Cardiac Surgeon
Montreal University
Universite de Montreal
Dr Nicolas Noiseux obtained his MD and MSc degrees in molecular biology at the Université Laval after a Baccalaureate in Biochemistry. Following his training in cardiac surgery at the Université de Montréal, he completed his research fellowship at Harvard University in Boston. He is an independent researcher at the CHUM Research Center and Senior clinician-research scientist and director of research in cardiovascular surgery.
Dr Noiseux leads a cutting-edge translational research program and several clinical trials addressing key questions in regenerative, organ perfusion and cardiovascular medicine. He has raised sizeable capital in research grants and contracts in basic science and human trials. He is author and co-author of over 160 referred manuscripts in high impact journals, 180 abstracts, over 360 scientific meeting presentations and 90 invited presentations worldwide, and supervises several students at various levels of training. Commissioned Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky USA in 2018 for outstanding personal and professional achievements. He possesses valuable and unique surgical skills in preclinical experimental models mimicking a variety of human diseases in small and large animals. Set up various platforms for in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo experiments to study animals up to humans, at the cellular or whole organ levels. His team is the first in North-America to have developed autologous (patient’s own) stem cell transplantation of a particularly promising cell type (CD133+) to treat heart failure.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
156 - FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: CARDIOVASCULAR TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Thursday, October 24, 2024
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PT