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Public release date: 1-Oct-2011[ | E-mail |
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University of North Carolina School of Medicine
(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. A collaborative network of European and North American scientists, including from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, have been awarded a total of $6 million over five years to explore the biology of heart failure and to find new therapies for it.
The grant was awarded by Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program, headquartered in Paris, France. Fondation Leducq is a French non-profit health research foundation, which is designed to promote collaborative research involving centers in North America and Europe in the areas of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease.
"Proteotoxicity: an unappreciated mechanism of heart disease and its potential for novel therapeutics" is the title of this network's award-winning project. "Proteotoxicity" refers to potential health consequences due to the failure of cells to degrade and clear intracellular aggregated proteins. This may include misshapen or misfolded proteins that could, for instance, disrupt intracellular messages and impede chemical reactions.
"Recent discoveries suggest that the failure to clear aggregated proteins is a major factor in hereditary and acquired cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases," said Network of Excellence Core member, Cam Patterson, MD, MBA, Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Medicine and cardiology division chief at UNC. "This network is the first to harness the synergy between skeletal and cardiac muscle research in the emerging area of cardiac protein turnover and proteotoxicity by including experts in both fields."
The project's 3 main research aims are to (1) define the role of proteotoxicity in clinically relevant models of heart failure, (2) determine the networks of genes and gene products operating in cardiac muscle cell protein degradation and aggregation, (3) explore novel interventions to reduce and/or block proteotoxicity in animal models of cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Sharing the new award with Patterson at UNC are network members Jeff Robbins, PhD at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio; Mathias Gautel, MD, PhD at King's College in London, England; Lucie Carrier, PhD, at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Hamburg, Germany; Marco Sandri, MD, PhD at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine and University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and Joseph A. Hill, MD, PhD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Since 2004 when grants were first awarded under the Transatlantic Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research Program, 31 collaborative networks have been selected for Leducq support, representing more than 300 investigators at 115 institutions in 17 countries, with research interests spanning from heart failure to cerebral hemorrhage.
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Public release date: 1-Oct-2011[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Les Lang
llang@med.unc.edu
919-966-9366
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. A collaborative network of European and North American scientists, including from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, have been awarded a total of $6 million over five years to explore the biology of heart failure and to find new therapies for it.
The grant was awarded by Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program, headquartered in Paris, France. Fondation Leducq is a French non-profit health research foundation, which is designed to promote collaborative research involving centers in North America and Europe in the areas of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease.
"Proteotoxicity: an unappreciated mechanism of heart disease and its potential for novel therapeutics" is the title of this network's award-winning project. "Proteotoxicity" refers to potential health consequences due to the failure of cells to degrade and clear intracellular aggregated proteins. This may include misshapen or misfolded proteins that could, for instance, disrupt intracellular messages and impede chemical reactions.
"Recent discoveries suggest that the failure to clear aggregated proteins is a major factor in hereditary and acquired cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases," said Network of Excellence Core member, Cam Patterson, MD, MBA, Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Medicine and cardiology division chief at UNC. "This network is the first to harness the synergy between skeletal and cardiac muscle research in the emerging area of cardiac protein turnover and proteotoxicity by including experts in both fields."
The project's 3 main research aims are to (1) define the role of proteotoxicity in clinically relevant models of heart failure, (2) determine the networks of genes and gene products operating in cardiac muscle cell protein degradation and aggregation, (3) explore novel interventions to reduce and/or block proteotoxicity in animal models of cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Sharing the new award with Patterson at UNC are network members Jeff Robbins, PhD at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio; Mathias Gautel, MD, PhD at King's College in London, England; Lucie Carrier, PhD, at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Hamburg, Germany; Marco Sandri, MD, PhD at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine and University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and Joseph A. Hill, MD, PhD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Since 2004 when grants were first awarded under the Transatlantic Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research Program, 31 collaborative networks have been selected for Leducq support, representing more than 300 investigators at 115 institutions in 17 countries, with research interests spanning from heart failure to cerebral hemorrhage.
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