🚨 Registration is open for our 11th Annual Heart Failure Symposium! Join us for a day of keynotes, a poster session, an interactive workshop, and insights from people with lived experience, exploring new targets, tools, and treatments in heart failure care. 🔗 tedrogersresearch.ca/symposium/

Earlier this year, a team of TRANSFORM HF members headed north to explore key research priorities with our partners at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority & local community members, spanning questions from technology-enabled care tools to environmental monitoring. ⬇️

📢 ECHO Applications Close in Less Than a Week! 📢 The deadline to apply for this year's program is August 3rd. Don’t miss your last chance to accelerate your #healthinnovation with expert support and up to $100K in funding. Apply now or learn more: rhse.temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/ECHO

📣 Good news: the deadline for the Heart Failure Symposium call for abstracts has been extended to August 10th. If you've been meaning to submit, now's your chance! Learn more: tedrogersresearch.ca/symposium/su... 🫀

Designed to spark new partnerships, our Collaboration Starter Grants provide crucial early-stage funding for research & project proposals. 👋 Meet TRANSFORM HF's 2026 Collaboration Starter Grant recipients who are working to advance equitable heart failure care: transformhf.ca/novel-paths-...

Novel Paths to Equitable Cardiac Care - TRANSFORM HF

Designed to spark new partnerships and kickstart innovation, our Collaboration Starter Grants provide crucial early-stage funding for research and project proposals. Meet our 2026 recipients who are w...

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Incredible work from one of our trainees 🤩

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez@rodrigofg.bsky.social · last mo.

Our undergrad super-star @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social, recently showed that there are no sexual dimorphisms in the cell behaviours driving heart tube formation in Drosophila: www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Thanks @micropub7n.bsky.social and Shaad Ahmad for fair and helpful reviews.

With help from @negberry.bsky.social (now a postdoc at @princeton.edu), and generous funding from #NSERC, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @bme-uoft.bsky.social @engineering.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca.

microPublication Biology@micropub7n.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Quantitative image analysis reveals no sexual dimorphism in the cellular dynamics of Drosophila heart tube formation #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Drosophila #ComputationalBiology https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002132

For patients with heart failure, deciding on a hospital care strategy is critical. A new study from @uhn.ca’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre found that a risk-based care strategy with coordinated follow-up improves outcomes equally for males and females. 🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/6-25-20...

📢 2026 Heart Failure Symposium Call for Abstracts Open 📢 We want to hear about your latest heart research at this year's HFS, happening on Wednesday, October 7th at the Arcadian Court. Deadline: July 27th at 11:59 PM EDT Apply @ tedrogersresearch.ca/symposium/su...

@transformhf.bsky.social has opened applications for #OnTheLand - and TRCHR researches are encouraged to apply! 🌿🔭 This four-day land-based cultural safety course takes place September 16-19 in Minden, Ontario. Interested and available? Learn more and apply here: transformhf.ca/event/on-the...

Don't miss this exciting conference hosted by the @sickkidsto.bsky.social and @seattlechildrens.org on how Performance Rounds have evolved, where they stand today, and where they go next as a model for sharper team learning and better patient care! More info: web.cvent.com/event/3a1a07...

A fantastic Visiting Professor Series lecture from Dr. Rubén Marín-Juez yesterday exploring how the cardiac endothelium drives heart regeneration🫀 Thank you for the thought-provoking discussion! #CardiacRegeneration #VisitingProfessor @rmarinjuez.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor Craig Simmons on receiving the Engineers Canada Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education! From reimagining biomedical engineering curricula to co-founding the ECHO program, we're so proud of all you've accomplished! Read more: engineerscanada.ca/news-and-eve...

Join us for our Visiting Professor Series with Dr. Rubén Marín-Juez! "Beyond the Scar: The Epicardium as the Coordination Hub to Stimulate Transient Fibrosis" Tuesday, May 26, 2026 4–5 PM MaRS, 14th Floor or virtual Register: tally.so/r/EkbO1q

👋 Join us in giving a warm welcome to the students in our 2026 Undergraduate Summer Research Program! This summer, they'll be working alongside our multidisciplinary community of researchers to help address inequity in heart failure care. Meet the cohort: transformhf.ca/funded-under...

