Virtual Lindau Lecture
TBA

For reasons beyond our control, we have had to postpone this lecture. We will host this event as soon as it is possible.

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Virtual Drewry Lecture
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 14:00 (CDT)

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Mihir Parikh
University of Manitoba
“Mending Your Broken Heart at the Dinner Table”

Dr. Mihir Parikh completed his PhD at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at St Boniface Hospital within the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba. As part of his doctoral study, he investigated the effect of supplementing the diet with the functional food, flaxseed, on left ventricular remodeling after a myocardial infarction. He has received several prestigious awards during the term of his doctoral work including the Best Doctoral Research in Cardiovascular Sciences from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, the 2020 E.L. Drewry Memorial Award, as well as The Best Review Article in 2019 from the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is currently studying epitranscriptomic- and exosome-mediated mechanisms in pathologies and therapeutics of the heart.