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Abstracts
Heart Failure Congress 2010
Award Competition Results
The Philip Poole-Wilson Young Investigator Award in clinical research
Finalists:
- "Metformin in Insulin Resistant LV Dysfunction, A Double-blind, placebo controlled trial" AKF Wong (Dundee, UK)
- "Pressure-volume loop evaluation of CRT in end-stage heart failure. A comparison of patients with a narrow, intermediate and broad QRS complex" G.De Roest (Amsterdam, NL)
- "PRA is an independent prognostic factor across the entire spectrum of heart failure clinical status" G. Vergaro (Pisa, IT)
- "Beta blockers and pulmonary function in elderly patients with heart failure: insight from CIBIS-ELD" M Lainscak (Golnik, SLO)
Philip Poole Wilson Award RUNNER UP Winner:
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"Parvovirus B19 persists in normal and diseased hearts, but reactivates in failing hearts"
R.Dennert - University Hospital Maastricht , NL
"Viral heart disease may be a devastating disease often affecting young adults still in the prime of their life`s. My PhD work is to gain further insight into this disease, produce a better diagnostic capacity and, ultimately, provide novel therapeutic stategies for these patients. It was a great honor to be able to present my research at the Philip Poole-Wilson Young Investigator Award in clinical research where it acknowledged by expert peers as important in the field of clinical heart failure. Being awarded the runner-up has strengthened my ambition to further pursue a research career in this field."
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"Novel cardiac pacemaker-based human model of periodic breathing to develop real-time, pre-emptive technology for respiratory stabilisation"
Resham Baruah - St. Mary’s Hospital and Imperial College, International Centre for Circulatory Health – London UK
"ESC HF is the number meeting for those interested in heart failure in the world. It attracts the experts in heart failure trials and management from accross the globe giving a unique insight into optimum heart failure management and future directions within this field."
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The Helmut Drexler Young Investigator Award in Basic Science
Finalists
- "Hypophosphorylation of the stiff N2B titin isoform raises cardiomyocyte resting tension in failing human myocardium" A.Borbely (Debrecen, HU)
- "Myocardial phosphodiesterase 5 is increased in patients with severe aortic stenosis and contributes to left ventricular dysfunction in pressure-overloaded mice" S.Vandenwijngaert (Leuven, BE)
- "Modelling cardiac diseases with engineered heart tissue" A.Stoehr (Hamburg, DE)
- "Cardiotoxicity of bortezomib - the anticancer therapeutic agent" J. Bil Warsaw, PL)
Helmut Drexler Award Runner Up
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"microRNA-199 plays a key role in cardiac muscle growth and atrophy"
Dr. Arash Haghikia, MD - Hannover Medical School – Hannover DE
"In view of the numerous scientific sessions on latest advances in clinical heart failure research as well as in basic cardiovascular science, the HFA Meeting provides a great opportunity with enormous educational value for me as a young clinician with further interest in basic cardiovascular science to gather new insides and interchange ideas on current research activities. I`m very pleased having accepted my abstract for this year`s meeting and truly honoured having received the Runner Up Prize of the Helmut Drexler Young Investigator Award for Basic Science. In this regard, I`m already very excited and looking forward for the next year`s meeting in Gothenburg“.
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"Phosphorylation of syndecan-4 regulates activation of the pro-hypertrophic calcineurin-NFAT signalling pathway in the myocardium"
Ida Gjervold Lunde - Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway
"I chose to attend the HFA congress in Berlin 2010 because my research concerns experimental heart failure and as I have attended the meeting before, I knew I would appreciate the scientific programme as well as the atmosphere. My main interests concerning the HFA congress is basic science in heart physiology and heart failure, but of course also the clinical aspects. I really look foreward to the 2011 HFA congress in Gothenburg".
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The Nursing Investigator Award Session
Finalists :
- "Factors related to delay in seeking care after symptom onset in heart failure patients" M.Nieuwenhuis ( Gronningen, NL)
- "Self-rated health in elderly patients with heart failure: influence of beta-blocker titration" S.Inkrot (Berlin, DE)
- "The relationship between self-concept cognitive perception and adherence to prescribed therapeutic regimen in patients with heart failure" A.Heidary (Mashhad, IRAN)
Runner up:
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"Short-term follow up of a randomised study evaluating effects of education and psychosocial support to patients and their partners" A. Stromberg (Linkoping, SE)
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"Predictors of uncertainty in caregivers of patients with heart failure- A longitudinal study"
Nursing Investigator Award - WINNER -Karen Harkness RN CCN(C) PhD - McMaster University, CAN
Over the past few years, I have heard and read about exciting nurse-lead research involving heart failure populations from members of the European Society of Cardiology. Attending the HFA meeting provided me with the opportunity to learn about such research first hand, while also providing the opportunity to network with nurse scientists who have similar research interests as myself. I am very excited about the beginning international partnerships for future nurse-lead research between the HFA community and Canada that arose from attending the congress this year and look forward to solidifying such relationships with future innovative research endeavours.
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