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David Bark, Jr., PhD

Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
SAINT LOUIS, Missouri, United States

David Bark is an Associate Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology Oncology and Biomedical Engineering. The overarching goal of his lab is to identify how mechanical stress impacts upon cell and protein function in the cardiovascular system, while advancing tools to diagnose and treat disease. With this goal, Dr. Bark has focused on investigating the role of mechanical stress in congenital heart malformations and how to improve therapies for these malformations, developing diagnostic microfluidic technology for identifying abnormal blood clotting, developing cardiovascular medical devices including prosthetic heart valves and ventricular assist devices with bioinspired antithrombotic surface treatments, and investigating the basic science mechano-processes in blood clots that form in these devices and in disease. Dr. Bark is a recipient of the 2018 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. He is the current Chair of the Biorheology Scientific Standardization Committee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).

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