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Alain Karma
Director of CIRCS and CAS Distinguished Professor of Physics
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Biological Physics, heart rhythm disorders, nonlinear dynamics, theoretical and computational materials science

Alain Karma for Northeastern Global News

Bronny James shooting a basketball

Bronny James, son of LeBron James, suffers cardiac arrest. What are his chances for recovery?

Northeastern experts Dr. Gian Corrado and Alain Karma offer insight on the 18-year-old son of NBA star LeBron James, who was in stable condition one day after being stricken while practicing with his University of Southern California basketball team in Los Angeles.

Researchers identify 36 new genes implicated in cardiac disease

In a paper published Saturday in npj Systems Biology and Applications, Northeastern physics professor Alain Karma and his colleagues describe their discovery of 36 previously unknown genes implicated in heart failure.

Take 5: Questions of the heart

From studying the physics of a heartbeat to designing new cardiac disease detection methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain.