🔬 ACMM 2026 | Sydney | 20–22 May Join us for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting, featuring leading international & national speakers including Rushika Perera, Isaac Harris, Lisa Butler, Renea Taylor and more. 🧬 Abstracts close: 20 Apr 📝 Registration closes: 6 May 👉 www.acmm.au

📢Registrations are now open for CVRN–OHMR Grants Workshop 2026!! Join us on 7 May at NSW Ministry of Health (St Leonards)/Online for expert tips on crafting competitive Senior & ECR grant applications. Optional pitching sessions to follow. 🔗 shorturl.at/TSEZe

📢Applications are now open for the 2026 NSW CVRN Rural, Regional, Remote (RRR) Project Grant! Supporting RRR‑led cardiovascular research in NSW, EMCRs, and cross‑institutional collaboration. ⏰ Closes 5pm AEST, Mon 25 May 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/oE0ld

If you're working in the field of lipids, then be sure to follow my #LipidSky feed, which collects lipid-related skeets from the past 7 days. If you find it useful then please give it a like!

I am glad to be able to help this family to have their KCNH2 VUS reclassified to likely pathogenic by Blueprints KCNH2 Duplication Variant (c.2164_2181dup) Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death in a Family with Congenital Long QT Syndrome - Canadian Journal of Cardiology onlinecjc.ca/article/S082...

NSW CVRN Rising Stars March Seminar Join us to hear Dr Yashutosh Joshi (SVHS, @victorchang.edu.au) present his research: Improving Donor Heart Preservation With Spider-Venom Derived Peptide Hi1a 🗓️Thu 26 March |📷University of Sydney Register: shorturl.at/CAhTl

New group photos for 2026 just dropped. Glad to welcome plenty of new faces to the group!

Registration is open for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting (ACMM2026), taking place 20–22 May 2026 in Sydney. 🔬 🧪 www.acmm.au If you work in cancer biology, metabolism, oncology or translational research, we'd love to see you there!

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.

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....

Thinking of applying for the 2026 NSW CVRN–VCCRI Research Innovation Grant? Join a guided tour of the Victor Chang Innovation Centre. 📅 18 Mar | 1:00–2:30 pm 👉 RSVP now: forms.gle/G89NfAFDrFG9... @victorchang.edu.au

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

NSW CVRN Rising Stars March Seminar — registrations are open! Register now to hear from a fantastic line‑up of speakers. Attend in person on 26 March 2026 at the University of Sydney, 3:00–4:15 pm, followed by networking and refreshments. See you there 👉https://shorturl.at/CAhTl

**<1 week to go** Who else is guilty of waiting until the 11th hour? #CSANZ26 abstracts are closing THIS Wednesday. The ECI committee is already brewing up ideas for events alongside the impressive lineup of confirmed speakers so make sure you get your abstract in! www.csanzasm.com

Congratulations to Dr Yashutosh Joshi, Awardee of the 2025 Ministerial Award for PhD Rising Star in Cardiovascular Research! #NSWCVRN2026Showcase #cvdresearch @heartfoundationau.bsky.social @victorchang.edu.au

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.

🌈 HAPPY MARDI GRAS, SYDNEY! As our city came alive with colour, pride and celebration over the weekend, we’re also taking a moment to spotlight something that matters beyond the parade.

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.

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...

The Australian Cardiovascular Alliance (ACvA) Excellence in Cardiovascular Research Awards shine a light on the researchers whose work is driving progress against Australia’s biggest killer.

What do patients really think about genetic testing for atrial fibrillation (AF)? In collab with the @unimelb.edu.au, that’s the question our new study set out to answer — bringing fresh insight into the consumer perspective, an increasingly important part of our cardiac research.

📢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...

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker hallychen110.bsky.social#PaulKornerSeminar "Today, many drugs were banned, due to acquired Long QT Syndrome and sudden death by blocking human ether-á-go-go related gene (hERG) channel, and new drugs must be tested for next approvals.

#PaulKornerSeminar speaker @drellerye#PaulKornerSeminarasks 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?"

Additionally, the functional evidence for 275 SCN5A variants from our recent SCN5A automated patch-clamp study is now accessible in ClinVar.

Registrations for the #Lipidomics #GRC close soon. Don't miss this chance to learn from and engage with leaders in the field #TeamMassSpec 🧪 www.grc.org/lipidomics-c...

