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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 04/06/2026

We recently launched our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) — an important step in our commitment to reconciliation and improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. www.victorchang.edu.... #Reconciliation #RAP #ClosingTheGap

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 22/05/2026

We’re proud to welcome former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to our Board. A significant addition, as we continue to accelerate heart research and translate discoveries into lives saved. Heart disease impacts every family and strategic leadership helps drive real change: www.victorchang.edu....

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 06/05/2026

Congrats to the 2026 NSW CVRN–VCCRI Research Innovation Grant winners Dr Poornima Ramamurthy, Dr Sarah E Hancock and Dr Jin Kirigaya🎉 Through our partnership with @nswcvrn.bsky.social, recipients gain access to our #InnovationCentre's world‑class facilities, technology and expertise.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 21/04/2026

We're thrilled to announce Elizabeth Paratz has been recognised as an emerging leader by Victorian Health Minister Ben Carroll at the Premier’s Awards for Health & Medical Research. A/Prof Paratz was a Clinical Research category finalist for her world-renowned sudden cardiac arrest research.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 14/04/2026

PaulKornerSeminar speaker fujian-wu.bsky.social from the Wong lab. Excited to present our lab’s research on how exercise reshapes molecular regulation in the ageing heart and why this matters for healthy cardiovascular ageing.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 14/04/2026

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr Dashika Palipana is establishing cardiac CMR in adult zebrafish to improve volumetric accuracy for diagnosing cardiomyopathies. This work, in collaboration with our Innovation Centre, advances 3D imaging for better translational cardiac research

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 10/04/2026

Congratulations Dr @sarahehancock.bsky.social on being awarded a Cancer Council grant to tackle one of the deadliest cancers, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Her team’s research is focused on improving the effectiveness of existing chemotherapy treatments for the disease,

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 11/03/2026

Interested in applying for a 2026 @nswcvrn.bsky.social–VCCRI Research Innovation Grant? Learn more about our Innovation Centre's technologies and capabilities on a guided tour. Meet our facility managers and explore how we can support your grant applications and collaborative CV research projects.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 09/03/2026

How do you repair the heart after a heart attack? It's the biggest challenge in cardiology and an Australia–Japan partnership led by the Institute's Prof Bob Graham aims to solve it by developing an innovative gene therapy to reactivate adult heart muscle cell division: www.victorchang.edu....

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 06/03/2026

Congratulations to spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) researcher Dr Lucy McGrath-Cadell who has just been awarded a grant from UNSW Medicine & Health💡

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr Yashutosh Joshi, who has received the NSW CVRN Ministerial Award for PhD Rising Star in Cardiovascular Research for his work with DCD heart transplantation and spider venom - continuously looking to improve number and quality of donor hearts.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 27/02/2026

Congratulations @osvaldoics.bsky.social on being awarded a MAWA/RFF Research Grant - supporting his project Animal Free Human Stem Cell Models to Investigate Congenital Heart Defects. Grateful to the MAWA Trust and the Rozzoli Family Fund for supporting this work.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 26/02/2026

Australia has incredible talent, but without sustained investment and long‑term certainty, we risk losing both people and progress. Supporting medical research isn’t optional — it’s essential for better health outcomes and future prosperity. www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 26/02/2026

Institute Deputy Director and newly appointed ACvA President, Prof Jamie Vandenberg led a powerful on-stage conversation w/ Syed Ahmed, whose personal story brought into sharp focus why cardiovascular research matters — not just in the lab, but for patients, families, and communities.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 12/02/2026

📢Applications for the 2026 @nswcvrn.bsky.social-VCCRI Research Innovation Grant have now opened! Partnering with CVRN, EMCRs have an exciting opportunity to access our Innovation Centre to support short-term projects focused on cardiovascular research: innovationcentre.org.au/funding-supp...

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/02/2026

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker @drellerye asks the question - could prevention be better than cure? Supported by @heartfoundationau.bksy.social and NHMRC her research is investigating the role of exercise and early drug therapy in Titin cardiomyopathy. Which would you choose?"

