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December 2011
Graduate Research: Building Collaborations and Careers
The Beat spoke with four Ottawa Heart Institute graduate students about their reasons for coming to train here, their ongoing research and their plans for the future.
Research
September 2011
Helping the Heart Heal Itself: The Promise of Regenerative Medicine
Looking for ways to supercharge cells to spur the repair of tissue damaged by heart attack.
September 2011
Researchers Discover Cellular Process that Could Reverse Major Cause of Heart Attack
A research team at the Heart Institute led by biochemist Yves Marcel, Director of the Heart Institute’s High-Density Lipoprotein Biology Laboratory, has discovered a new function for a known cellular pathway known as autophagy.
June 2011
A New Gene Linked to the Aging Process and Heart Development
A Heart Institute research team has been the first to describe a gene that appears to play a role in heart development and aging.
April 2011
Refining Cardiovascular Risk
The international CARDIoGRAM consortium has discovered 13 new genetic variants associated with increased risk for heart disease.
April 2011
International Collaboration Links 13 New Genes to Heart Disease
In the largest-ever collaborative study of its kind, a team of cardiovascular genetics researchers from around the world have identified 13 new genetic variants associated with coronary artery disease (CAD).
February 2011
RAFT Trial Among Top 10 Research Advances
The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have named the RAFT trial among the top 10 research advances in heart disease in 2010.
December 2010
Celebrating 30 Years of the Endocrine Heart
Thirty-one years ago, it was not known that the heart produces hormones. That changed in 1981 when Adolfo de Bold, PhD, discovered that muscle cells in the atria of the heart secrete atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), an essential hormone that regulates fluid volume, blood pressure and sodium.
May 2007
Heart Institute Scientists Make Genetic Discovery
UOHI researchers have identified a stretch of DNA that increases risk of heart disease by up to 40 per cent regardless of other established risk factors