In this webinar, held on 30 March 2026, Professor Bannon, Professor Lal and Dr Malecki provided an update on their ongoing research at the Centre for Heart Failure and Diseases of the Aorta into cardiac ageing. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have been able to take significant steps forward in this research.
The team have recently performed cutting edge technology called “spatial transcriptomics” to help further characterise the changes happening in the heart as we age. We are in the process of analysing the data which will reveal which genes are being switched on and off in the hearts as we age and what specific cells in the heart are most effected. This will greatly advance our understanding of human cardiac ageing, bringing us another step closer to identifying promising mechanisms that can be leveraged to slow age-related damage to the heart.
