Gavin Oudit

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
oudit@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 407-8569
Address
2C2 Mackenzie Health Science Centre
8440 - 112 St
Edmonton AB
T6G 2B7

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

hypertension pediatric heart failure apoptosis heart failure atherosclerosis diabetes echocardiography blood pressure cardiac function pharmacology cardiovascular medicine cardiology


About

Personal Statement:

Heart failure occurs when the heart has been damaged by heart attack or stroke. Approximately 600,000 Canadians live with heart failure and those numbers are increasing. Heart failure costs our health system about $2.4 billion annually. My goal is to use the knowledge and collaborative strengths we have to translate basic discoveries in the lab into therapies to reduce the burden of heart disease on individuals, their families and the health system.  

Clinician scientist Dr. Oudit’s medical degree, internal medicine and adult cardiology specialty training and were all completed at the University of Toronto. He is a translational researcher whose work with patients at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute informs his research endeavours to discover new therapies for heart failure. 

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Oudit established the Human Explanted Heart Program and is director of the Heart Function Clinic at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.



Clinical Interests

Dr. Oudit is a clinician-scientist with the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.


Research

Dr. Oudit holds the Canada Research Chair in Heart Failure. He spends 65 of his time investigating the molecular and cellular aspects of heart failure and arrythmias with the goal new drug and therapy targets. His research spans many aspects of heart failure, including the role of gender in iron-overload cardiomyopathy, investigating cardiotoxicity from breast cancer chemotherapy, identifying diagnoses and treatment of Fabry disease, discovering biomarkers for heart failure, as well as research into and vascular diseases. A discovery by Dr. Oudit of a molecule called ACE2 that protects against heart failure, coupled with his use of genetic mapping technology to more clearly observe sub-cellular processes involved in heart failure, led to the development of a biologic to treat the disease. The new heart failure drug has been successfully tested in clinical trials and is expected to be available within five years. Dr. Oudit’s work with ACE2 shows that it also plays major roles in diabetes and lung diseases and he is developing potential therapies. 

Dr. Oudit’s research is funded by the Women and Children's Health Research Institute, University Hospital Foundation, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He completed research grants with the Canadian Diabetes Association and Alberta Innovates. He has partnerships with GlaxoSmith Kline and Apeiron Biologics.

Dr. Oudit is an active review committee for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and has more than 300 scientific papers and abstracts in publication. 


Teaching

Dr. Oudit teaches graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and cardiology and nephrology residents. 

Featured Publications

Mahmud Z, Tikunova S, Belevych N, Wagg CS, Zhabyeyev P, Liu PB, Rasicci DV, Yengo CM, Oudit GY, Lopaschuk GD, Reiser PJ, Davis JP, Hwang PM

Frontiers in Physiology. 2022 June; 13 10.3389/fphys.2022.892979


Zhang H, Jamieson K, Grenier J, Nikhanj A, Tang Z, Wang F, Wang SH, Seidman J, Seidman C, Thompson R, Seubert J, Oudit GY

Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022 June; 11 (11):e022853 10.1161/JAHA.121.022853


FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2022 May; 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.0R588


Kumaran M, Pham TM, Wang K, Usman H, Oudit GY, Norris CM, Macdonald J, Saini V, Sikdar KC

Frontiers in Public Health. 2022 May; 10 10.3389/fpubh.2022.838514


FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2022 May; 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.0R342


Sosnowski DK, Jamieson KL, Darwesh AM, Valencia R, Zhang H, Viveiros A, Edin ML, Zeldin, D, Oudit GY, Seubert JM

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2022 May; 9 10.3389/fcvm.2022.879209


Gheblawi M., de Oliveira A.A., Williams V.R., John R., Grant M.B., Scholey J.W., Oudit G.Y.

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY. 2022 April; 169 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2022.04.015


Parikh M., Seidman M., Oudit G.Y.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2022 March; 38 (3):309-310 10.1016/j.cjca.2022.01.012


Viveiros A., Gheblawi M., Aujla P.K., Sosnowski D.K., Seubert J.M., Kassiri Z., Oudit G.Y.

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY. 2022 March; 164 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2021.11.003


Parikh M., Shah S., Basu R., Famulski K.S., Kim D., Mullen J.C., Halloran P.F., Oudit G.Y.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2022 February; 23 (4):2050 10.3390/ijms23042050


Wang K., Gheblawi M., Nikhanj A., Munan M., MacIntyre E., O’Neil C., Poglitsch M., Colombo D., Del Nonno F., Kassiri Z., Sligl W., Oudit G.Y.

