Projects in the Center

• Biological Project 6 - Identification and characterization of potential serum biomarkers of ischemia/reperfusion injury

Research Summary

Dr. Van Eyk has been a Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Scholar (1996-2001) and Heart and Stroke Career Investigator (received 2001), in addition to receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator Award. In the last two years, she was the recipient of the three awards for research excellence, two from Queen?s (Chancellor and Basmajian) and one provincial (Premier?s). Dr. Van Eyk is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, a member of the editorial board of Circulation Research and guest editor for a series on Proteomics for that journal; and, she has joined the editorial board of Proteomics specifically as editor for Technical Briefs. She is co-editing with Dr. Mike Dunn ?Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease: Molecular Mechanisms, Therapeutic Targets and Diagnostics? to be published in mid-2002. Her research combines physiology and proteomics to provide an in-depth analysis of the molecular basis for a variety of cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases ranging from myocardial stunning and heart failure to respiratory muscle injury in obstructive lung diseases and sepsis, and using this information to develop new serum biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets.