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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Cardiovascular Seminar Series

This online series will take place on Thursdays from 4-5pm. 

If you would like to sign up to present or need any further information please contact m.anbeek@qmul.ac.uk 

Past Seminars

12th January

Dr Katja Gehmlich (University of Birmingham)

The role of Z-disc proteins in cardiomyopathy

 

9th February

Professor Tomasz Guzik (University of Edinburgh)

Targeting inflammation in hypertension and associated vascular dysfunction

 

23rd February

Dr Aleksandar Ivetic (King's College London)

Endothelial cell permeability: from a novel mechanism to a druggable target

 

9th March

Professor Iain Scott (University of Pittsburgh)

Dysregulated mitochondrial lysine acetylation in cardiometabolic disease

 

23rd March

Professor Damian Tyler (University of Oxford)

Hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging - A novel technique to assess cardiac metabolism

 

4th May

Professor Costantino Iadecola (Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute)

Neurovascular determinants of brain health: bench to bedside

 

18th May

Professor Albert van der Vliet (University of Vermont)

DUOX1 in lung remodeling during chronic lung disease. A unique role in macrophages

 

1st June

Dr Ketaki Mhatre (University of Washington)

Functional and metabolic benefits of deoxy ATP cell therapy against chronic heart failure

 

22nd June

Professor Lea Delbridge (University of Melbourne)

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction...is there something special about women?

 

29th June

Dr Chi Fung Lee (OMRF)

Mitochondrial and NAD metabolism in cardiometabolic disease

 

27th July

Dr Melanie Madhani (University of Birmingham)

Role of nitrite and persulfides in cardiovascular health and disease

 

7th September

Dr Evan DeVallance (West Virginia University)

Redox-mediated epigenetics in the vasculature following toxicant inhalation: Role of endothelial bound xanthine oxidase

 

21st September

Dr Javier Barallobre Barreiro (King's College London)

The landscape of human heart failure; studying the effect of mutations, medications and comorbidities

 

5th October

Dr George Robinson (UCL)

Lipid metabolism and inflammation in juvenile lupus: mechanisms of early atherosclerosis 

 

12th October

Professor Paul Evans (QMUL)

Endothelial responses to stress in atherosclerosis 

 

2nd November 

Heartfelt stories: why public engagement and involvement matters

 

30th November

Dr Oleksandra Prysyazhna (QMUL)

Blood pressure is regulated by RSK1/2 redox state - opportunities for a new class of anti-hypertensives

 

11th January

Professor Laurent Yvan-Charvet (INSERM, France)

Artery wall remodelling by local and distal glutamine metabolism 

 

18th January

Professor Steven Niederer (Imperial College)

A multi-scale patient-specific modelling approach to cardiac physiology, pathology and care

 

25th January

Dr Alessandra Ghigo (University of Turin)

Transcriptional and metabolic adaptations to cardiotoxic anticancer therapies

 

8th February

Dr Jan Dudek (University Clinic Wurzburg)

Activation of the integrated stress response rewires cardiac metabolism in Barth Syndrome

 

15th February

Dr Jan Miljkovic (University of Cambridge)

Chemical biology of H2S and implication of cross-talk with NO cardiovascular physiology

 

7th March

Dr Sarah Schumacher (Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine)

Cardiac GRK2 peptide as a tool to understand sexual dimorphism in heart failure and cardiometabolism

 

14th March

Dr Florian Weinberger (CNIC)

Pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes for cardiac repair - pharmacological considerations

 

21st March

Professor Kristina Lorenz (University of Würzburg)

Interfering with ERK dimerization and autophosphorylation as therapeutic strategy in heart failure

Upcoming Seminars and 2024 Dates 

4th April 

Dr Giancarlo Forte (King's College London)

The different layers of mechanosensing in the failing heart

 

18th April 

Dr Gustavo Ramos (University Hospital Würzburg)

TBA

 

9th May

Dr Jumel El-Awaisi (University of Birmingham)

Getting to the heart of the matter: advancing cardiopulmonary disease research with in vivo and ex vivo imaging techniques

 

2nd May

Dr Anna Zoccarata (King's College)

NRF2 activation in the heart induces glucose metabolic reprogramming and mediates cardioprotection via unregulation of the pentose phospate pathway

 

16th May

Dr Hiran Prag (University of Cambridge)

Targeting succinate metabolism to treat cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury

 

30th May

Professor Pasquale Maffia (University of Glasgow)

Immune dysregulation in cardiovascular disease - from novel mechanisms to therapeutic targeting

 

13th June

Dr Marie Jost (UKE, Hamburg)

Unravelling the precise molecular pathomechanisms of how mutations PRKG1 cause thoratic aneurysm and dissection 

 

27th June

Professor Danilo Norata (University of Milan)

TBA

 

11th July

Dr Ingrid Dumitriu (University of Birmingham)

 

5th September

Professor Jared Rutter (HHMI, University of Utah School of Medicine)

Metabolism, cellular decisions and the language that unites them

 

19th September

TBA

 

26th September 

Professor Allan Lawrie (Imperial College London)

TBA

 

3rd October 

TBA

 

17th October

TBA

 

31st October

TBA

 

14th November

TBA

 

28th November

Dr Xuan Li (University of Cambridge)

Regulation of microtubule function in cardiovascular disease

 

5th December 

TBA

 

12th December

TBA

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