HYPERTENSION. 2022 February; 79 (2):365-378 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18295


Yogasundaram H., Nikhanj A., Chatur S., Qi A., Hagen L., Bailey L., Khan A., Hopkin R.J., Fine N.M., Jefferies J.L., Oudit G.Y.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY. 2022 February; 35 (2):236-238 10.1016/j.echo.2021.09.013


Chute M., Aujla P.K., Li Y., Jana S., Zhabyeyev P., Rasmuson J., Owen C.A., Abraham T., Oudit G.Y., Kassiri Z.

MATRIX BIOLOGY. 2022 January; 105 10.1016/j.matbio.2021.12.002


de Oliveira A.A., Vergara A., Wang X., Vederas J.C., Oudit G.Y.

PEPTIDES. 2022 January; 147 10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170697


Jordà P., Oudit G.Y., Tadros R.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2022 January; 38 (1):3-5 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.11.013


Xu L., Pagano J., Chow K., Oudit G.Y., Haykowsky M.J., Mikami Y., Howarth A.G., White J.A., Howlett J.G., Dyck J.R.B., Anderson T.J., Ezekowitz J.A., Thompson R.B., Paterson D.I.

ESC Heart Failure. 2021 December; 8 (6):5352-5362 10.1002/ehf2.13626


Gagnon L.R., Sadasivan C., Perera K., Oudit G.Y.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2021 November; S0828-282X (21):00809-6 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.10.008


Nikhanj A., Yogasundaram H., Kimber S., Siddiqi Z.A., Oudit G.Y.

ANNALS OF NONINVASIVE ELECTROCARDIOLOGY. 2021 November; 26 (6) 10.1111/anec.12876


Lim K.R.Q., Sadasivan C., Oudit G.Y.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2021 November; 37 (11):1699-1701 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.06.019


Lim K.R.Q., Shah M.N.A., Woo S., Wilton-Clark H., Zhabyeyev P., Wang F., Maruyama R., Oudit G.Y., Yokota T.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2021 November; 22 (23):12617 10.3390/ijms222312617


Jana S., Aujla P., Hu M., Kilic T., Zhabyeyev P., McCulloch C.A., Oudit G.Y., Kassiri Z.

FASEB JOURNAL. 2021 October; 35 (10) 10.1096/fj.202100038RR


Chen X., Zhabyeyev P., Azad A.K., Vanhaesebroeck B., Grueter C.E., Murray A.G., Kassiri Z., Oudit G.Y.

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2021 August; 157 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2021.04.004


Fernandez K.X., Fischer C., Vu J., Gheblawi M., Wang W., Gottschalk S., Iturrioz X., Llorens-Cortés C., Oudit G.Y., Vederas J.C.

RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 2021 July; 12 (8):1402-1413 10.1039/d1md00120e


Hu M., Jana S., Kilic T., Wang F., Shen M., Winkelaar G., Oudit G.Y., Rayner K., Zhang D.W., Kassiri Z.

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY. 2021 June; 41 (6):1874-1889 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315522


Bozso S.J., Kang J.J.H., Basu R., Adam B., Dyck J.R.B., Oudit G.Y., Moon M.C., Freed D.H., Nagendran J., Nagendran J.

J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2021 June; 14 (3):503-512 10.1007/s12265-020-10080-x


Wang K., Youngson E., Bakal J.A., Thomas J., McAlister F.A., Oudit G.Y.

ESC Heart Failure. 2021 May; 8 (4):3106-3118 10.1002/ehf2.13417


Labib D., Satriano A., Dykstra S., Hansen R., Mikami Y., Guzzardi D.G., Slavikova Z., Feuchter P., Flewitt J., Rivest S., Sandonato R., Lydell C.P., Howarth A.G., Kolman L., Clarke B., Paterson D.I., Oudit G.Y., Pituskin E., Cheung W.Y., Lee J., White J.A.

Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021 May; 10 (9) 10.1161/JAHA.120.019811


Greenwell A.A., Gopal K., Altamimi T.R., Saed C.T., Wang F., Tabatabaei Dakhili S.A., Ho K.L., Zhang L., Eaton F., Kruger J., Batran R.A., Lopaschuk G.D., Oudit G.Y., Ussher J.R.

Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2021 April; 320 (6):H2255-H2269 10.1152/AJPHEART.00873.2020


Yogasundaram H., Alhumaid W., Dzwiniel T., Christian S., Oudit G.Y.

Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2021 April; 37 (4):547-559 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.01.016


Zhabyeyev P., Oudit G.Y.

