Joint Meeting of the Bristol Heart Institute and the British Heart Foundation Bristol Accelerator Award

Hosted by the Bristol Heart Institute

The event will be showcasing the breadth of excellent cardiovascular research on-going in Bristol. This will encompass presentations across basic science, translational and clinical research, and population health, including many presentations from PhD students and early career researchers.

Programme:

09:00 Arrival, coffee, refreshments
09:30 Welcome and updates
10:00 Research showcase (part 1, 4 research talks)
11:00 Break
11:30 Research showcase (part 2, 4 research talks)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 EDI considerations including research toolkits
14:30 PhD flash presentations (15 presentations)
15:45 Break
16:00 Plenary talk

Talk topics include:

  • Repurposing the anti-cancer drug PD0325901 (MEK inhibitor) to rescue cardiac pericyte function and promote myocardial recovery after ischemia.
  • Bioengineering platelets for therapeutic purposes
  • Applied Cardiovascular Health Research
  • Dimension Reduction for Prediction of Bleeding/Ischaemia Risk
  • Harnessing human genetics to improve evidence on the effects of medication use in pregnancy
  • Assessing the impact of maternal glycaemia on pregnancy outcomes: a Mendelian Randomization study
  • A novel Hybrid Tissue Engineering Vascular graft for the correction of small-diameter artery obstruction
  • Rescuing defective trafficking of mutant channel complexes in the long QT syndrome

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