QCPU is a state-of-the-art research facility and KHSC clinic housed in the BioSciences Complex on Queen’s Campus

Kingston, Ontario
Joined January 2018
Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Our latest TIME to Talk podcast features Dr. Lynne Postovit (@DrPostovit), Head of @DBMSTweets! Learn about her research on ‘Cancer Chaos’ in which she exploits a dysfunctional DNA-chromatin relationship as a cancer Tx target youtu.be/ciaWUmBH4uI?si=gAJa… via @YouTube @QueensuDOM
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Bring your dog to work day ⁦@queensutime⁩ ⁦@QueensuCPU⁩ ⁦@QueensuDOM⁩ #someofmyfavouritepeoplearedogs
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Join us tomorrow for @STEMygk! 🔬🧪 Explore 59 booths & enjoy hands-on activities at @SlushPuppiePL from 10 AM - 3 PM. Free event. Don’t miss Southeastern Ontario’s largest celebration of science! bit.ly/3UPlfXQ #QueensU #SRKingston2024 #ScienceRendezvous #YGK #Kingston
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Feline quality control: achieved. Now < 24h away from #ScienceRendezvous2024 ! Join us (& MANY more!) tomorrow from 10-3 at #SlushPuppiePlace for a free, family event... incl. 🫀& 🫁 fun c/o our team plus the @QueensRIU & @QueensuCPU @STEMygk @QueensUHealth @DbmsTweets
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Can't wait for this year's @STEMygk #ScienceRendezvous! Come out to #SlushPuppiePlace this Saturday from 10-3 to learn about everything from dinosaurs... plants... robots (and robot dogs!)... to our personal faves - the 🫀& 🫁!
The countdown is ON! 3 days until Science Rendezvous @STEMygk | May 11th | 10am-3pm @SlushPuppiePL Last year’s video with @DrHindmarch shows you how to make an at home spirometer 🫁 and how racoons make great lab assistants 🦝 youtu.be/-Qoxc9sLmng?si=PPhA… via @YouTube
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The countdown is ON! 3 days until Science Rendezvous @STEMygk | May 11th | 10am-3pm @SlushPuppiePL Last year’s video with @DrHindmarch shows you how to make an at home spirometer 🫁 and how racoons make great lab assistants 🦝 youtu.be/-Qoxc9sLmng?si=PPhA… via @YouTube
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Don't miss Science Rendezvous this weekend Sat. May 11, Slush Puppie Place 10 am - 3 pm for a full line-up of interactive, family fun featuring many QHS faculty and staff engaging young minds in science and research! For more details @queensutime @cinq_lab bit.ly/3UTN4OI
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Since the inception of the HI YGK initiative, QPI helped almost 70 health-innovation client groups through various programs and supports. Read more about the success of the HI-YGK project ➡ queensu.ca/partnershipsandin…
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
#QueensU hosts @STEMygk this Sat, May 11 – enjoy family-friendly science innovation at this FREE event! 🧪🔬 Engage with 59 booths, explore archives, conduct experiments, and more. Join us from 10 AM - 3 PM at @SlushPuppiePL. bit.ly/3UPlfXQ #SRKingston2024 #Kingston #YGK
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The countdown is ON! 4 days until Science Rendezvous @STEMygk | May 11th | 10am-3pm @SlushPuppiePL Learn how X-ray’s work with the delightful Dr. Alizadeh in her lab @QueensuCPU to see the toy inside a Kinder Egg Surprise 👉 youtu.be/eqSJC5NaYAM?si=tyjR… via @YouTube
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Science Rendezvous (SR) connects kids to the excitement of science. Our QCPU scientists @queenucpu (like Dr C Hindmarch below) @queensutime play a major role. TIME (the Translational Institute of Medicine) is a major sponsor of SR queensu.ca/gazette/stories/c… @QueensuDOM @KingstonHSC
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The countdown is ON! 5 days until Science Rendezvous @STEMygk | May 11th | 10am-3pm @SlushPuppiePL. Watch our resident mad-british scientist @DrHindmarch in the 🍓Smashing Strawberries 🧬 video that started our @QueensuCPU Edu-Lab series 👉 youtu.be/a1eZ5kTv4no?si=zzbj… via @YouTube
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TIME is proud to be a sponsor of 2024 @STEMygk taking place May 11th | 10-3pm @SlushPuppiePL. It is a FREE family event which showcases all the ways that science is cool! @QueensuCPU will there with our microscopes, mini-X-ray machine and genomics puzzles/origami 🔬🧬🦴
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We are currently running three internal grants! Main PI must be a primary appointment to @QueensuDOM. Details found here: deptmed.queensu.ca/news/time…
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
New CFI-research platform @queensu, TIME Core. Our 6 platforms (total investment $17M), run by TIME scientists , will catalyze translation of discovery science by >20 research groups & >100 trainees in Queen’s Heath Science (QHS) to grow research @KingstonHSC @QueensuDOM
TIME Core @queensuResearch announced: CFI-funded platform will enable fundamental discovery & knowledge translation. TIME Core will help create diagnostic tests & therapies for heart, lung , inflammatory, & neurodegenerative diseases & cancer @QueensuDOM . shorturl.at/mpE68
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TIME Core @queensuResearch announced: CFI-funded platform will enable fundamental discovery & knowledge translation. TIME Core will help create diagnostic tests & therapies for heart, lung , inflammatory, & neurodegenerative diseases & cancer @QueensuDOM . shorturl.at/mpE68
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
It’s TIME to talk … About our new podcast series that focuses on our translational researchers @queensu! Hosted by @DrStephenArcher and @DrHindmarch our first guest is Dr. Paula James @james_paulad 🩸
Replying to @DrStephenArcher
Enjoy 30 minutes in our TIME for Science & Medicine Podcast with an inspiring clinician scientist, Dr. Paula James tinyurl.com/54m4dhts. Everything you ever wanted to know about your period...but were afraid to ask @queensutime @janephilpott @QueensuDOM @KingstonHSC
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Congrats to co-PI Dr Asish Das Gupta (with reward donuts LOL) on 5-year @CIHR_IRSC grant! "Regulation of Dynamin 2 expression, mitochondrial targeting, and evaluation of role in mitochondrial fission: Implications for pulmonary arterial hypertension @QueensuDOM @queensutime
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
5 academic publishing companies use publicly funded research as free content & generate greater % profit margins than Apple or Google (while limiting access to articles for researchers & public). Read about it in blog, "The Wall" tinyurl.com/y4pun5uv @QueensuDOM @queensutime
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Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU) retweeted
Last Friday, TIME celebrated science at @queensu and acknowledged the legendary @VannerStephen for his service as the previous Director of TIME! Congratulations to the highlighted @CIHR_IRSC winners, @tmedQueens students and the WJ Henderson Foundation on their recent awards 🥳🎉
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