Funding for heart disease
18 May 2009
An LJMU research team have been awarded €720,000 from the EU FP7 Collaborative Project Large Scale Integrating Project.
The team, led by Drs Georgina Ellison and Daniele Torella in the Stem Cell and Molecular Physiology laboratory within LJMU’s Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, is one of 14 partners, from 9 European countries, which make up the CARE-MI European Multidisciplinary Initiative Project.
The project focuses on devising novel and innovative therapeutic avenues for the repair and regeneration of the myocardium following heart disease or failure.
The Stem Cell and Molecular Physiology laboratory will focus on dissecting the key factors and molecules involved in the regulation of cardiac stem cell activation, growth and differentiation into new contracting heart muscle cells. The resulting data will inform the optimal design and development of innovative clinical myocardial regenerative therapies, which will be carried out by other partners in the consortium.
It is envisioned that this large-scale project will bring about regenerative therapies that are affordable, readily and widely available and easy to apply and compatible with the current clinical standard of cardiac care.
