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A new review has shown how medical professionals in cardiology can help reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint, by making small, low-cost changes in how they work. The review, published today in the prestigious Open Heart journal, explores the environmental impact of cardiovascular healthcare.

You may have wondered what makes stem cells so important and why they are needed for medical research.

A breakthrough discovery in understanding how white blood cells move in the body could pave the way for new treatments for chronic inflammation-related diseases including cardiovascular diseases, according to a recent study from the Centenary Institute.

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we profile Emma Singer, a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Centenary Institute’s Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics Laboratory.

World-leading research into heart muscle disease has been boosted with the Centenary Institute’s Associate Professor Mathias Francois and team awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant to investigate left ventricular non compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC).

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported study findings from the Centenary Institute that found that concealed cardiomyopathy – heart muscle disease that can cause fatal heart rhythms – is an important cause of sudden cardiac death where no cause is found from autopsy.

Professor Christopher Semsarian AM, Head of the Centenary Institute’s Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology has been recognised by the University of Sydney’s Cardiovascular Initiative (CVI) and been presented with an award for ‘Most Collaborative Cardiovascular Researcher’.

Researchers from the Centenary Institute have found that concealed cardiomyopathy is an important cause of sudden cardiac death where no cause is found from autopsy – and that genetic testing can help identify cases of concealed cardiomyopathy which provides a cause of death and also helps guide care of surviving relatives.

Dr Richard Bagnall, Head of the Centenary Institute’s Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, has been interviewed on Radio 2GB’s Healthy Living program.

Dr Jessica Orchard, Associate Faculty member at the Centenary Institute, together with Professor Ben Freedman from the Heart Research Institute, have written an article for The Conversation on wearable technologies and heart health.

Dr Jessica Orchard, Research Fellow in the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology and Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow has been promoted to the Centenary Institute’s Scientific Associate Faculty based on research excellence, productivity and emerging leadership qualities.

The Centenary Institute’s Professor Chris Semsarian AM, Head of the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology, has talked about his research into cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac death in young people, in an interview on Radio 2GB’s Healthy Living program.