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Our 2024-25 Innovation Fund Award Winners

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10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium, October 1, 2025

3D models of heart failure… stiffened hearts in diabetes…. saving infant lives

10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium, October 1, 2025

After a heart attack, this peptide protects the heart from further injury

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10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium, October 1, 2025

Heart Failure Symposium 2025

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10th Annual Heart Failure Symposium, October 1, 2025

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Heart Failure Symposium 2023

With this year’s symposium focusing on the research and achievements of our heart failure community, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research awarded prizes for abstract submissions, posters presentations, and oral presentations at the symposium. To celebrate a decade of research and innovation, three scientists were also presented with the BEST Cardiovascular Science of the Decade Awards.

POSTER AWARDS

Browse through our first place winners, runner ups, and honourable mentions.

First Place Winners

Karem Abdul-Samad
Robert Lao
Jose Luis Lopez
Maya Pankiw
Coulter Montague
Sahej Kaur Saini

Runner Ups

Tselot Tessema
Jasmeen Kaur Monga
Tao Wang
Megh Rathod
Victoria Saba Echezarreta
Zhiyue Zhu

Honourable Mentions

Syed Turab Hasan
Jasmeen Kaur Monga
Jia Du
Sandar Min
Daniel Patolsky
Jade Huang

People's Choice

Zhiyue Zhu

ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

Browse through our best oral presentation winner and the runner ups.

Best Flash Science Oral Presentation

Robert Lao

Best Overall Oral Presentation

Homaira Hamidzada

BEST CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCE OF THE DECADE AWARDS

Browse through our winners in Basic Science, Clinical Science, & Translational Science.

Best Science of the Decade Award Winners 2025

Best Cardiovascular Basic Science of the Decade

Self-renewing resident cardiac macrophages limit adverse remodeling following myocardial infarction

Authors: Sarah A. Dick, Jillian A. Macklin, Sara Nejat, Abdul Momen, Xavier Clemente-Casares, Marwan G. Althagafi, Jinmiao Chen, Crystal Kantores, Siyavash Hosseinzadeh, Laura Aronoff, Anthony Wong, Rysa Zaman, Iulia Barbu, Rickvinder Besla, Kory J. Lavine, Babak Razani, Florent Ginhoux, Mansoor Husain, Myron I. Cybulsky, Clinton S. Robbins, Slava Epelman

Best Cardiovascular Clinical Science of the Decade

Oral Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Authors: Mansoor Husain, Andreas L. Birkenfeld, Morten Donsmark, Kathleen Dungan, Freddy G. Eliaschewitz, Denise R. Franco, Ole K. Jeppesen, Ildiko Lingvay, Ofri Mosenzon, Sue D. Pedersen, Cees J. Tack, Mette Thomsen, Tina Vilsbøll, Mark L. Warren, Stephen C. Bain

Best Cardiovascular Translational Science of the Decade

In vitro matured human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes form grafts with enhanced structure and function in injured hearts

Authors: Wahiba Dhahri, Tamilla Sadikov Valdman, Dan Wilkinson, Elizabeth Pereira, Eylül Ceylan, Naaz Andharia, Beiping Qiang, Hassan Masoudpour, Fanny Wulkan, Elya Quesnel, Wenlei Jiang, Shunsuke Funakoshi, Amine Mazine, M. Juliana Gomez-Garcia, Neda Latifi, Yidi Jiang, Ella Huszti, Craig A. Simmons, Gordon Keller, Michael A. Laflamme