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Clinical Trials and Preclinical Infrastructure Asset Map - Life Sciences

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BRITISH COLUMBIA<br />

APPENDIX 9. Healthcare Research Centres (cont’d)<br />

RESEARCH CENTRE/ URL CONTACT DESCRIPTION<br />

5. CARDIOVASCULAR SPECIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTES<br />

Healthy Heart Centre<br />

(HHC)<br />

www.heartcentre.ca<br />

The James Hogg<br />

iCAPTURE Centre for<br />

Cardiovascular <strong>and</strong><br />

Pulmonary Research<br />

(Heart Lung Institute)<br />

www.iCapture.ubc.ca<br />

The Heart Centre<br />

St. Paul’s Hospital<br />

Rm 444 B - 1081 Burrard Street<br />

Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y6<br />

Healthy Heart Program<br />

Prevention Clinic<br />

Main floor B180 - Burrard Building<br />

1081 Burrard St<br />

Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y6<br />

Tel: 604-806-8591<br />

Fax: 604-806-8590<br />

St. Paul’s Hospital<br />

Rm 166 - 1081 Burrard St.<br />

Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y6<br />

Tel: 604-806-8346<br />

Fax: 604-806-8351<br />

Bruce McManus, Director iCAPTURE<br />

Centre<br />

Contact: Khadija Hirji, Executive<br />

Administrator<br />

Tel: 604-806-8586<br />

Fax: 604-806-9274<br />

khirji@mrl.ubc.ca<br />

HHC undertakes clinical research studies in human volunteers to answer specific health questions <strong>and</strong> the fastest <strong>and</strong> safest way to find<br />

treatments that work in people <strong>and</strong> ways to improve health:<br />

• Interventional experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe <strong>and</strong> effective, in controlled situations: including<br />

medications, new devices or surgery, or other procedures such as counselling or lifestyle changes. Being in a study like this may last from<br />

days to years.<br />

• Observational or descriptive studies include: questionnaires, blood tests, X-rays or other tests, <strong>and</strong> they may last weeks or even years.<br />

HHC undertakes laboratory research usually on samples of human tissue, cells or molecules. The Heart Centre is closely linked with The<br />

James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre (see below).<br />

HHC partners include:<br />

• Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)<br />

• Providence Heart <strong>and</strong> Lung Institute<br />

• PHSA Cardiac Services<br />

• B.C. Children’s Hospital<br />

• B.C. Women’s Hospital & Health Centre<br />

• B.C. Cardiac Registries<br />

• B.C. Transplant<br />

• Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)<br />

• UBC.<br />

The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre (Imaging, Cell Analysis, <strong>and</strong> Phenotyping Toward Underst<strong>and</strong>ing Responsive, Reparative, Remodelling,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Recombinant Events) at St. Paul’s Hospital, is a UBC Senate-approved research centre supported collaboratively by the Faculty of<br />

Medicine of UBC <strong>and</strong> Providence Health Care.<br />

iCAPTURE currently has over 250 personnel working towards solving the problems of heart, lung, <strong>and</strong> blood vessel diseases. The iCAPTURE<br />

Centre is using the best available technology to image <strong>and</strong> measure changes in molecules, cells, tissues, organs <strong>and</strong> whole organisms,<br />

including patients, in order to underst<strong>and</strong> the link between our genes <strong>and</strong> environments in causing heart, lung, <strong>and</strong> blood vessel diseases.<br />

The role of inflammation <strong>and</strong> virus infections in the initiation <strong>and</strong> progression of disease is a central current of emphasis for the 250 staff of<br />

the Centre.

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