Thank you to everyone for supporting us in this year's Heart Failure Awareness Week, which was a big success! For additional information, be sure to visit heartfailure.ca and remember that it's not normal to be breathless, always get it checked ❤️

Tired all the time? Short of breath? Swollen ankles? Don't brush it off. These are common symptoms of #heartfailure, and early action makes a difference. Visit heartfailure.ca to learn the signs and next steps ❤️ #HFAW2026

Did you know more than 800,000 Canadians live with heart failure, and that figure keeps increasing each year? Join us this #HeartFailureWeekCan in helping to spread awareness and make a difference! Visit heartfailure.ca to learn more ❤️

#Heartfailure doesn’t just affect the heart. It can also impact memory, thinking, and focus. Our new resource on The Heart Hub helps you understand cognitive changes and what to do next. Read More: ourhearthub.ca/cognition/ #HeartFailure #BrainHealth #HFAW2026

An exciting new study in Nature Communications from a group researchers at TBEP, SickKids, UHN & beyond is exploring a new approach to building more realistic human heart cell models using an algorithm-driven nutrient cocktail🧑‍🔬 tedrogersresearch.ca/2026/04/a-ne...

A New Approach to Building More Realistic Human Heart Cell Models | Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

For researchers studying heart disease, lab-grown heart cells are an essential tool. Created from human stem cells, they offer a powerful way to model disease, test therapies, and better understand […...

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We're excited to announce our next Visiting Professor Lecturing featuring Dr. Frances de Man from @amsterdamumc! Join us in person or virtually on Tuesday, April 28 from 4-5 on the 14th floor of the MaRS Building. Register Today: forms.gle/3um585Y916cE...

Last Friday we celebrated our second #C4U conference! Thank you to all of our attendees, sponsors, and organizers for an incredible event learning about the novel advancements in the field of Critical Care and Cardiology. We look forward to seeing you all again next time!

Are you interested in scientific discovery? Don’t miss the next #SKResearch Connections seminar featuring several members of the TRCHR SickKids team! 🗓️ April 15, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. 📍Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning Zoom: ca01web.zoom.us/j/6974103007...

With key contributions from @ray-hawkins.bsky.social. Generously funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @utoronto.ca. Thanks @bme-uoft.bsky.social for letting me go on sabbatical 😆

A big thank you to Dr. Erin Mulvihill from @heartinstitute.bsky.social for being our first guest in our new Visiting Professor Lecture Series! We loved learning about the relationship between cardiovascular health and diabetes 🫀 Stay tuned for our next Visiting Professor announcement soon!

NEW: C4U 2026 is accredited for 6.75 Section 1 credits! As CICU care evolves, staying current is critical. C4U is Canada’s only accredited CICU-focused conference, happening on April 10 in Toronto. See full accreditation details and register at www.c4uconference.com

📢 You’re invited! Join us on May 29th for an exciting morning of research presentations, technology demos, and networking with our community. 📍 Campbell Conference Facility ⏰ 8:30AM - 1:00PM 🎟️ Register today: thf2026springnetwork.eventbrite.ca

Exciting news! Our TBEP team is hiring a Research Program Manager! This role will help oversee research management, reporting, grant applications, and industry engagement. If this sounds like you or someone you know, learn more at: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... @utoronto.ca

Our Education Fund Peer Workshop is happening tomorrow in the MaRS lounge on the 14th floor! Join us for advice from reviewers, feedback from past winners, and a chance to have your application edited by a scientific communicator 🧑‍💻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Calling all #genetic counsellors! Our team at the Cardiac Genome Clinic at @sickkidsto.bsky.social is hiring a Genetic Counsellor to help support their research and patient engagement. Sound like you or someone you know? Check out the posting and apply today! career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CA...