At this year’s Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, Heart Institute staff participated in nearly 100 research presentations, workshops, panels and invited talks.
New cardiac imaging technology at the Heart Institute will allow physicians and researchers to greatly expand their pursuit of advanced heart function studies while ensuring shorter diagnostic wait times for patients.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.