Mansoor Husain, MD, FRCPC

Scientist, Cell & Molecular Biology
Toronto General Research Institute

Associate Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Toronto General Hospital

Interim Director, Heart and Stroke Richard Lewar Centre for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, University of Toronto

Keywords: Vascular smooth muscle cell biology, vasomotor physiology, transgenic mouse models of cardiovascular disease

Scientific interests

  • Molecular bases of vascular and cardiac diseases such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, arrhythmias and heart failure

  • Identifying therapeutic targets involved in the pathophysiology of mouse models of human cardiovascular diseases

  • Cardiovascular gene regulation and pathobiology

  • Optimizing in vitro systems for differentiation of functional smooth muscle cells and cardiac myocytes from embryonic stem cells

Publications
Find this researcher’s publications on PubMed

Clinical interests

  • Cardiac Intensive Care
  • Nuclear Cardiology

Contact Information
Email: mansoor.husain@utoronto.ca | Mansoor.Husain@uhn.on.ca
Research office: (416) 581-7488/9 (Assistant: Tracey Richards)

Links
Dr. Husain’s profile on the UHN website
Husain lab website

Mansoor Husain, MD, FRCPC