Calprotect’s founder Alexandru Schiopu has been awarded the “Erik K. Fernström prize” 2021 for younger, particularly promising and successful researchers at the Medical Faculty of Lund University.
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Lunds Fernströmspris för forskning som förbättrar behandling av hjärtsjukdom (Swedish)
Dr. Alexandru Schiopu, founder of CALPROTECT, won the Grand Prize in the Future Innovation Award competition held by Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne, in the “Employee” category. The prize has been awarded for Dr. Schiopu’s project aiming to develop a novel anti-inflammatory therapy for myocardial infarction patients that will be further advanced by CALPROTECT.
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Future Innovation Award competition 2020, Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne (English)
or here:
Lunds universitets och Sparbanken Skånes pris för framtidens innovationer 2020 (Swedish)
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A new treatment for myocardial infarction patients (English)
The findings by the team of Dr. Alexandru Schiopu on the beneficial therapeutic effects of calprotectin blockade in myocardial infarction have been highlighted as one of the most important discoveries of 2019 in coronary artery disease. The study has been included in the yearly European Heart Journal editorial “The year in cardiology: acute coronary syndromes 2019”.
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The year in cardiology: acute coronary syndromes 2019
The research team of Dr. Alexandru Schiopu at Lund University published the first proof-of-concept study showing that short-term blockade of calprotectin (S100A8/A9) with a small molecule therapeutic inhibits inflammation, reduces heart damage and improves heart function in mice with myocardial infarction (MI). The study has been published in the European Heart Journal, the top-ranked international journal in the cardiovascular field.
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Inhibition of inflammation by short-term S100A9 blockade improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction
