Dr. Kyoung-Han Kim, a scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), has been awarded an Early Researcher Award from the government of Ontario.
Dr. Kyoung-Han Kim is the director of the Functional Genetics and Metabolism Laboratory at the UOHI, will receive $190,000 over five years for his project “Combinatorial role of Iroquois homeobox genes in ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy.”
The Early Researcher Awards support researchers working at publicly funded Ontario research institutions in making discoveries that help advance the development of innovative new products and technologies.
In the proposed studies, Dr. Kim and his research team will use multidisciplinary approaches to understand how new genetic factors work together to ensure proper heart muscle development, thereby preventing left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC), a rare and distinctive heart disease with unique morphological characteristics.
The results of this study will benefit Ontario by laying the groundwork for the creation of innovative LVNC therapies and diagnoses as well as enhancing the province's research profile. Dr. Kim's research program will also train the next generation of researchers who will contribute to academia as well as the biomedical and biotechnology industries.
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