ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016
Extracellular Vesicle-Inspired CArdiac Repair
More than 3.5 million people are newly diagnosed with heart failure every year in Europe with a long-term prognosis of 50% mortality within 4 years. There is a major need for more innovative, regenerative therapies that have the potential to change the course of disease. My hypothesis is that we can recondition heart failure by stimulating cardiac repair with extracellular vesicles that are derived from progenitor cells. In my laboratory, extracellular released vesicles containing a cocktail of stimulating factors, are amongst the most potent vectors for cardiac repair. To achieve a sustainable and long-term therapeutic effect of these vesicles and enhance cardiac function by stimulating…
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