Lectures will focus on major cardiovascular diseases including vascular diseases, hypertension, myocardial infarction and heart failure. For each type of pathology, the definition and symptoms will be provided and the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms will be developed. Different experimental models of these cardiovascular diseases will be presented and their relevance to the human disease discussed. The mechanism of action of the present pharmacological treatments and their major side effects will be developed. Moreover, novel targets for drug development will be presented.
Tutorials will focus on novel targets for the treatment of these cardiovascular diseases based on published articles using experimental models of cardiovascular diseases.
 

Knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the development of major cardiovascular diseases, relevance and limitation of actual and future treatment targets and of experimental models of cardiovascular diseases.
 

• Goodman and Gilman’s. The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 13th Edition
• Molecular and Translational Vascular Medicine. Jonathon W. Homeister, Monte S. Willis. Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012.
• Medscape & Education (Medscape@mail.medscape.org)