The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) is saddened by the passing of Dr. Tofigh (Tofy) Mussivand, an internationally acclaimed and renowned scientist who passed away on January 7, 2024. For more than 30 years, Dr. Tofy Mussivand served as chair and director of the Cardiovascular Devices...
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Dr. Kelly Cobey will have the opportunity to shape evidence-based policy in Canada
The Government of Ontario has named Mireille Ouimet, PhD, of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) a recipient of an Early Researcher Award. She will receive a total of $190,000 in project funding for atherosclerosis research. Ouimet will study innovative ways to remove cholesterol from...
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has named Jodi Edwards, PhD, of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) a recipient of its Clinical Trials Training Platforms program. The scientist has been awarded $2.9M in funding for the STROKECOG (STROKE and COGnition) Training Platform...
Dr. Jodi Edwards, a scientist and director of the Brain and Heart Nexus Research Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), and an affiliate investigator at Bruyère Research Institute, is the principal author of five innovative recommendations and a checklist to improve preclinical...
The Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, led by George Wells, PhD, is the coordinating centre for a randomized controlled trial recently published in one of the world’s leading medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine. Wells et al conclude...
Scientist and Director of the Cardiometabolic microRNA Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Katey Rayner, PhD, has been awarded the 2019 Daniel Steinberg Early Career Investigator Award in Atherosclerosis/Lipoproteins. Continue reading »
Congratulations Katey Rayner, PhD Scientist and Director of the Cardiometabolic microRNA Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Katey Rayner, PhD, has been awarded the 2019 Daniel Steinberg Early Career Investigator Award in Atherosclerosis/Lipoproteins from the American Heart...
Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, artistic and scientific leadership in Canada
The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) has named University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s Dr. Jennifer Reed the recipient of its 2019 Young Investigator Award. Dr. Reed is director of the Exercise Physiology and Cardiovascular Health Laboratory, and a scientist in the Division of Cardiac...
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...
Dr. Kyoung-Han Kim will receive nearly one million dollars from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Spring 2024 Project Grant Program
Funding for Dr. Kyoung-Han Kim’s innovative research project will be delivered through the Ontario Research Fund and the Early Researcher Awards
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)...
Research conducted in the Bioengineering and Therapeutic Solutions (BEaTS) Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) has resulted in the development of a library of bioinspired molecules that can be assembled to mimic tissue structures similar to those found in humans.
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...
UOHI researchers have identified a stretch in the DNA sequence that increases risk of heart disease by up to 40 per cent regardless of other established risks such as cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes. The discovery could help identify people at high future risk for heart disease, enabling...
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...