“Heart disease is Australia’s biggest killer. When combined with respiratory disease, 50% of all deaths are from cardiopulmonary causes. This frightening statistic is the reason why HMRI has a team dedicated to this area of research.”
Program Leader, Associate Professor Derek Laver
There are 40 researchers in the Cardiovascular Program, investigating cardiopulmonary control mechanisms at holistic, systemic, cellular and molecular levels.
The Cardiovascular Health Program explores human heart disease across several levels including the prevention, revascularisation, and quality of life for cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary disease patients.
The Program draws together scientists from many areas of clinical and scientific research, including: cardiopulmonary anaesthesia, medicine, surgery, neurology, pathology, human physiology, pharmacology, immunology, and nutritional biochemistry.
There are three research themes within the Cardiovascular Health Program. These include:
