Past Events

Title: Understanding aortic smooth muscle cell dysfunction in ageing and disease

Speaker: Dr Derek Warren Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of East Anglia

Explore the fascinating world of the human heart with scientists from Cambridge Cardiovascular. Join us to play a bunch of fun games that will help you try out heart surgery on a Minion. Plus, find out how big your heart is compared to the heart of a shrew, an elephant or a whale!

Title: The (not so) smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis

Speaker: Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat, University of Geneva.

Please note the change to the usual day/ time. 

Title: Monocarboxylate transporters and lactate in the brain: from cognition to neuroprotection

Prof. Luc Pellerin, Director, Inserm U1313, University of Poitiers, France

Dr. Anne-Karine Bouzier-Sore, Vice-director, CNRS UMR 5536, University of Bordeaux, France

Hosted by Thomas Krieg and Mike Murphy

Title: Epigenetic Regulation of Vascular Ageing and Calcification

Catherine Shanahan, PhD
Professor of Cellular Signaling, Cardiovascular Division, King's College London

Hosted by Helle F Jorgensen

Title: Targeting non-coding RNAs in vascular cell therapy

Professor Lars Maegdefessel

Dept of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Thursday 28 April 2022 (Virtual via Zoom)

Poster Call and Details to be published end January 2022

Aortic disease in Marfan syndrome: new molecular drivers and therapeutic targets

Juan Miguel Redondo

Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research

Hosted by Sanjay Sinha

An optogenetic on/off switch to decipher mechanisms of cardiac remuscularisation"

The Ca2+-gated Cl- channel TMEM16A is a crucial amplifier of capillary pericyte contraction in the normal and ischemic brain.

Dr Paolo Tammaro, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Oxford.