewart DJ. Vicious cycle of hemodynamic perturbation and endothelial injury in development and progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension. bioRxiv, 2023.10.16.562339

  • Chaudhary KR, Deng Y, Yang A, Cober ND, Stewart DJ. Penetrance of Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Response to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2 Blockade in a Genetically Prone Rat Model Is Reduced by Female Sex. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Aug 3;10(15):e019488. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.019488. Epub 2021 Jul 28.

  • Bogaard HJ, Legchenko E, Ackermann M, Kühnel MP, Jonigk DD, Chaudhary KR, Sun X, Stewart DJ, Hansmann G. The Adult Sprague-Dawley Sugen-Hypoxia Rat Is Still "the One:" A Model of Group 1 Pulmonary Hypertension: Reply to Le Cras and Abman. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Mar 1;201(5):621-624. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201910-1983LE.

  • Suen CM, Chaudhary KR, Deng Y, Jiang B, Stewart DJ. Fischer rats exhibit maladaptive structural and molecular right ventricular remodelling in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension: a genetically prone model for right heart failure. Cardiovasc Res. 2019 Mar 15;115(4):788-799.

  • Chaudhary KR, Deng Y, Seun CM, Taha M, Mei SH, Petersen TH, Stewart DJ. Efficacy of treprostinil in the SU5416-hypoxia model of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension: hemodynamic benefits are not associated with improvements in arterial remodeling. Br J Pharmacol. 2018 Oct;175(20):3976-3989.

  • Chaudhary KR, Taha M, Cadete VJJ, Godoy RS, Stewart DJ. Proliferative Versus Degenerative Paradigms in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circ Res. 2017;120:1237-1239.

  • Chaudhary KR, Zordoky B, Edin ML, El-Kadi OA, Zeldin DC, Seubert JM. Differential effects of soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition and CYP2J2 overexpression on postischemic cardiac function in aged mice. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 2013 Jul-Aug;104-105:8-17.

  • Chaudhary KR, Cho WJ, Daniel EE, Seubert JM. Effect of ischemia reperfusion injury and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids on expression and localization of caveolins in mouse myocardium. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2013 Mar;61(3):258-63.

  • Please see the link for the complete publication list.