1998/99 Research Fellows


  • Alter, David A. (Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Center)
    Access to coronary angiography.
    Supervisor: Naylor, C. David

  • Asahi, Michio (Medical Research, University of Toronto)
    Sites of interaction between phospholamban and the cardiac calcium pump.
    Supervisor: MacLennan, David H.

  • Azzi, Mounia (Biochimie, Université de Montréal)
    Determinants moleculaires et specificite pharmacologique des agonistes inverses.
    Supervisor: Bouvier, Michel

  • Bachmaier, K. (Center for Cardiovascular Research, The Toronto Hospital)
    Genetic dissection of signaling pathways mediating apoptotic death in cardiac myocytes.
    Supervisor: Liu, Peter

  • Batchelor, Wayne B. (Cardiology, Duke University Clinical Research Institute)
    A comparison of U.S. and Canadian post-MI cardiac catheterization practice patterns in detecting severe coronary artery disease: Relationship between use and diagnostic yield.
    Supervisor: Califf, Robert M.

  • Bernier, Sylvie (Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
    Etude des effets de la phosphorylation de la eNOS sur sa regulation et ses fonctions intracellulaires.
    Supervisor: Michel, Thomas

  • Bianciotti, Liliana (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)
    Control of natriuretic peptide gene expression.
    Supervisor: de Bold, Adolfo J.

  • Borger, Michael, A. (Cardiovascular Research, The Toronto Hospital)
    Cerebral protection by insulin during cardiac surgery.
    Supervisor: Weisel, Richard D.

  • Boright, Andrew P. (Genetics, Robarts Research Institute)
    Genetic determinants of dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis.
    Supervisor: Tsui, Lap-Chee

  • Bouley, Richard (Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital)
    Etude du mecanisme de desensibilisation du recepteur V2 de la vasopressine et des interactions recepteur V2-proteines intracellulaires.
    Supervisor: Ausiello, Dennis

  • Chauhan, Vijay S. (Medicine, Duke University Medical Center)
    Electrophysiology of cardiac cells expressing the long QT mutant sodium channel.
    Supervisor: Grant, Augustus O.

  • Cho, Aesim (Pathology, University of Washington)
    Regulation of matrix metalloproteinases in smooth muscle cells.
    Supervisor: Reidy, Michael

  • Claing, Audrey (Medicine, Duke University)
    Intracellular redox, NO & post-transcriptioal regulation of vascular matrix genes
    Supervisor: Lefkowitz, Robert J.

  • Connors, Sean (Cardiology, Ottawa Heart Institute)
    The role of the coronary sinus as an electrical bridge in AV nodal.
    Supervisor: Tang, Anthony

  • Dufourcq, Pascale (Cardiovascular Research, Hospital for Sick Children)
    Apolipoprotein A1 and AML in the pathobiology of pulmonary vascular disease.
    Supervisor: Rabinovitch, Marlene

  • Fareh, Jeannette (Laboratory of Cell Biology, IRCM)
    Role of vasoactive peptides in cardiac hypertrophy.
    Supervisor: Thibault, Gaétan

  • Frank, Philippe G. (Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
    Role of caveolin in the development of coronary artery disease.
    Supervisor: Lisanti, Michael P.

  • Geelen, Peter G.J. (Médecine, Université Laval)
    Modulation par l'ischemie myocardique des effets electrophysiologiques des antiarythmiques de classe III.
    Supervisor: O'Hara, Gilles E.

  • Gratton, Jean-Philippe (Pharmacolgy, Yale University)
    Role of caveolin in endothelial nitric oxide synthase regulation.
    Supervisor: Sessa, William C.

  • Huang, Weei-Yuarn (Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
    Regulation of gene expression in load induced cardiac hypertrophy in vitro.
    Supervisor: Izumo, Seigo

  • Iihara, Koji (Neuroprotection Laboratory, The Toronto Hospital)
    Cellular mechanisms of brain protection by hypothermia and intravenous anesthetics.
    Supervisor: Tymianski, Michael

  • Ju, Haisong (Cardiovascular Research, Hospital for Sick Children)
    Elafin and novel MCP-like gene knockout mice: impact on vascular development and disease.
    Supervisor: Rabinovitch, Marlene

  • Kantor, Paul Fraser (Pharmacology, University of Alberta)
    Volume overload induced hypertrophy in the newborn piglet heart: functional and biochemical correlates.
    Supervisor: Lopaschuk, Gary D.

  • Laporte, Stéphane (Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center)
    The interactions of B-arrestins with proteins that regulate sequestration.
    Supervisor: Caron, M.G.

  • Lee, Agnes (Medicine, Hamilton Civic Hospitals)
    Modulation of fibrinolysis by the (DD)E complex.
    Supervisor: Weitz, Jeffrey I.

