Guest Lecture Programme 2013-2014

 

Date Time Speaker Host
13/08/12 13.00 Professor Christopher Kennedy - Associate Professor, OHRI/Kidney Research Centre, Ottawa.   Novel models of diabetic nephropathy: with and without diabetes. 

Prof Rhian Touyz

04/09/13 13.00 Professor John Funder,  Prince Henry’s Institute, Monash University, Melbourne.  Why low dose mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists should be part of first line therapy in hypertension?

Prof Rhian Touyz

06/09/13 13.00 Dr Shiang Yong Lim, University of Melbourne.   Cardiac Tissue Engineer with Human Cell.

Dr Simon Kennedy

24/09/13 13.30 Professor Jean Baptiste Michel, INSERM Unit Hemostasis, Bio-engineering and Cardiovascular Remodelling, Paris.  New paradigm in human artheroma.

Dr NikoTzemos

04/10/13 13.30 Dr Adam Greenstein, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Manchester.  The role of perivascular adipose tissue in obesity related hypertension.

Prof RhianTouyz

07/10/13 13.00 Professor Nick Hastie CBE, FRS, FRSE, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh.  WT1 and mesenchyme regulation in Wilms’ tumor, development and tissue homeostasis.  PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE WILL BE HELD IN THE DAVIDSON BUILDING – ROOM 115

Dr Tom Van Agtmael

16/10/13 13.00 Professor Patrik Pagano,  Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh.  Title: TBC

Prof Rhian Touyz

29/10/13 13.00 Professor Bruce Griffin, University of Surrey. 'How does nutrition contribute to cardio-metabolic risk? Is it a sweet thing or a matter of fat?

Dr Dilys Feeman

07/11/13 13.00 Professor James Leiper, MRC Clinical Science Centre, Imperial College London. Endogenously produced inhibitors of nitric oxide synthesis. How important are they? Dr Ian Salt
11/11/13 13.00 Professor Strulovic, Weizmann Institute of Science.  Title: TBC

Prof Anna Dominiczak

21/11/13 13.00 (Joint ICAMS – 3I presentation) - Professor Tomasz Guzik, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Glasgow. Title: TBC   PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE WILL BE HELD IN THE WOLFSON MEDICAL SCHOOL – GANNOCHY SEMINAR ROOM 3 TBA
28/11/13 13.00 Dr Catherine Bagot, Consultant Haematologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary - 'The application of thrombin generation to thrombotic disease'

Dr Tom Van Agtmael

03/1213 13.00 Professor Markus Mohaupt, Division of Hypertension, University of Bern.  Aldosterone in pregnancy: New life to an old molecule.

Dr Christian Delles

19/12/13 13.00 Professor John McCarron, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.  Smooth muscle proliferation, Ca2+ signalling and mitochondrial dynamics in resistance arteries.

Prof John McMurray

09/01/14 13.00 Dr John Mercer, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Glasgow.  Mitochondrial dysfunction and bioenergetics in cardiovascular disease.

Prof Rhian Touyz

30/01/14 13.00 Dr Joost Leenders, ACS Biomarker, Maastricht.  Multi-microRNA profiles: the next generation biomarkers for heart failure. 

Dr Christian Delles

06/02/14 13.00 Dr Carel le Roux, Imperial College London.  Can gastric bypass reverse diabetic kidney disease?

Prof  Naveed Sattar

20/02/14 13.00 Professor Neil Bulleid, Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, Glasgow. Title: TBC

Prof Rhian Touyz 

27/02/14 13.00 Dr Richard Heads, King’s College London. Title: TBC Dr Tim Palmer
13/03/14 13.00 (Joint ICAMS – 3I presentation) - Professor David Harrison Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Title: TBC  PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE WILL BE HELD IN THE WOLFSON MEDICAL SCHOOL – HUGH FRASER SEMINAR ROOM 2. TBA
18/03/14 13.00 Professor Paul Riley, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford. Title: TBC

Prof Andrew Baker

27/03/14 13.00  Professor Jan Danser,  Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.  The unexpected consequences of too much renin inhibition: the kidney takes center stage.

Prof Rhian Touyz

28/03/14 13.00 Professor Deborah Lawlor, University of Bristol. Title: TBC

Prof Naveed Sattar

01/04/14 13.00 (Joint ICAMS – 3I presentation) – Speaker to be confirmed TBA
24/04/14 13.00 Professor Rodolphe Fischmeister, INSERM Unit 769 Paris. Control of cAMP signaling and excitation-contraction coupling by phosphodiesterases in normal and diseased heart.

Dr George Baillie 

01/05/14 13.00 Dr Jason Kovacic, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition: from cardiovascular development to disease.  

Profs  Andrew Baker/ Colin Berry

22/05/14 13.00 Professor Louise Kenny, University College Cork. Metabolomics and pre-eclampsia, biomarkers of adverse pregnancy outcome.

Dr Christian Delles

29/05/14 13.00 Dr Eyal Gotlieb, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research.  Title: TBC Prof Rhian Touyz
26/06/14 13.00 Professor Chris Thiermermann,  William Harvey Research Institute London.  Novel therapeutic approaches for ischaemia-reperfusion injury and shock. Dr Chris Loughrey
       
       
       
       
       

Contact: Dr Tom Van Agtmael (Tom.VanAgtmael@glasgow.ac.uk) for further information and/or if you would like to make arrangements to meet the guest lecturer (0141 330 6200).