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Dr. Jayan Nagendran, Chief Medical Officer, is a cardiac surgeon clinician-scientist, and the Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation at the University of Alberta, and the Director of Research for the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. He received his doctorate in Experimental Medicine through the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2009. Dr. Nagendran completed his residency in cardiac surgery at the University of Alberta, and then received sub-specialty training in heart and lung transplantation at Stanford University from 2009-2011. Dr. Nagendran joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Alberta in 2011 and since 2017 is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery.

In February 2020, Dr. Nagendran and Tevosol won the NASA iTech Ignite the Night award at Tampa. Also, in October 2020, Dr. Nagendran and Tevosol were also chosen as Cycle I Forum Finalists at NASA iTech. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds numerous peer reviewed grants in support of his research projects while also participating as a peer-reviewer to major transplant journals including the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Journal of Transplantation, and Nature Communications.