Our next #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr @jvillanueva01 will be presenting: 'Improving donor heart preservation with funnel web spider venom and the anti-diabetic drug empagliflozin
Our first #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr @jlee_thompson will be presenting: 'Multi-omic analysis of shared genetic pathways between neurodevelopmental delay and congenital heart disease' @egiannoulatou
🕚 Time to log in! Our #PaulKornerSeminar starts at 12pm. First up today is Dr @jlee_thompson, Postdoctoral Scientist from the @egiannoulatou Laboratory, followed by Dr @jvillanueva01, Senior Postdoctoral Scientist from the MacDonald Laboratory.
#OnThisDay in 1967, the world’s 1st heart transplant was performed by Professor Christiaan Barnard. Whilst recipient Louis Washkansky only lived for 18 days, survival rates for heart transplant patients are now 80% a year after surgery and 70% 5 yrs later:
#OnThisDay in 1982, the 1st artificial heart was implanted into US patient Barney Clark, who survived a further 112 days. The race is now on to develop a durable artificial heart, learn more:
Pleased to announce A/Prof @AlastairStewart, Prof Boris @Martinac_Lab and Dr Zijing Zhou have received funding from the 2025 ARC Discovery Projects scheme. The @arc_gov_au funding supports basic and applied research and is vital to the Institute’s work:
A huge honour for the Institute’s CEO and Director, Professor @Kovacic_Jason, to be announced as @AAMRI_Aus’s President Elect. It’s a critical time for the sector but we have no doubt that Prof Kovacic will be an influential advocate for the medical research community.
🍞 Is bread good for my heart? Do I need to eat only fresh foods to be heart healthy? And what exactly is the difference between processed and ultra-processed? 🤔 We sort the fact from the fiction when it comes to ultra-processed foods:#HeartDisease
Our next #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Jess Farr will be presenting: ‘Developing A Cloud Native Website to Enhance the Analysis, Visibility, and Impact of Cardiac Ion Channel Research’#InnovationCentre
Get ready to log in! Our #PaulKornerSeminar starts at 12pm. First up today are Dr @maz_adam and Esther Kristiano from our #InnovationCentre Metabolomics Facility, followed by Jess Farr, Senior Software Engineer from our #InnovationCentre Biomedical Data Science Facility .
It’s one of the most lethal cancers but Prof Nigel Turner's @cellbioenerglab is urgently trying to identify new molecular targets + approaches to beating pancreatic cancer. Discover more about their work to improve survival rates:#WorldPancreaticCancerDay
#OnThisDay in 1999, Dr Victor Chang is voted Australian of the Century. We are so proud his pioneering heart transplant work continues to to flourish at the Institute and @SVHSydney and he’s still inspiring scientists to follow in his footsteps.
Using these new methods #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr @sarah_e_hancock hopes to better understand the role of alternate desaturation pathways in cancer, metabolic disease, and more! #lipidomics#metabolomics#TeamMassSpec @cellbioenerglab
Our next #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr @sarah_e_hancock will be presenting: ‘Combining charge-switch derivatization with epoxidation to enable profiling of isomeric fatty acids’@cellbioenerglab
#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr Jordan Thorpe discusses the latest progress into the investigation of how inflammation can cause atrial fibrillation, from 2D multi-electrode arrays to 3D cardiac patches. #stemcells#ipscs#afib @adamphill
#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr Jordan Thorpe discusses the development of iPSC models for studying atrial arrhythmias, delving into the role of inflammation and cytokines in arrhythmogenesis, from 2D multi-electrode arrays to 3D cardiac patches. #stemcells#ipscs#afib @adamphill
🕚Time to log in! Our #PaulKornerSeminar starts at 12pm. First up today is Dr Jordan Thorpe, Senior Postdoctoral Scientist from the @adamphill Laboratory, followed by Dr @sarah_e_hancock, Postdoctoral Scientist from @cellbioenerglab.
Our spider venom work led by Profs Bob Graham + Peter Macdonald is up for an award – but we need your help securing the win🗳️ Both are part of the Infensa team which is powering ahead with a new heart attack treatment derived from spider venom. Vote now:
Fantastic to see genomics and the role it could play in addressing the gaps in health outcomes between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians being highlighted at this year’s @SohnHeartsMinds in an interview of Prof Alex Brown @ourANU by the Institute's Prof @Kovacic_Jason.
Congrats to Dr @YashutoshJoshi, Asia Pacific Young Investigator Award winner at the Int'l Society for Mechanical + Circulatory Support Conference in 🇯🇵. Dr Joshi is part of a team leading research into the use of spider venom to treat heart attacks + boost heart transplant no#s
Keeping an eye on your waist size and your blood sugar levels could also help keep diabetes at bay. This #WorldDiabetesDay learn more about metabolic disease and how it raises your risk of diabetes and heart disease, and what you can do to combat it:
Adults with CHD are 6x more likely to have a stroke according to a @CERC_UWA report. One of the lead authors, Dr @LeeNedkoff, based at the Institute’s hub at UWA, says the findings will better enable patients to undergo preventative treatments:
