ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Recapitulating the growth of the human heart to mature cardioids
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading global cause of death. Yet, breakthroughs in cardiac therapies are limited due to the poor predictive power of current models. While the animals fail to accurately replicate human heart physiology, the human pluripotent stem cell-derived models remain underdeveloped and immature for reliable disease modeling and therapy development. To address these challenges, we propose to further develop our cardiac organoid (“cardioid”) model and recapitulate the key stages of heart growth, including trabeculation, compaction, vascularization, and postnatal hypertrophy, resulting in physiological-like maturation. We hypothesize that these processes lead…
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