Course description
During this course, you will build up knowledge in the field of cardiovascular biology and disease using translational approaches. More specifically, the course provides an overview of the healthy and diseased vessel wall from the cellular and molecular perspective, including vascular development, biomechanics, blood flow and role of inflammation, lipid metabolism and smooth muscle cells. The course is designed to lay a solid foundation for the student commitment to basic, clinical, and translational cardiovascular research utilizing the most advanced technologies and expertise in the field.
Through team-work and joint presentations/discussions, students should increase their skills for collaborative networking, scientific presentation and communication to peers and to the public. An additional objective of the course is to introduce the students to the concepts of relevant sustainability goals, applicable to cardiovascular diseases and related clinical and experimental research.
This course is given in collaboration with the Master's Programme in Biomedicine.
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
Function A course: Carrying out minor procedures in rodents
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
Educational partnership
The course is performed in partnership with the KI Global MSc program in Biomedicine.
Course director
Course director: Assoc Prof Ljubica Matic (Ljubica.Matic@ki.se)
Course co-organiser: Melody Chemaly, postdoc (Melody.Chemaly@ki.se)
Course clinical co-organiser: Assoc Prof Joy Roy (Joy.Roy@ki.se)
Link to website
https://ki.se/en/mmk/research/vascular-surgery/translational-vascular-medicine
Course syllabus
K1F6013
Department
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Doctoral programme
Cardiovascular Research (CVR)
Type of course
**Other course
Keywords
Vascular biology, Atherosclerosis, Aneurysm, Biobanking