Investigating new drugs that improve heart function

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 researchers: Associate Professor David Elliott & Dr James McNamara

Tissue of interest: Heart

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, is supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant number NNF21CC0073729​​