  • Li, Kai (Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital)
    Role of endothelin in the heart.
    Supervisor: Stewart, Duncan J.

  • Liaw, Patricia C.Y. (Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina)
    Plasma endothelin cell protein C receptor: structure, function, and mechanism of release.
    Supervisor: Esmon, Charles

  • Lu, Wei-Yang (Physiology, University of Toronto)
    Mechanisms for acute regulation of NMDA receptor functions by neuropeptides and sigma-ligands.
    Supervisor: MacDonald, John F.

  • MacKinnon, Colum D. (Neurology, University of London)
    Neurophysiological correlates and time course of cortical reorganization following stroke.
    Supervisor: Rothwell, John C.

  • Makinde, Abiola Olufemi (Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of British Columbia)
    Role of endothelin in the development of cardiac dysfunction in experimental diabetes.
    Supervisor: McNeill, John H.

  • McLeod, Anne G. (Hematology/Oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital)
    Analysis of conformation-specific Von Willebrand factor antibodies.
    Supervisor: Handin, Robert

  • Mehta, Shamir (Medicine, McMaster University)
    An international, prospective, randomized comparative trial of strategies of routine angiography and revascularization versus conservative therapy in acute myocardial ischemia without ST elevation.
    Supervisor: Yusuf, Salim

  • Methot, Danielle (Pathology, University of Washington)
    Function of the caspase pathway in cardiovascular death.
    Supervisor: Schwartz, S.M.

  • Munk, Andrew (Molecular Biology, Pasteur Institute)
    Regulation of alkali myosin light-chain gene expression.
    Supervisor: Buckingham, Margaret

  • Murdoch, Susan J. (Medicine, University of Washington)
    The role of PLTP in the transport of lipid from cells to HDL
    Supervisor: Albers, John Joseph

  • Ono, Yasuhiro (CHUM Research Center, Hotel-Dieu Pavillon)
    Evaluation of TNFa as a candidate gene of insulin resistance in hypertension.
    Supervisor: Hamet, Pavel

  • Ounpuu, Stephanie (Medicine, McMaster University)
    Inter-heart.
    Supervisor: Yusuf, Salim

  • Poitras, Marc Fernand (Neurology & Neurosci, John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
    MnSOD: A major defensive proteine in models of stroke.
    Supervisor: Dawson, Ted M.

  • Rigby, Alan (Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
    Structural studies of blood coagulation proteins.
    Supervisor: Furie, Bruce

  • Rivard, Alain (Cardiovascular Research, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center)
    Arterial gene therapy to accelerate re-endothelialization.
    Supervisor: Isner, Jeffrey

  • Santi Grau Perez, Celia M. (Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia)
    Molecular and functional analysis of cardiac L-type calcium channels.
    Supervisor: Snutch, Terrance P.

  • Sevigny, Jean (Immunology, Harvard Medical School)
    Role of ectoATP diphosphohydrolase in modulating xenograft rejection.
    Supervisor: Robson, Simon C.

  • Sheng, Jian-Zhong (Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary)
    Functional studies of the Na+/K+ pump in neonatal and adult mouse heart.
    Supervisor: Giles, Wayne R.

  • Smieja, Marek J. (Medicine, McMaster University)
    A case-control study of the association of Chlamydia pneumoniae and coronary atherosclerosis.
    Supervisor: Yusuf, Salim

  • Soubeyrand, Sebastien (Lipid Metabolism Laboratory, Ottawa Heart Institute)
    Adenovirus-medicated expression of human apolipoprotein A-! mutants in mice: In vivo analysis of structure-function relationship.
    Supervisor: Marcel, Yves L.

  • Spyracopoulos, Leonidas (Biochemistry, University of Alberta)
    Structure, dynamics and energitics of cardiac troponin C.
    Supervisor: Sykes, Brian

  • Sward, Karl H. (Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary)
    Regulation of smooth muscle contraction by calponin.
    Supervisor: Walsh, Michael P.

  • Takagi, Norio (Life Sciences, University of Toronto)
    The role of tyrosine phosphorylation, cerebral ischemia, signal transduction.
    Supervisor: Gurd, James W.

  • Tremblay, Eric (Laboratoire de développement et differenciation cardiaques, IRCM)
    Controle transcriptionnel de la diversification musculaire.
    Supervisor: Nemer, Mona

  • Vandenboom, Rene (Medicine, Toronto General Hospital)
    The role of K+ channel in the progression of heart failure.
    Supervisor: Backx, Peter H.

  • Whitman, Stewart C. (Medicine, University of Kentucky)
    The role inteferon gamma in atherosclerosis.
    Supervisor: Daugherty, Alan

  • You, Yongdong (Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University)
    Modulation of cardiac calcium current by intracellular calcium and magnesium.
    Supervisor: Pelzer, Dieter
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