Vascular Cell Biology

Third-cycle level | 3.0 credits (HEC) | Course code: K1F6013
HT 2024
Study period: 2024-09-30 - 2024-10-11
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2024-04-15 - 2024-09-09
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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

CONTACTLjubica Matic

ljubica.matic@ki.se