Dr. Damion T. Dixon earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Southern University in 2018 and his Ph.D. in Engineering, with an emphasis in Mechanics and Materials, from the University of Georgia in 2023. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University before joining UTHealth Houston as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School, where he conducts research through the Center for Innovation in Congenital Heart Disease (CiCHD) within the Children’s Heart Institute.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6198-6358
NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/damion.dixon.1/bibliography/public/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=5Ca9Y0AAAAAJ
Education
Doctorate: PhD, University of Georgia, 2023
Undergraduate: BS, Georgia Southern University, 2018
Research
Dr. Dixon’s research focuses on developing 3D bioprinted models of Fontan-associated liver disease to study liver fibrosis in patients with congenital heart disease who have undergone the Fontan procedure. These models will be used to study disease progression and explore potential treatments.