Österreichische Kardiologische Gesellschaft 

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History

• Founding meeting in October 1992 in Graz
• WG was formally founded on 1/9/1993 ASC in Gastein
  
• Founders and first WG directors: Prof. Gasser (Graz), Prof. Huber (Vienna)
  
• Assistance with the founding: Prof. Kühn (Linz), Prof. Kaindl (Vienna)
  
• First Nucleus:
  Vienna: Prof. Glogar, Prof. Weidinger, Prof. Stefenelli
  Graz: Prof. Gasser, Prof. Rigler, Dr. Grisold, Prof. Koidl
  Innsbruck: Prof. Puschendorf, Prof. Lechleitner, Prof. Dienstl, Prof. Mühlberger

Events 2011

• Weissensee 2011
  Cardiovascular Research Days 2011 (common Organisation with the Working Group of ATVB)
• Meeting of the Working Group Experimental Cardiology, Salzburg ÖKG 2011

Events 2010

• Weissensee Meeting January 2010
  Subject: The Old and Multimorbid Patient, a Challenge for Scientists and Clinicians
• Annual Meeting of the ASC, Salzburg 2010

Events 2008-2009

• Cardiovascular Research Days, Weissensee, 2008
• Annual Meeting of the ASC, Salzburg 2009
• Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Graz/Schloss Pichlarn, 10/22-25, 2009

Activities 2010-2011

1. Nucleus member of the Working Group „Thrombosis" of ESC (Prof. Wojta)

2. Co-ordinator of the Ludwig Boltzmann Clusters „Cardiovascular Research“ (Prof. Wojta) 

3. Nucleus members of the Ludwig Boltzmann Clusters „Cardiovascular Research“ (Prof. Gyöngyösi, Doz. Podesser, Dr. Tretscher) 

4. Cooperation with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardiac and Thoracic Diagnosis and Regeneration (Prof. Gyöngyösi)

5. Representation in the Österreichische Herzstiftung (Prof. Gasser, one of the founder)

Research projects

• Graz:
• EC and ET Coupling
• Heart Failure
• Arrhythmogenesis
• Metabolism

• Innsbruck:
• Ischemia/Reperfusion
  - in vivo, mouse
  - bio-markers

• Vienna:
• Vascular Biology
  - Angiogenesis
  - Thrombosis/Haemostasis
• Remodeling after myocardial infarction

• 20 Post docs
• 20 Doctoral candidates
• 4-5 Technicians

Scientific Highlights

2010-2011

Award of the Austrian Society of Cariology:

1. M. Lichtenauer et al, Medical University Vienna: „Intravenous and intramyocardial injection of apoptotic white blood cell suspensions prevents ventricular remodeling by increasing elastin expression in cardiac scar tissue after myocardial infarction” (Basic Res Cardiol, 2011)
2. S. Demyanets et al, Medical University Vienna:   „Oncostatin M-enhanced vascular endothelial growth factor expression in human vascular smooth muscle cells involves PI3K-, p38 MAPK-, Erk1/2- and STAT1/STAT3-dependent pathways and is attenuated by interferon-g”(Basic Res Cardiol, 2011)
   
   

Best abstracts, Basic Science:

M. Gyöngyösi et al, Internal Medicine II. Cardiology, Vienna:„Increased matrix metalloproteinase 2 expression of infarcted myocardium attenuates homing of mesenchymal stem cells“

Hans and Blanca Moser foundation:

G. Goliasch, Department of Cardiology, Medical University Vienna„Markers of bone       metabolism in premature myocardial infarction (≤40 years of age)“

2008-2009

CA2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II-Gamma and Protein Kinase D Overexpression Reinforce the Histone Deacetylase 5 Redistribution in Heart Failure

Jule Bossuyt, Kathryn Helmstadter, Xu Wu, Hugh Clements-Jewery, Robert S. Haworth, Metin Avkiran, Jody L. Martin, Steven M. Pogwid, Donald M. Bers. Circ Res. 2008; 102:695-702