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Official Twitter account of the Australasian Section of the International Society for Heart Research Visit https://t.co/UOYpEc70th
Joined October 2020
Next in our #ECIExcellence2025 series is Dr @ArinolaAkin, awarded an ISH Collaboration Exchange Scholarship! She will spend 4 weeks at North-West University in South Africa, contributing to childhood blood pressure screening and genomics research. Congratulations!👏
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Spotlighting Li for #ECIExcellence2025! ✨ Her first publication is out, an editorial on emerging therapies for Friedreich ataxia: https://t.co/yLPWW1Hn3D Now beginning her PhD on heart disease in Friedreich ataxia, investigating key gene targets. What a fantastic start!🧬
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For our next #ECIExcellence2025 nomination we have @osvaldoics from @VictorChangInst! We asked for 2 but received a long list of achievements in 2025 🤩 What a stellar year Osvaldo!
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**Call for abstracts** Abstract submissions open for CSANZ2026 in Sydney 6-9 August. https://t.co/NqTkoJcisM For those with carer/child responsibilities ISHR will be offering our carer award for ECIs to help cover extra costs to attend the conference. Details coming soon!
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Congratulations to our next #ECIExcellence2025 nominee, @rikeishm from Monash University, on launching his first clinical trial, GRAINS-BP! This study investigates how dietary fibres and SCFAs may lower blood pressure through the gut–brain axis.
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Our next #ECIExcellence2025 is a special one. We’re celebrating @LouiseSeeHoe for her outstanding contribution to the ECI Committee over the past 4 years, including 3 as co-chair. Thank you for your leadership, enthusiasm, and dedication. All the best for your next endeavor!
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Kicking off our #ECIExcellence2025 nominees we have @S_Dozic from Monash University! 🎉 Sanela developed a new protocol to isolate heart muscle cells from tiny tissue samples, enabling true biological replicates for proteomics and deeper insights into cardiotoxicity. ❤️🔬
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Research led by @DrDanDonner at @BakerResearchAu shows a new drug can reprogram the immune system following severe heart attacks to prevent inflammation and heart damage and promote repair. @ImplicitBio is now trialling the drug in heart attack patients.
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A new drug being trialled in heart attack patients could reprogram the immune system to prevent inflammation and heart damage following severe heart attacks and promote repair.
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🎉 As the year winds down, it's time to reflect and celebrate! In research, the work may never feel "done" but progress always happens. Whether it's a paper, a breakthrough, or a small lab win, we want to hear it. https://t.co/MnKspKmMh8
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The ISHR Australasia ECI Committee is accepting nominations of early career investigators (students all the way up to 8 years post-PhD) in the cardiovascular research field who have achieved someth...
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Congratulations to all our Australian ISHR members who have been awarded Heart Foundation grants!
Congratulations to our 2025 Heart Foundation funded researchers, who will share in $13.7 million to support 67 new cardiovascular research projects across Australia. 👏 Find out more about our newly funded researchers and their groundbreaking work. https://t.co/NEesR7Ehz4
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Please note you do not need to be an ISHR member to nominate or be nominated :) We want to celebrate all ECI cardiovascular researchers in our community!
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🫀 Excited to share our new study published this week in Nature Cardiovascular Research identifies a promising new therapeutic target for diabetic heart disease. 🔗 https://t.co/5c5xT6EDQq Funded by HRC & @MarsdenFund
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🎉 ECI Excellence 2025 nominations open 🎉 We are calling for nominations of ECIs (students → 8 yrs post-PhD) who achieved something excellent in 2025! ✅ Any achievement counts ✅ Self-nominations welcome ✅ Australasian only 📅 Deadline: 24 Nov 👉 https://t.co/hQ55DCUy87
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Elrod Lab at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine is seeking motivated Postdoctoral Fellows to join our team!
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Ever wondered how the analgesic agent you use may affect cardiac contraction? 🫀🔬 New work from Duursma et al. from @amsterdamumc looked into it! https://t.co/YBp82XYKpT
@JolandavanderV4 @PavlovicDavor @IshrMci @ISHR_ES @ISHR_NAS @ISHR_LAT @ISHR_AUS
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New work out in the from @UniofOxford looks into developing sex-specific human ventricular #electromechanical multiscale models. Given the importance of #biologicalsex in #CardiovascularHealth this could be a very important tool! https://t.co/sDYJ6Mbl0R
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Please help to repost ⏰⏰⏰ The Tong Lab @UTSWMedCenter is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join us in studying the molecular mechanisms of HFpEF and atrial fibrillation. Prior experience in cardiac pathophysiology, immunology and bioinformatics is preferred but not required.
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That’s a wrap on another fantastic #CSANZ ASM! Incredible heart research from across 🇦🇺 &🇳🇿 Congratulations to all the presenters, awardees and the council and ECI committee on an outstanding program See you in Sydney for #CSANZ2026 & ISHR🌎congress 2031 down under!!🦘
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Happening now! 🚨 Mechanisms & Preclinical Discovery in Mezzanine 1, with talks from Prof Mathias Francois, Dr James McNamara, Dr Melissa Reichelt, Dr Amy Hanna, and Dr Drew Neavin on gene therapy, heart health, and complex traits. 🔬💡#CSANZ2025
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