ISOLATION, EXPANSION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN CARDIAC PROGENITOR CELLS.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/606586

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

At present there are limited treatment options for cardiac diseases such as heart failure. Stem cell research offers the opportunity to find new treatments for myocardial disease. We aim to isolate and expand cardiac cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and use them to simulate heart disease in the laboratory improve our understanding of cardiac disease. We hope that in future these cells will enable the discovery of drugs that alleviate the suffering associated with the disease.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $573,993.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cardiac failure | cardiac hypertrophy | cardiac progenitor cells | cardiology | cardiomyocyte | gene targeting | human embryonic stem cells | myocardial disease | stem cell therapy

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