Members

Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (NSW)

Director: Professor Robert Graham
Deputy Director: Professor Richard Harvey

Principal Affiliations
University of New South Wales
St Vincent's Hospital

Principal Areas of Research
Developmental Biology
Molecular Cardiology
Gene Regulation
Electrophysiology & Biophysics
Cardiac stem cell

Major Current Research
Pathways for cardiac development

Molecular genetics of congenital heart diseases

Inherited cardiomyopathies

Molecular and genetic paradigms of striated muscle development

Role of epigenetics and epimutations in disease pathophysiology

Structure and function in G-Protein-coupled receptors and signalling|

Genetically engineered models of heart disease and their phenotypic anaylsis

Ion channel physiology and structure

Mechanisms of translation

Cardiac mechanics

Organ preservation in transplantation

Crystallographic structures of ion motive ATPases and transglutaminases