For 22 years, Dr. Rose has specialized in preclinical device pathology. Dr. Rose provides engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture investors with relevant, coherent, and timely information about the tissue response to their investigative question. Recent animal studies include heart failure models, ablation (radiofrequency and cryo-ablation), viral vector transfer by electroporation, cell transplantation, cardiac pacing and defibrillation, intravascular devices, reaction to foreign materials, and electrical stimulation of nerves. Recent tissues range from the heart to peripheral nerves, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, vessels, subcutis, central nervous system, nasal sinuses, prostate, eye, esophagus, and the lung. Prior experience includes laboratory animal pathology, prosthetic heart valve assessment, and infectious disease research.
Dr. Rose loves the entrepreneurial challenge and has twice founded her own consulting practice, recently in 2013 with her GLP compliant firm, Rose Pathology Services, LLC. Dr. Rose has held professional positions at Medtronic Physiological Research Laboratories, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Comparative Medicine, USDA National Animal Disease Center, and Kansas State University. She has served all kinds of enterprises – from the Fortune 500 to daring start-ups to national research universities. Dr. Rose earned her D.V.M and M.S. from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. from Iowa State University. She trained for the ACVP boards at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Rose is an author on 43 publications, presentations, and abstracts.