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 16/12/2025

Big win for #SCAD research! Congratulations to Dr Lucy McGrath-Cadell, who has been awarded a @theracp.bsky.social Research Establishment Fellowship to investigate why a subset of SCAD patients, in particular younger women and those with pregnancy-related SCAD, are at greater risk. #HeartDisease

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

💡Lastly Farzaneh Omikhoda’s funds will support conference presentations at NOTICE 2025 and MEC 2025, advancing insights in cardiac electrophysiology and mechano-electric coupling. A huge congratulations to all recipients and thank you to UNSW.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

💡Dr Osvaldo Contreras’s funds will allow for open access publication of “OpenEMMU: A versatile, open-source EdU multiplexing methodology for studying DNA replication and cell cycle dynamics” in iScience.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

💡Dr James Davies’s grant will enable him to present at the Mechanisms of Membrane Transport, Gordon Research Conference in Switzerland.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

💡Dr Emma Rath will be supported to present at the CSANZ 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting and for open access publication of “Atlantool: a command line tool to retrieve DNA and RNA sequencing reads from BAM files by the read identifier” in Bioinformatics Advances.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

💡Dr Dimuthu Alankarage’s funding will allow for the open access publication of “Haploinsufficient variants in SMAD5 are associated with isolated congenital heart disease” in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Dr Zijing Zhou on receiving a prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award! Only 13% of applications were funded nationally and Dr Zhou's is one of them.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 19/11/2025

He discussed the real-world impact of AI, including where it is already improving patient outcomes in cardiology; the journey from lab to clinic, what it takes to implement AI safely; the importance of building trust in AI tools among clinicians and patients; and his views on the next innovations.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 04/11/2025

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr Jordan Thorpe will be presenting: ‘Identifying New Therapeutic Approaches for Inflammatory Driven Atrial Fibrillation Utilizing Engineered Atrial Tissues’

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 31/10/2025

@nswcvrn.bsky.social Professional Development Awards were also granted to Dr Farhan Mohammed, Dr Audrey Adji, and Dr Emma Rath – supporting their ongoing research and professional growth.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 31/10/2025

Congratulations to our researchers on their recent funding success! Dr @ingridstacey.bsky.social based at our WA hub has been awarded a @heartfoundationau.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work improving cardiovascular health for First Nations communities.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 15/10/2025

When a heart stops, every minute counts. Learn CPR and you could save a life. Find out how: www.victorchang.edu.... #RestartAHeartDay

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 04/10/2025

Congrats to Dr Audrey Adji, who has been awarded the AMR Small Equipment Grant to help progress the Mind-Your-Heart study. The project is investigating how heart + blood vessel health contribute to brain ageing + cognitive decline - incl the progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/10/2025

💡A/Professor Dr Dr James Otton is using AI to transform routine heart scans into a powerful screening tool that could better predict heart attacks and strokes and make advanced heart screening affordable worldwide. Congrats to all involved. #MedicalResearch #HeartDisease

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/10/2025

💡Dr Vaibhao Janbandhu and his team are uncovering how heart valves become stiff and calcified - the root cause of valvular heart disease. By doing so they hope they can detect the disease earlier and develop preventative treatments.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/10/2025

💡 Dr Jeanette Villanueva and her team will test whether hearts from donors can be better preserved using temperature-controlled cold storage – work that could save more lives through transplantation.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 29/09/2025

Protein bars are booming - now a $22bn global industry. But are they any good for us? In his column for The Australian, our Director and cardiologist Professor@jasonkovac... warns that many bars are ultra-processed, high in salt, and unnecessary for most people: www.theaustralian.co...

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 29/09/2025

Make this #WorldHeartDay your annual reminder to take better care of your ❤️ Book a heart health ✅, go for brisk 🚶‍♂️, or cook a healthy 🥘 . With one Australian dying from heart disease every 28 mins, a simple act could help save your life: www.victorchang.edu.... @worldheart.org

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 10/09/2025

Most heart palpitations are harmless, the Institute’s Director and cardiologist, Professor @jasonkovacic.bsky.social, writes in The Australian Financial Review. But some signal a serious risk. He shares the key red flags we should not ignore www.afr.com/life-and...

