Themes: Cardiovascular

We identified the link of cholesterol to Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and provide potential therapeutic targets.

About the talk: Exercise training has a powerful influence on cardiac structure and function and yet even within teams of elite athletes there is marked individual variation. Could it be that genetic influences are accentuated by the haemodynamic stressors of exercise and that athletes could provide the perfect platform for understanding inherited influences on cardiac function?Andre ...

About the talk: Biomaterials play a central role in modern regenerative medicine and tissue engineering strategies, where they serve as tuneable environments that direct cellular behaviour and function. However, one of the biggest obstacles in translating advances in biomaterials research to clinical applications is lack of sufficient vascular tissue regeneration. We develop silk fibroin-based biomaterials ...

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Four scientists from the Centenary Institute have had their world-leading research recognised by being awarded prestigious NSW Cardiovascular Research Capacity Building Grants. The grants will help drive the scientists work focused on improving the health of patients with heart and cardiovascular conditions.

The Centenary InstituteÕs Summer Research Scholarship Program for undergraduate students has drawn to a close with 14 Êstudents undertaking a series of Ôrapid-fireÕ style presentations to staff, explaining their completed research projects and talking about their work-related experiences at Centenary over the summer months.

CentenaryÕs Summer Research Scholarship program for 2020/21 is now open and accepting applications!

Professor Chris Semsarian AM, Head of the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at the Centenary Institute and spokesperson for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, has been interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on his response to recent studies linking PfizerÕs COVID-19 vaccine with myocarditis, particularly in young men.

For the past four years, the University of Canberra Stars Football Club has raised vital funds for the Centenary Institute in honour of Aaiden Bellingham, who was tragically lost in 2017. Now, they’re back for 2022 with the launch of the annual Bellingham Cup. The annual pre-season tournament focuses on bringing the club together to ...

Some of our leading cancer researchers, Professor Phil Hansbro, ProfessorÊPeter Hersey, Dr Mainthan Palendira and DrÊJessamy Tiffen have presented their project updates and recent findings to consumers and supporters at our recent consumer engagement session.

In a momentous breakthrough, Australian scientists have found that humans, and most likely the entire animal kingdom, share important genetic mechanisms with a jelly-like sea sponge that comes from the Great Barrier Reef.

Co-operation between cardiovascular researchers from the University of Zurich with researchers from the ÔLiver Enzymes in Metabolism and Inflammation ProgramÕ at the Centenary Institute have produced a breakthrough in understanding how atherosclerotic plaques (fatty deposits in arteries) form and stabilise.

Early career researchers from three of SydneyÕs leading medical research institutes, the Centenary Institute, the Heart Research Institute and the Woolcock Institute have come together to deliver the ÔECR Think Tank ProgramÕ for 2021.

World-leading research into cardiovascular disease has been boosted with three researchers from the Centenary Institute securing Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program grants from the NSW Government.

Hi I’m Jodie and I Head the Clinical Cardiac Genetics Laboratory at Centenary.

Centenary Institute researchers have discovered that genetic testing can identify Ôconcealed cardiomyopathiesÕ in nearly a quarter of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survivors who seem to have a normal heart.

Dr Jessica Orchard, a Centenary Institute researcher at the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology and a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, has been interviewed for the latest Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) podcast.

Australian cricketer Shane Warne tragically passed away from a suspected heart attack at the age of 52. In a new episode of the ‘Racing Heart’ podcast, produced by the National Centre for Sport Cardiology, Dr Jessica Orchard (Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centenary Institute) and Associate Professor Andre La Gerche (Head of Sports Cardiology ...

Professor Christopher Semsarian AM, Head of the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at the Centenary Institute and Dr Michael J. Ackerman, M.D. (Mayo Clinic) have jointly participated in a live Q&A session on the topic of COVID-19 and genetic heart disease.

World-leading research into sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people and multiple sclerosis has been boosted with two Centenary Institute researchers successfully securing prestigious Ideas Grants in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding.

Professor Chris Semsarian AM, Head of the Centenary Institute’s Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology, has featured in an article in Research Australia’s Inspire Magazine outlining the importance of philanthropy to medical research. The article highlights how the philanthropic support of Mrs Agnes Ginges and her husband, the late Mr Berel Ginges (facilitated by eminent ...

Researchers from the Centenary Institute have discovered a potential new therapy for cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs), a devastating disease that often affects young people and can result in stroke and seizures.

Dr Jessica Orchard, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney has written an article for The Conversation following the dramatic collapse of DenmarkÕs Christian Eriksen when his heart stopped during a recent Euro 2021 football match.

Research led by the Centenary Institute and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, shows that a compound present in current beta blocker treatments could be repurposed to increase efficiency and safety of infantile hemangioma therapies.

Associate Professor Mathias Francois established the Centenary Institute’s ‘David Richmond Laboratory for Cardiovascular Development: Gene Regulation and Editing’ back in June 2019. It’s the architecture and complexity of the vascular system in humans that he finds particularly fascinating, especially their mode of assembly during embryonic development.

Dr Jessamy Tiffen, a senior member of the Centenary InstituteÕs Melanoma Immunology and Oncology Program has some sage advice for aspiring female scientists in advance of this year's 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science'.

Research from the Centenary Institute showing that genetic testing can help identify the cause of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in young people who seem to have a normal heart has been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald.