Investigating new drugs that improve heart function (PROJECT CLOSED)
About the project:
The human heart contracts over 2 billion times during a person's life. The heartbeat is controlled by precise signals from the body. We have identified a protein that may have an important role in regulating the heartbeat. This protein controls other proteins inside a heart muscle cell by rapidly and directly changing them. This project will search for new drugs to improve heart function in patients with heart disease.
Lead researcher: A/Prof David Elliott
Investigators: Prof Enzo Porrello, Dr Sean Humphrey and Dr James McNamara
Tissue of interest: Heart
Proudly in partnership with
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, is supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant number NNF21CC0073729