Fondation Leducq 13CVD04
Transatlantic Network of Excellence

Team#1 (German Coordinator)

Professor Siegfried Labeit
Department of Integrative Pathophysiology (Head)
Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg,
Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, GERMANY
Email: Labeit@embl.de

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Team#2 (North American Coordinator)

Professor Henk L. Granzier
Department of Physiology, University of Arizona
Medical Research Building 340, 1656 East Mabel Street
Tucson, AZ 85724-5217, U.S.A.
Email: Granzier@email.arizona.edu

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Team#3

Professor Ralph Knoell
ICMC (Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre)
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge (M54)
SE 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Email:ralph.knoell@ki.se

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Team#4

Dr. Olga Mayans
School of Biological Sciences
Biosciences Building (BSB) Crown Street
University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
Email: Olga.Mayans@liv.ac.uk

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Team #5

Isabelle Richard, Ph.D.
Généthol-CNRS UMR8115,1 rue de l'internationale,
91000 Evry, FRANCE,
Email: Richard@igenethon.fr

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Team#6

Ju Cher, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
(co-PI:Stephan Lange, Ph.D.)
AHA Endowed Char, Director of Basic Cardiac Research
UCSD School of medicine
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla
CA 92093-0613C U.S.A.
juchen@ucsd.edu

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Team #7

H.Lee Sweeney, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University Pennsylvania School of Medicine 37th and Hamilton Walk,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6085 U.S.A.
lsweeney@mail.med.upenn.edu

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Collaborator #1

Michael Gotthardt, M.D.
Max-Delbrück Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin –Buch Role:
Titin stiffness modulation by splicing and provision of spring element KO mice.

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Collaborator #2

Michael Gramlich, M.D.
University Hospital Tübingen, Germany Role:
Rescue by exon skipping and provision of titin FS-exon 326 mouse model.

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Collaborator #3

Prof. Robin Leatherbarrow
Dept of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College, London, UK Role:
Synthesis of telethonin/TCAP inhibitors

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Collaborator #4

Martin LeWinter, MD
Chief of Cardiology University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405-0160 Role:
Collaborator on mechanoptosis in HF with titin-based diastolic stiffening

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Collaborator #5

Professor Coen Ottenheijm
VU University Medical Center University of Amsterdam
Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research
Van der Boechorststraat 7
1081 BT, Amsterdam. NETHERLANDS
Email: c.ottenheijm@vumc.nl

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Collaborator #6

Dilson Rassier , M.D.
McGill University, Department of Physiology 475 avenue des Pins Ouest Montreal Quebec Canada Role:
Stress sensing at the level of single sarcomeres

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Collaborator #7

Marco Sandri, PhD
Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Gene Regulation Via Orus 2, 35129 Padova, Italy Role:
Cardiomyocyte protection by Akt1 pathway modulation

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Collaborator #8

Matt Taylor, M.D., PhD
Medical School, University of Denver, U.S.A. Role:
Identification of titin spring mutations, leading to mechanoptosis

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