“Regulation and therapeutic targeting of mesenchymal stem cells in the adult mammalian heart”, 31 August

This week's Hudson seminar will be held Thursday 31 August 12pm-1pm in Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Level 2, TRF Building. 

Our speaker will be Professor Richard Harvey, Deputy Director and Head, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

A light lunch and refreshments will follow this presentation. 

Please email shaunagh.mchugh@hudson.org.au if you would like to meet with Richard after the seminar.


Professor Richard Harvey received his PhD in 1982 from the University of Adelaide, training in molecular biology. He undertook postdoctoral studies in embryology at Harvard University with Doug Melton, and then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, establishing an independent group. In 1998, he relocated to the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, where he is currently Co-Deputy Director and Head of the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division. He holds the endowed Sir Peter Finley Professorship of Heart Research at the University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The Royal Society of London and EMBO. His research focuses on the genetic basis of heart development, the pathological mechanisms underlying congenital heart disease, the biology and origins of adult cardiac stem cells, and cardiac regeneration.