Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

08/07/2025

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07/23/2025

🫀 TRCHR 10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium registration is open!

Join us as we celebrate a decade of healthier hearts and bring together leading clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience for:
✨ A look back at 10 years of HF breakthroughs
🔬 Collaborative research spotlights from SickKids, UHN & U of T
🛠️ Workshops + expert panels
🤝 Social hour & networking

🎟️ FREE for SickKids, UHN & U of T staff (with a promo code)

🙌 FREE for patients, caregivers & families - DM or email communications@tedrogersresearch.ca

Register today: https://tedrogersresearch.ca/symposium/

07/15/2025

Applications for the Lab2Market Health: Validate Winter 2026 Cohort are now open!

Are you a graduate researcher looking to take your innovation beyond the lab? Lab2Market Validate is a four-month program designed to help research teams evaluate the commercial potential of their technology while gaining essential entrepreneurial skills to successfully bring their innovation from the lab to the marketplace.

You’ll get access to:

🚀 $10,000 in funding
🚀 Product-market fit assessment
🚀 A world-class curriculum delivered by innovation leaders
🚀 Best-in-class advisors, industry experts, and funders
🚀 A vast entrepreneurial network and community

Apply now and turn your research into real-world impact: https://www.lab2market.ca/validate

07/03/2025

🚨 NEW Publication 🚨

🎉 Congratulations to Amika Shah, 2023 recipient of the Ted Rogers Centre Education Fund, on her recent publication in the BMJ Open!

Her study explores a critical issue in cardiovascular care: access to mental health support for people living with heart failure. Through interviews with patients, clinicians, and researchers, Amika uncovered key barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need.

Her findings offer a powerful case for more integrated, patient-centred mental health services within heart failure care.

📄 Read the paper here: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e098866

07/01/2025

06/26/2025

🫀 In May, the Heart Hub launched "A Heart's Journey: A Patient & Caregiver Guide to Heart Transplant" – a new interactive guide for heart transplant patients and their loved ones, created in collaboration with the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Ajmera Transplant Centre.

This easy-to-navigate resource walks you through every stage of the transplant journey—from assessment to recovery—offering expert insights, helpful tools, and most importantly, real stories from those with lived experience.

🎥 Meet Michelle, a double heart transplant recipient whose journey began after a spontaneous coronary artery dissection following the birth of her son. In her video, Michelle shares the emotional weight of the process, the power of support, and her deep gratitude for her donors and their families.

▶️ Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVnAa1binZY

Meet Michelle, a double heart transplant recipient. Michelle’s journey began when she experienced a spontaneous coronary artery dissection shortly following ...

06/16/2025

When Harper was just four years old, she was tethered to a machine the size of a dishwasher - her lifeline while waiting for a heart transplant. But with that lifeline came indefinite hospitalization and life in limbo.

🎧 In the latest episode of the "SickKids VS Podcast," learn how a new study explores the complex emotions and impact for families surviving in this uncertain space: https://www.sickkidsfoundation.com/podcast/mechanical_hearts

Most big breakthroughs start with a simple question. In the new season of SickKids VS, we take you behind the scenes of remarkable stories wherein each episode researchers ask questions like: Can we heal the brain? How should we talk to kids about dying? And what can doctors do when a child’s dise...

06/06/2025

That's a wrap!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our ✨refreshed✨ Professional Development (PD) Day - from our keynote and panel speakers to our hands-on workshop leaders, mock interview volunteers, and of course, the engaged attendees who made the day a success.

It was energizing to see our community of trainees, researchers, and early-career professionals come together to explore topics like AI in health research, career pathways, and skill-building for the future.

06/05/2025

🚨 NEW Publication 🚨

In stem cell research, the tools we use shape our outcomes, and those tools often don’t reflect the world’s genetic diversity, so the treatments we develop may fall short for many communities.

A new commentary led by Dr. James Ellis (Senior Scientist at SickKids) with colleagues in Kyoto and San Diego, calls for a more inclusive approach to induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines used to model disease and test therapies.

Reference iPSC lines are used to benchmark experiments and test new drugs or cell-based therapies. If these lines don't represent genetic diversity, the treatments built on them may not be effective for underrepresented populations.

With deep roots in Canadian science and global collaboration, Dr. Ellis and colleagues are pushing for a new standard: one that includes well-characterized, diverse iPSC lines reflective of the world’s population.

Read more and find the publication here: https://ow.ly/Hauj50W4Ipa

06/02/2025

05/29/2025

To mark a decade of innovation and impact, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is accepting nominations for the Best Cardiovascular Science of the Decade Awards!

These prestigious awards will recognize the most influential research published over the past ten years across three categories:

🔬 Basic Science
🩺 Clinical Science
🔄 Translational Science / Invention

This is your chance to celebrate cutting-edge work from across the TRCHR community. Nominate a peer - or yourself - for this rare and distinguished recognition.

🗓 Nominations close: June 15, 2025
🏅 Winners announced at our 10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium

Submit a nomination: tedrogersresearch.ca/best-cardiovascular-science-awards

05/22/2025

🎓 Join us in celebrating the graduation of our 2025 ECHO Discovery cohort!

Six teams from this year’s ECHO Discovery program will pitch their innovative cardiovascular health solutions to a multi-sectoral judging panel for a chance to win $500. Then, we will hear from Drs. Heather Ross and Joseph Cafazzo to learn about Medly – a remote heart failure care powered by software and artificial intelligence.

🗓 Thursday, June 5, 2025
🕙 10 AM – 12 PM ET
📍 Zoom | Register now: https://ow.ly/qkY750VSSqM