Join Professor Paul Bannon, and Dr Robert Hume as they discuss their ground-breaking research. In this webinar, you will be provided with an overview of their research into novel degradable blood vessel replacements at the Centre for Heart Failure and Diseases of the Aorta. Exciting preliminary results have shown that our new elastic and degradable artery replacements have reduced thromboses (blockages), when compared to the synthetic replacements currently used in surgery.  Additionally, our artery replacements have begun to change in size, to a shape that fits more closely with the healthy artery above and below it.

Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we will be able to use cutting edge technology,  called spatial transcriptomics, to interrogate each individual cell that has grown into the artery replacements and investigate how closely their gene expression (mRNA) mimics that of a healthy artery.