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