The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm. Thursday 5th December 2013 Speaker 1: Calvin Chin - the role of myocardial fibrosis in patients with aortic stenosis Speaker 2: Yolanda Sourgia-Koutraki - Visualisation of inflammatory induced R2* changes in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Thursday 28th November 2013 Speaker 1: Lyam Hollis - Magnetic Resonance Elastography as a Method of Measuring the Stiffness of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Speaker 2: Paul Hindle - Development of the ovine perivascular stem cell model for articular cartilage repair Thursday 21st November 2013 Speaker 1: Monica Opiyo - The role of glucocorticoid metabolism in bile acid homeostasis Speaker 2: Tracy Mak - Hormonal mediators of the Metabolic Syndrome following disruption of 5∝-reductase 1 Thursday 14th November 2013 Speaker: Jessica Ivy Title: Glucocorticoids and renal sodium transport: implications for hypertension and salt-sensitivity Thursday 7th November 2013 Speakers: Adam Pawson, Helen Benson, Elena Faccenda & Joanna Sharman. Title: The IUPHAR database and Guide to PHARMACOLOGY portal: recent developments Thursday 24th October 2013 Speaker 1: Geoff Culshaw: The role of endothelin in the renal handling of salt in diabetic nephropathy Speaker 2: Khulan Batbayar: Profiling the glucocorticoid programming model: tales of brain and body Thursday 10th October 2013 Speaker 1: Susan Gallogly: Isolation and characterisation of endothelial outgrowth cells from the coronary arteries of patients with acute myocardial infarction Speaker 2: Sana Maqsood: Cardiomyocyte cell-cell junctions during cardiac development Thursday 3rd October 2013 Speaker 1: Manu Verma - Role of 11β-HSD1 in regulation of HPA axis activity and brain energy homeostasis during inflammation Speaker 2: Holly Stott - Imaging Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 in Vascular Remodelling Using a Labelled Inhibitor Thursday 26th September 2013 Speaker 1: Mark Miller - Introduction to CPR Talks Speaker 2: Zhenguang (James) Zhang - In vivo role of macrophage 11beta-HSD1 in arthritis and angiogenesis All welcome. Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
