New institute focuses on translational heart disease research

The newly-formed Cape Heart Institute (CHI) formally opens on 29 September 2021.

The university-accredited research hub fundamentally aims to offer a bridge between laboratory-based research and clinical research. It will concentrate on cardiovascular conditions common to sub-Saharan Africa by consolidating and expanding major existing efforts to combat the most serious cardiovascular threats to health.

The CHI currently encompasses eight research groups and is led by Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle (Director) and Professor Sandrine Lecour (Deputy Director). It is housed in the Chris Barnard Building at the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Institute lists its key aims, among others, to address the critical shortage of researchers required to engage in basic, translational and clinical aspects of cardiovascular and chronic diseases.

Read more on the Institute here.