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Professor Ziad Mallat, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Department of Medicine and the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, has been awarded this year’s Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases.
This esteemed award recognises the work of Professor Mallat’s lab on understanding the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease, from basic science research to pre-clinical experimentation in animals and translation clinical investigation in patients.
We discovered that endogenous anti-inflammatory and regulatory mechanisms are important in protecting us from disease progression, and this is where our work is focused on... and we are doing this now in patients in clinical trials.”
Professor Ziad Mallat
The main focus of Professor Mallat’s research is on identifying prominent roles for specific pathogenic and regulatory immune pathways in atherosclerosis and post-ischaemic remodelling.
Currently, his lab is developing novel immuno-modulatory and vaccination-based strategies to promote protective immune responses and shut down disease progression, with the aim to radically change the management and treatment of these common and serious cardiovascular diseases.
The Louis and Artur Lucian Award was established through a bequest to McGill University under the will of the late Olga Leibovici to honour the donor's two brothers, and was conferred for the first time in 1978. The Award is designed to honour outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.
Alongside the award, Professor Zallat is invited for a formal Lucian Lecture next year to visit the McGill community and initiate collaborations in the field of circulatory diseases.
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