Professor Stephen Nicholas Hunyor

Professor
Medicine, Northern Clinical School
Kolling Institute of Medical Research

E25 - Royal North Shore Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T:02 9926 7845
F:02 9901 4097
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Research interests

Heart Injury and Repair; Heart Assist Devices R&D; Stem Cell Therapy for the Heart; Heart Failure; Heart "energetics"

Publications

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2004 | 2003

2008

  
  • Weir, C., Morel-Kopp, M., Gill, A., Tinworth, K., Ladd, L., Hunyor, S., Ward, C. Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Isolation, Characterisation and In Vivo Fluorescent Dye Tracking. Heart, lung & circulation. 2008; 17:395-403. [Abstract]

2007

  
  • Mau, J., Menzie, S., Ward, M., Bundgaard, H., Hunyor, S. Time-dependent response of both ventricles after septal ablation: implications for biventricular support after left ventricular assist device placement. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2007; 134:579-86. [Abstract]
  • Gallagher, G., Menzie, S., Huang, Y., Jackson, C., Hunyor, S. Regional cardiac dysfunction is associated with specific alterations in inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases after acute myocardial infarction in sheep. Basic research in cardiology. 2007; 102:63-72. [Abstract]
  • Gallagher, G., Jackson, C., Hunyor, S. Myocardial extracellular matrix remodeling in ischemic heart failure. Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library. 2007; 12:1410-1419. [Abstract]
  • Gallagher, G., Huang, Y., Zielinski, R., Morita, S., Hunyor, S. Effect of direct cardiac compression on left ventricular axial dynamics in sheep. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992). 2007; 53:292-297. [Abstract]
  • Gallagher, G., Huang, Y., Morita, S., Zielinski, R., Hunyor, S. Efficacy and mechanisms of biventricular and left/right direct cardiac compression in acute heart failure sheep. Artificial organs. 2007; 31:39-44. [Abstract]

2006

  
  • Ladd, L., Tinworth, K., Bailey, D., Bautovich, G., Bailey, E., Roach, P., Hunyor, S. SPECT/CT imaging for tracking myocardial infarction (MI) in an ovine model. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2006; 41:739-739. [Abstract]

2004

  
  • Huang, Y., Hunyor, S., Jiang, L., Kawaguchi, O., Shirota, K., Ikeda, Y., Yuasa, T., Gallagher, G., Zeng, B., Zheng, X. Remodeling of the chronic severely failing ischemic sheep heart after coronary microembolization: functional, energetic, structural, and cellular responses. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology. 2004; 286:H2141-50. [Abstract]
  • Ramanathan, T., Morita, S., Huang, Y., Shirota, K., Nishimura, T., Zheng, X., Hunyor, S. Glucose-insulin-potassium solution improves left ventricular energetics in chronic ovine diabetes. The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2004; 77:1408-14. [Abstract]

2003

  
  • Jiang, L., Huang, Y., Hunyor, S., dos Remedios, C. Cardiomyocyte apoptosis is associated with increased wall stress in chronic failing left ventricle. European Heart Journal. 2003; 24:742-751.
  • Carrington, R., Huang, Y., Kawaguchi, O., Yuasa, T., Shirota, K., Martin, D., Hunyor, S. Direct compression of the failing heart reestablishes maximal mechanical efficiency. The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2003; 75:190-196. [Abstract]
  • Huang, Y., Gallagher, G., Plekhanov, S., Morita, S., Brady, P., Hunyor, S. HeartPatch implanted direct cardiac compression: effect on coronary flow and flow patterns in acute heart failure sheep. ASAIO Journal. 2003; 49:309-13. [Abstract]

Current national competitive grants*

2009

Stem Cell treatment for tendon degeneration
Little C, Smith M, Sonnabend D, Appleyard R, Melrose J, Hunyor S
NHMRC Project Grants ($659,500 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney