Leducq Foundation
International Networks of Excellence Program

This network assembles a team of exemplary investigators with complementary expertise across basic and translational disciplines who have made fundamental discoveries regarding inflammation and fibrosis in the heart. By combining our respective perspectives, visions, and expertise we have developed and integrated a synergistic strategy to investigate the inflammatory-fibrotic response to myocardial injury and how it contributes to adverse LV remodeling. We believe that this approach will drive the generation and implementation of innovative diagnostics and therapeutics that will ultimately impact patient care. Moreover, the network will train a multi-disciplinary workforce to advance and apply this science and lay the foundation for future training programs in immuno-cardiology. These outcomes will advance the mission of the Leducq Foundation to “improve human health through international efforts to combat cardiovascular disease and stroke”.



Performance Sites

Image Description: Map of all Network collaborating sites. Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri), Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), Hannover Medical School (Hannover, Germany), Imperial College (London), The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine)


Recent Posts

Fall Network Meeting- September 2023

Fall Network Meeting- September 2023
Senior and Early Career Investigators (ECI) came together September 20, 2023 @ The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine for another outstanding Network Meeting. Agenda included: ECI career progress and development, oral presentations from ECI and all questions and initiatives. Seed grant winner Sikander Hayat summarized the progress of his ongoing project “Large-scale single-cell atlas […]

Spring Network Meeting- April 2023

Spring Network Meeting- April 2023
Senior and Early Career Investigators (ECI) came together April 28-29, 2023 @ Imperial College in London, England for another outstanding Network Meeting. Agenda included: ECI career progress and development, starting your own lab and negotiating your position, oral and poster presentations, new target identification, new mouse models for probing the inflammatory-fibrosis axis and a lunch […]

This research is supported by a grant from the Leducq Foundation.