LAST CALL: Apply to present at the 2026 NSW CVRN Rising Stars Seminar Series — a platform for EMCRs & final-year PhD students to showcase research and connect across disciplines. 📌 Seminars: March, May, July & September 📅 EOI Deadline: 27 Jan 2026 👉https://forms.office.com/r/SynscC4W5g

Just Announced 📣 From 12–14 November 2026, the @worldheart.org and the Heart Foundation will unite global experts, advocates, and communities in Perth for the 2nd World Congress on Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) to accelerate solutions to end RHD.🌏 www.heartfoundation.org.au/media-releas...

WHF, @escardio.bsky.social, @americanheart.bsky.social and @accintouch.bsky.social have issued a joint call to address environmental threats as major, yet preventable, causes of cardiovascular disease: worldheart.org/news/global-societies-unite-to-address-environmental-threats-to-heart-health/

I’m back here to share our new pre-print! 🔬 🧬 😃 Proteo-transcriptomics and morphometrics of teleost cardiac cells define regulatory networks and exercise-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and hyperplasia Flow cytometry+Imaging+RNA-seq+Proteomics Preprint available on bioRxiv [link in comments]

A new study from researchers from the Institute and St Vincent’s Hospital shows cardiac MRI can detect heart transplant rejection by tracking heart movement. The non-invasive approach could reduce the need for repeated biopsies: www.victorchang.edu.... #MedicalResearch #HeartDisease #HeartTransplant

#SCADheart #MedSky #CardioSky #gVasc

World-first human trials now underway for a heart drug made from K'gari funnel-web spider venom which could transform how heart attacks and strokes are treated. We're proud to help bring this breakthrough closer to saving lives: www.victorchang.edu.au/news/spiderv... #HeartDisease #HeartAttack

📣 2026 Heart Foundation research funding: save these key dates! We support innovative cardiovascular research from discovery to real world impact. If you or your team plan to apply in 2026, here are the application windows: 🔗 Details & guidelines: www.heartfoundation.org.au/research/res...

Apply to present at the 2026 NSW CVRN Rising Stars Seminar Series — a platform for EMCRs & final-year PhD students to showcase research and connect across disciplines. 📌 Seminars: March, May, July & September 📅 EOI Deadline: 27 Jan 2026 👉 Submit here: forms.office.com/r/SynscC4W5g

Super thrilled to have this one accepted at AnalChem last week. Nice way to see out the end of the year. 🎉 #lipidomics #TeamMassSpec

🎉 We are pleased to announce @sarahehancock.bsky.social's latest publication in Analytical Chemistry: "Epoxidation-Enhanced Charge-Switch Derivatization for Rapid Profiling of Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Isomers" Read the paper here 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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

Celebrating Dr Banks (@jasmineleighb.bsky.social) and Dr Govindäraj (@hemnaphd.bsky.social) who graduated last Friday! 👩🏻‍🎓 🎉 Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!

Very surprised to have been awarded the best student talk for the Paul Korner Seminar Series at the VCCRI! Definitely ending the year on a high note! ☺️

The ECI Committee is happy to announce that the Carer Award will be offered again in 2026 for ECIs planning to attend CSANZ2026 in Sydney. Details on eligibility and to apply ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Deadline: 2 March (same as abstract submission).

Star #Scientist @osvaldoics.bsky.socia is uncovering how hearts grow - and what goes wrong when they don’t. He's mapping the molecular ‘blueprint’ of heart cells to uncover the mechanisms that could one day help damaged hearts repair themselves:

Your research has the power to save lives. An American Heart Research Awards gives you the support to make it happen. Applications are open!

Apply to present at the 2026 NSW CVRN Rising Stars Seminar Series — a platform for EMCRs & final-year PhD students to showcase research and connect across disciplines. 🗓 Seminars: March, May, July & September 📅 Deadline: 27 Jan 2026 👉 Submit your EOI: forms.office.com/r/SynscC4W5g

Thank you for the highlight @ishr-aus.bsky.social 🙏🏼❤️

We’re delighted to celebrate several team members who have been awarded UNSW CVMM (Cardiac, Vascular & Metabolic Medicine) Research Dissemination Top-up Grants.

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.

Thank you @amglazer.bsky.social for the exciting opportunity to collaborate! Since then, we've provided functional evidence supporting the VUS reclassification in children with abnormal sodium #ionchannel function at Sydney Children’s Hospital.

**Call for abstracts** Abstract submissions open for CSANZ2026 in Sydney 6-9 August. csanzasm.com/abstracts/ca... For those with carer/child responsibilities ISHR will be offering our carer award for ECIs to help cover extra costs to attend the conference. Details coming soon!

For our next #ECIExcellence2025 nomination we have Osvaldo from @victorchang.edu.au! We asked for 2 but received a long list of achievements in 2025 🤩 What a stellar year Osvaldo!