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Doctoral Thesis: June 3, 2020
MSc Arne Olav Melleby will be defending his thesis: “Cardiac remodeling responses to increased afterload: Roles and regulation of cell surface proteoglycans and integrins” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Principal Supervisor: Ida Gjervold Lunde, University of Oslo.
Given topic: “The COVID19 pandemic - implications for translational cardiovascular research”.
Trial lecture: June 3, 2020 9:15 AM
Public Defence: June 3, 2020 11:15 AM
Digital Trial Lecture and Public Defence will be held as a video conference over Zoom.
Doctoral Thesis: May 4, 2020
MSc Sabrina Bech Mathiesen will be defending her thesis:
“Exploring intracellular connections of syndecan-2 and -4 in the heart” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Given topic: “Proteoglycans in Cardiac Disease”.
Trial lecture: May 4, 2020 10:15 AM
Public Defence: May 4, 2020 12:15 PM
Digital Trial Lecture and Public Defence will be held as a video conference over Zoom.
Principal Supervisor: Researcher Cathrine Rein Carlson, University of Oslo
Latest publication (April 2020)
Raffaele Altara; Gustavo J. J. da Silva; Michael Frisk; Francesco Spelta; Fouad Zouein; William E. Louch; George W. Booz and Alessandro Cataliotti
Cardioprotective Effects of the Novel Compound Vastiras in a Preclinical Model of End-Organ Damage
Read the article in Hypertension
Hypertension. 2020;75:1195-1204. DOI: 10.1161/ HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.14704
Latest publication (March 2020)
Kiarash Tazmini, Michael Frisk, Alexandre Lewalle, Martin Laasmaa, Stefano Morotti, David B. Lippsett, Ornella Manfra, Jonas Skogestad, Jan Magnus Aronsen, Ole M. Sejersted, Ivar Sjaastad, Andrew G. Edwards, Eleonora Grandi, Steven A. Niederer, Erik Øie and William E. Louch
Hypokalemia promotes arrhytmia by distinct mechanisms in atrial and ventricular myocytes
Read the article in Circulation Research
Circulation Research. 2020;126:889–906. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315641
Doctoral Thesis: March 12, 2020
MSc Naiyereh Mohammadzadeh will be defending her thesis “Roles of the proteoglycans lumican and fibromodulin in cardiac remodeling following pressure overload” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Given topic: “Atrial fibrillation: Pathophysiological mechanisms and treatment options”.
Trial lecture: Mar. 12, 2020 10:15 AM
Public Defence: Mar. 12, 2020 1:15 PM
Venue: Auditorium røntgenavdelingen, Ullevål sykehus, Bygg 6 - Midtblokken
Principal Supervisor: Professor II Theis Tønnessen, University of Oslo
Doctoral Thesis: March 4, 2020
Cand.med. Åsmund Treu Røe will defend his thesis "Heart failure beyond global systolic dysfunction – active, passive and regional mechanisms of diastolic dysfunction" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Given topic: "Advantages, disadvantages and alternatives to left ventricular ejection fraction measurements"
Trial lecture: Mar. 4, 2020 11:00 AM
Public Defence: Mar. 4, 2020 1:00 PM
Principal Supervisor: Professor II William Edward Louch, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
Venue: Møterom IEMF (room 0704025) , Building 7, 4th floor,
Institutt for eksperimentell medisinsk forskning, Oslo universitetssykehus HF, Ullevål, Kirkeveien 166
Doctoral Thesis: February 13, 2020
MSc Andreas Romaine will defend his thesis "Proteoglycans and integrins as keyregulators of cardiac remodelling in response to increased left ventricular afterload" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Given topic: Mechanisms of hypertension as pathogenic factor in cardiovascular disease.
Trial lecture: Feb. 13, 2020 10:15 AM
Public Defence: Feb. 13, 2020 1:15 PM
Venue: Auditoriet 1 et., Kreftsenteret (bygning 11), Ullevål sykehus, Kirkeveien 166
Supervisor: Professor II Geir Christensen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Latest publication (February 2020)
Naiyereh Mohammadzadeh; Arne Olav Melleby; Sheryl Palmero; Ivar Sjaastad; Shukti Chakravarti; Kristin V. T. Engebretsen; Geir Christensen; Ida G. Lunde and Theis Tønnessen
Moderate loss of the extracellular matrix proteoglycan lumican attenuates cardiac fibrosis in mice subjected to pressure overload
Read the article in Cardiology
PM:31968347. DOI: 10.1159/000505318
Young Investigator Award
Karoline Bjarnesdatter Rypdal has been awarded Runner Up in the YIA Poster Competition at the ESC Heart Failure Winter Meeting in Les Diablerets, January 2020.
Among more than 150 contesters, she presented the abstract: "The secreted glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 is up-regulated in heart failure and directs anti-fibrotic signalling in cardiac fibroblats"
Congratulations for the Young Investigator Award!
Latest publication (January 2020)
Emil K S Espe, Jan M Aronsen, Einar S Nordén, Lili Zhang and Ivar Sjaastad.
Regional Right Ventricular Function in Rats: A Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method for Measurement of Right Ventricular Strain
Read the article in American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol , 318 (1), H143-H153 2020 Jan 1
PMID: 31774693 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00357.2019
Doctoral Thesis: December 6, 2019
Cand.med. Fadila Telarevic Cero will defend her thesis “Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Dysfunction; The Role of Inflammasomes and related Cytokines” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Given topic: "Heart failure in COPD - mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment."
Trial lecture: December 6, 2019 10:15 AM
Public Defence: December 6, 2019 1:15 PM
Venue: Auditorium 1, Kreftsenteret, Bygg 11, Oslo universitetssykehus, Ullevål, Kirkeveien 166
Supervisor: Professor II Ole Henning Skjønsberg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Super-resolution and Confocal Microscopy
Our institute is one of the nodes in a core facility for super-resolution and confocal microscopy supported by Helse Sør-Øst. This core facility includes two additional nodes located at Radiumhospitalet (Montebello) and Rikshospitalet (Gaustad).
A core facility is a laboratory with particularly advanced equipment that serves researchers both within and outside the unit.
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Core Facility Super-resolution and Confocal Microscopy, Ullevål
K. G. Jebsen Centre for Cardiac Research at University of Oslo
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Cardiac Research is directed by Professor Ivar Sjaastad: "Our primary objective is to better understand the mechanisms of heart failure. Specifically, we will identify mechanisms regulating myocardial stiffness, and new therapeutic targets of diastolic dysfunction."
The centre comprises six research groups at University of Oslo; of which three are located at Ullevål Hospital, two at Rikshospitalet and one at Radiumhospitalet.
Group leaders: Ivar Sjaastad (Centre leader), Geir Christensen, (Deputy leader), William E. Louch, Camilla Raiborg, Thor Edvardsen and Lars Gullestad
Associated partners: Alessandro Cataliotti, Llewelyn Roderick (University of Cambridge), Joakim Sundnes (Simula) and Kjetil Taskén
Administrative coordinator: Emil Espe
Read more about the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Cardiac Research
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