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 08/09/2025

Is it worth tracking your blood sugar levels 24/7 if you're not diabetic? Professor Nigel Turner speaks with The Australian about whether continuous glucose monitors offer real benefits for non-diabetics or if they’re just the latest example of health data overload:www.theaustralian.co...

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/09/2025

While men are more likely to suffer heart attacks, women are more likely to die from theirs. It’s why we have developed our #Women in Science Giving Circle - a philanthropic program designed to keep women in heart disease research and pioneer gender-equal research: www.victorchang.edu....

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/09/2025

Did you know cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer of women worldwide? It's responsible for 30% of deaths in women each year – more than all cancers combined. It’s time to bust the myth that heart disease is a middle-aged male disease this #WomensHealthWeek: www.victorchang.edu....

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/09/2025

We're proud to share Dr Osvaldo Contreras has been awarded a Scale Biosciences Core Lab Grant, from @garvaninstitute.bsky.social Genomics Platform, Scale Biosciences, and Integrated Sciences to further his research into the origins of congenital heart disease that affects one in 100 babies.

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 28/07/2025

We're stepping into a critical debate about statins. Our Director and cardiologist, Professor Jason Kovacic, has penned a piece in The Australian defending their use and countering misinformation. Learn more about their benefits: www.victorchang.edu....

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 05/07/2025

As we celebrate the incredible milestone of 50 years of @NAIDOCWeek, we acknowledge the strength of young Indigenous leaders, the vision of Indigenous communities, and the legacy of Indigenous ancestors. #NAIDOC2025

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 17/06/2025

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Gabrielle Smith: 'In Regulatory Systems lab, I am studying chromatin architecture and the #epigenome of cardiomyocytes across multiple animals to understand how genome regulation and evolution have shaped #HeartRegeneration across vertebrates.' ‪@em6wong.bsky.social‬

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 10/06/2025

Today's #PaulKornerSeminar speaker Dr Yang Guo will be presenting: 'Investigating Piezo1-induced mitochondrial dynamics via super-resolution live cell imaging'

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/06/2025

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker ‪@stevemonger.bsky.social: "SAVViDB integrates the most important resources for diagnosing a pathogenic splice-altering genetic variant" @egiannoulatou.bsky.social

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 03/06/2025

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker Steven Monger ‪@stevemonger.bsky.social will be presenting: 'SAVViDB: a web-based visualisation tool for enhancing splice-altering variant prediction and interpretation' @egiannoulatou.bsky.social

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 22/04/2025

This #EarthDay we’re reminded of the urgent need to switch to renewable energy to minimise pollution, which has been found to be a greater health threat than that of war, terrorism, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, drugs and alcohol combined: www.victorchang.edu.... #OurPowerOurPlanet

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 07/04/2025

All of us here at the Institute stand with @aamri.bsky.social and its election asks. We need a better grant system that funds the full costs of research so we can continue to deliver lifesaving treatment and therapies to beat Australia’s biggest killer. #standupforscience2025 #Election2025

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 07/04/2025

Huge congrats to Prof Nigel Turner, Dr @sarahehancock.bsky.social + Dr @charlesdcox.bsky.social who’ve been awarded funding from NSW Health's CV Research Capacity Program for projects to target aortic stenosis, obesity + diabetes: www.victorchang.edu.... @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 01/04/2025

Our researchers can create 100s of millions of stem cells far faster thanks to a new bioreactor in our #InnovationCentre’s Stem Cell Production Facility, a partner site of Phenomics Australia NCRIS. It will also allow scientists to scale up stem cell-derived disease models. @MedResearchNSW

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · 25/03/2025

Star #Scientist Dr Christian Said is dedicated to producing a new range of devices that better allow the heart to recover and stop patients needing heart transplants. It's research that has recently seen Dr Said awarded a Fulbright Scholarship: www.victorchang.edu....

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