The Centenary Institute is working across a range of projects to improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with cardiovascular disease. The ageing population, increasing levels of obesity, lack of physical activity and the increasing number of Australians living with diabetes, will all contribute to the significant impact cardiovascular disease has on the community. Some of the projects Centenary Institute have been working on include:
- Investigating how biological signals communicate between and within cells, and how they go awry leading to the development of human diseases such as heart disease
- The identification of new gene abnormalities in patients with heart disease, to understand the basis of how these gene mutations lead to disease
- Understanding of the function of endothelial cells and the genes that are critical to the different processes, expanding the potential ways we can influence their activity and targets for drug development