Mr Yow Keat Tham
PhD student
Cardiac Hypertrophy
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Australia
Biography
Yow Keat is a final year PhD student affiliated to Monash University currently working in the Cardiac Hypertrophy Laboratory under the supervision of Associate Professor Julie McMullen. He previously worked as a research assistant under Julie for a number of years before pursuing his PhD. Yow Keat completed his honours degree in 2009, investigating the action of various transcription factors in the nicotine biosynthesis pathway in tobacco plants. His current PhD and research interest involves looking at changes to cardiac lipid profiles in both physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy.
Research Interest
Cardiac Hypertrophy
Publications
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Yow Keat Tham,Pathophysiology of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure: signaling pathways and novel therapeutic targets Archives of Toxicology 2015 89(9): p1401–38.
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Yow Keat Tham,The small molecule BGP-15 protects against heart failure and atrial fibrillation in mice Nature Communications 2015 5:5705.
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Yow Keat Tham,Inhibition of miR-154 protects against cardiac dysfunction and fibrosis in a mouse model of pressure overload Scientific Reports 2016. 6, 22442.
