Dr. Emilio Alarcon has been awarded an Early Researcher Award by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Dr. Alarcon will receive funding in the amount of $190,000 over 5 years for his project titled Bio-inspired functional nanomaterials for tissue engineering. The...
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Dr. Kyoung-Han Kim will receive nearly one million dollars from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Spring 2024 Project Grant Program
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the winning recipients of its Project Grant program for Spring 2022, and three University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) researchers have been awarded more than $3 million in project funding. The winning researchers from the UOHI for...
All-Canadian innovation an “unprecedented leap forward” in addressing repair of cardiac muscle after a heart attack. Scientists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) have developed the first human protein gel material capable of repairing damaged heart tissue after a heart attack. The...
[OTTAWA] – Scientists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) have developed the first human protein gel material capable of repairing damaged heart tissue after a heart attack. The gel, made from recombinant human collagen in the BioEngineering and Therapeutic Solutions (BEaTS)...
A high-impact publication led by Peter Liu, MD, of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, is published in Nature Cardiovascular Research. In their paper, Dr. Liu et al report that the expression of a protein, a growth factor known as IGFBP7, is significantly increased in the heart and blood in...
The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (FoM) has bestowed Drs. Katey Rayner and Jodi Edwards of the Heart Institute with Awards of Excellence in recognition of the importance and exceptional characteristics of their work. Dr. Rayner received the FoM Award of Excellence for Researcher of the...
Scientists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) have demonstrated that autophagy, the body’s natural way of removing unnecessary or dysfunctional cell components through a lysosome-dependent mechanism, is highly impaired in vascular smooth muscle foam cells, suggesting that targeting...
Two University of Ottawa Heart Institute scientists - Emilio Alarcon, PhD, and Erin Mulvihill, PhD – will work on important projects receiving federal funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)...
The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (FoM) has bestowed Mireille Ouimet, PhD and Benjamin Hibbert, MD, PhD, of the Heart Institute with Awards of Excellence in recognition of the importance and exceptional characteristics of their work. Mireille Ouimet received the FoM Award of Excellence...
The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (FoM) bestowed three Heart Institute staff with Faculty Member Awards of Excellence in recognition of the importance and exceptional characteristics of their work. Emilio Alarcon, PhD is the FoM’s Biomedical Researcher of the Year. Thais Coutinho, MD is...
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) will co-present the 4th North American Aortic Valve Repair Symposium September 13-14 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The symposium is a joint effort of the UOHI and the Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of...
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), like The Ottawa Hospital and others across the region, will follow the provincial government directive and implement a COVID-19 vaccination policy for everyone working in the hospital environment. Key dates under the vaccine policy The UOHI will...
Dr. Derek So awarded important funding through the Ontario COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund. Dr. Derek So, a cardiologist and clinician investigator at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, is a recipient of $751,520 in provincial funding through the Ontario COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund. So will now...
The Canadian Centre for Rare Cardiac Conditions will host the 3rd Annual Rare Cardiac Conditions Conference on February 28, coinciding with International Rare Disease Day
Use of the VARIPULSE™ Platform marks a significant milestone in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
Dr. Peter Liu, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s chief scientific officer and vice president of research, is receiving upwards of $1.1 million ($1,176,019) in support through the COVID-19 May 2020 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity. The Government of Canada is providing the funding for this...
OTTAWA, November 28, 2023 - Cardiac surgeon Dr. Hugo Monteiro Neder Issa and cardiologist Dr. Hanh Nguyen have joined their respective teams in the divisions of cardiac surgery and cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI). Dr. Hugo Monteiro Neder Issa Dr. Hugo Monteiro Neder...
Researchers from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) and the uOttawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) will establish the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI) with a $109-million grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Funding will support a research program...
Congratulations, Dr. Rob Beanlands The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and its Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), in partnership with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, has named Dr. Rob Beanlands, Vered Chair and Division Head of Cardiology at the University of...