- Could we boost a failing heart with ‘muscle patches’?
- Could a stem cell injection help heart tissue regenerate?
- Can mini hearts in a petri dish solve the mystery of 2,400 babies born with heart disease?
- And can they explain what COVID is doing to our hearts?
Heart disease kills more than 18,500 Australians a year but that’s going to change. Not tomorrow, but in the coming decades.
Four of Australia’s top stem cell researchers joined a live online audience to answer these questions and more in the webinar event Future Medicine: Healing the Heart.
Featuring speakers:
- Associate Professor James Chong, a researcher at the Westmead Institute of Medical Research and the University of Sydney, and a cardiologist at Westmead Hospital, working on
- Professor Enzo Porrello, a stem cell scientist at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute working to understand congenital heart diseases and developing tissues to supplement pumping.
- Professor James Hudson, a bioengineer at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute finding drug candidates for COVID 19-related heart damage.
The event was hosted by stem cell biologist and Foundation director and Professor Megan Munsie, from The University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
Watch a video recording of the event:
Audience feedback:
“Wonderful session! Thank You everybody” - Mainul
“Thanks to James, Enzo and Hudson for your time. Really interesting” - Allen
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