Researcher investigating the molecular basis for heart disease @unimelbMDHS. Social Media Editor for @JMCCardiology. All views my own.
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🚨New paper out in Circ Res! Congrats to 1st author DR @OmarBritoStrada & the team👏🏼Here we show DWORF gene therapy boosts cardiac calcium handling, enhances mitochondrial energetics, & protects against heart failure progression🫀💪🏼
Read it here 😍👇🏼
doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.1…
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New work out in the from @UniofOxford looks into developing sex-specific human ventricular #electromechanical multiscale models. Given the importance of #biologicalsex in #CardiovascularHealth this could be a very important tool!
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
3 Sep 2025
🫀 A healthy heart requires intricate crosstalk between different cell types to keep it functioning well. We shall explore these interactions over the next two days at #HeartCrossTalk2025 @unibirmingham.
View today's line up of speakers and topics ⬇️ buff.ly/ZqCSNzT
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
28 Aug 2025
📢 Call for Abstracts – AuPS 2025!
Abstract submissions for Free Communication and Poster Sessions are now OPEN!
Share your research with the physiology community at Western Sydney University, Parramatta, from 23–26 November 2025.
Submission Deadline: 5 PM (AEST), 12 September
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
28 Aug 2025
Very happy to share our passion for Cardiac Ryanodine Receptors!
Interplay Between Ryanodine Receptor Arrangement and Function: Implications for (Patho)physiological Control of Calcium Release | Circulation Research ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
29 Aug 2025
Manuel Mayr discusses systems biology & multiomics in #cardiovascular research including his latest #CardiovascularResearch article
Discover more here: academic.oup.com/cardiovascr…
#ESCCongress #omics #CVD #CardioTwitter
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
26 Aug 2025
Fresh off the press! 🚨 Our latest study on blebbistatin’s effects on EC coupling is now online in @JPhysiol. Huge congratulations to @izzy_sob and Katharina Ritzenhoff for their outstanding work!
🔗 doi.org/10.1113/JP287545
@pharmaumg @aiste_liutkute @funshofaks @WillSeibertz @davidaeisner @MBExC_de @dzhk_germany @YoungDZHK @EWGCCEChair
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That's a wrap for CSANZ 2025 in Brisbane! We had the fantastic opportunity to catch up with NSW CVRN members, see their work, promote the CVRN and generally network, collaborate, and learn about all the amazing cardiovascular research being done around Australia/globally.
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
18 Aug 2025
That’s a wrap on another fantastic #CSANZ ASM! Incredible heart research from across 🇦🇺 &🇳🇿
Congratulations to all the presenters, awardees and the council and ECI committee on an outstanding program
See you in Sydney for #CSANZ2026
& ISHR🌎congress 2031 down under!!🦘
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
16 Aug 2025
Such an honour to give the inaugural Winifred G Nayler Lecture at #CSANZ2025 and ISHR. Thank you to so many researchers & students who have worked with me over the last 20 years. Could not have done it without you! @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS @BakerResearchAu @HRIAust
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
16 Aug 2025
Mechanisms and Preclinical Discovery: ISHR Student Investigator Finalists session. Great presentations! Well done 👏 #CSANZ2025 @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS @BakerResearchAu @DoanNgo4
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16 Aug 2025
Awesome science at the Mechanisms and Preclinical Discovery: ISHR Student Investigator Finalists session! Super impressed by all the student presentations 👏 #CSANZ2025
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Really proud of Fairooj Rashid from my group presenting her spatial biology work as a finalist for the Ralph Reader young investigator prize at #CSANZ2025 @thecsanz @wimr @Sydney_Uni
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Ralph Reader Prize Session: Basic and Translational Science. Great presentations by all speakers. 👏 #CSANZ2025 @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS @jameschong_doc @AnastasiaSMihai #Discovery #PreclinicalScience
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
14 Aug 2025
An honour to hear Professor Bryan Williams deliver the #CSANZ2025 RT Hall Lecture. 🌟 One of the world’s leading authorities on hypertension and cardiovascular medicine, Professor Williams shared fascinating insights into targeting aldosterone to prevent and treat CVD. 🫀
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Great to see so much interest in the posters! All abstracts in Heart Lung & Circulation (August issue) @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS #CSANZ2025 @AnastasiaSMihai
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Prof Francine Marques- Understanding gene-by-environment interactions that dictate blood pressure response to food. Combining #fundamental & #ClinicalResearch 🧬 #Microbiome #RiskFactor #BloodPressure #RiskPrediction #csanz25 @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS @FZMarques 👏
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Great panel discussion- Mechanisms and Preclinical Discovery: Big data and artificial intelligence in cardiovascular disease #CSANZ2025 @thecsanz @ISHR_AUS #AI #CVD
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Thanks to our fantastic panellists and audience for a dynamic discussion on Big Data & AI in cardiovascular disease at #CSANZ2025 💡🫀Insightful, thought-provoking, and a glimpse into the future of cardiology. @n_palpant @k8weeks @DrDanDonner
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Dr Kate Weeks retweeted
15 Aug 2025
ECI finalist Janice Reid is mapping the functional and transcriptional landscape of heart signalling using ligand screening in human cardiac organoids 🫀🧪 #CSANZ2025
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