Blood. 2021 March; 137 (9):1138-1139 10.1182/blood.2020009690


Muus C., Luecken M.D., Eraslan G., Sikkema L., Waghray A., Heimberg G., Kobayashi Y., Vaishnav E.D., Subramanian A., Smillie C., Jagadeesh K.A., Duong E.T., Fiskin E., Triglia E.T., Ansari M., Cai P., Lin B., Buchanan J., Chen S., Shu J., Haber A.L., Chung H., Montoro D.T., Adams T., Aliee H., Allon S.J., Andrusivova Z., Angelidis I., Ashenberg O., Bassler K., Bécavin C., Benhar I., Bergenstråhle J., Bergenstråhle L., Bolt L., Braun E., Bui L.T., Callori S., Chaffin M., Chichelnitskiy E., Chiou J., Conlon T.M., Cuoco M.S., Cuomo A.S.E., Deprez M., Duclos G., Fine D., Fischer D.S., Ghazanfar S., Gillich A., Giotti B., Gould J., Guo M., Gutierrez A.J., Habermann A.C., Harvey T., He P., Hou X., Hu L., Hu Y., Jaiswal A., Ji L., Jiang P., Kapellos T.S., Kuo C.S., Larsson L., Leney-Greene M.A., Lim K., Litvinuková M., Ludwig L.S., Lukassen S., Luo W., Maatz H., Madissoon E., Mamanova L., Manakongtreecheep K., Leroy S., Mayr C.H., Mbano I.M., McAdams A.M., Nabhan A.N., Nyquist S.K., Penland L., Poirion O.B., Poli S., Qi C.C., Queen R., Reichart D., Rosas I., Schupp J.C., Shea C.V., Shi X., Sinha R., Sit R.V., Slowikowski K., Slyper M., Smith N.P., Sountoulidis A., Strunz M., Sullivan T.B., Sun D., Talavera-López C., Tan P., Tantivit J., Travaglini K.J., Tucker N.R., Vernon K.A., Wadsworth M.H., Waldman J., Wang X., Xu K., Yan W., Zhao W., Ziegler C.G.K.

Nature medicine. 2021 March; 27 (3):546-559 10.1038/s41591-020-01227-z


Kirkham AA, Pituskin E, Thompson RB, Mackey JR, Koshman SL, Jassal D, Pitz M, Haykowsky MJ, Pagano JJ, Chow K, Tsui AK, Ezekowitz JA, Oudit GY, Paterson DI

Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Pharmacother. 2021 February; 10.1093/ehjcvp/pvab016


Jamieson K.L., Darwesh A.M., Sosnowski D.K., Zhang H., Shah S., Zhabyeyev P., Yang J., Hammock B.D., Edin M.L., Zeldin D.C., Oudit G.Y., Kassiri Z., Seubert J.M.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021 February; 22 (4):1-22 10.3390/ijms22041691


Putko B.N., Savu A., Kaul P., Ezekowitz J., Dyck J.R., Anderson T.J., White J.A., Paterson D.I., Thompson R.B., Oudit G.Y.

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging. 2021 February; 22 (2):220-228 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa041


Hu M., Jana S., Kilic T., Wang F., Shen M., Winkelaar G., Oudit G.Y., Rayner K., Zhang D.W., Kassiri Z.

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2021 January; 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315522


Viveiros A., Rasmuson J., Vu J., Mulvagh S.L., Yip C.Y.Y., Norris C.M., Oudit G.Y.

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2021 January; 320 (1):H296-H304 10.1152/AJPHEART.00755.2020


Zhang H., Viveiros A., Nikhanj A., Nguyen Q., Wang K., Wang W., Freed D.H., Mullen J.C., MacArthur R., Kim D.H., Tymchak W., Sergi C.M., Kassiri Z., Wang S., Oudit G.Y.

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2021 January; 1867 (1) 10.1016/j.bbadis.2020.165995


Jantuan E., Chiu B., Chiu B., Shen F., Oudit G.Y., Sergi C.

Transl Oncol. 2021 January; 14 (1) 10.1016/j.tranon.2020.100911


Lee S.H., Hadipour-Lakmehsari S., Kim D.H., Di Paola M., Kuzmanov U., Shah S., Lee J.J.H., Kislinger T., Sharma P., Oudit G.Y., Gramolini A.O.

Sci Data. 2020 December; 7 (1) 10.1038/s41597-020-00762-1


Litvinuková M., Talavera-López C., Maatz H., Reichart D., Worth C.L., Lindberg E.L., Kanda M., Polanski K., Heinig M., Lee M., Nadelmann E.R., Roberts K., Tuck L., Fasouli E.S., DeLaughter D.M., McDonough B., Wakimoto H., Gorham J.M., Samari S., Mahbubani K.T., Saeb-Parsy K., Patone G., Boyle J.J., Zhang H., Zhang H., Viveiros A., Oudit G.Y., Bayraktar O.A., Seidman J.G., Seidman C.E., Noseda M., Hubner N., Teichmann S.A.

Nature. 2020 December; 588 (7838):466-472 10.1038/s41586-020-2797-4


Xu L., Pagano J.J., Haykowksy M.J., Ezekowitz J.A., Oudit G.Y., Mikami Y., Howarth A., White J.A., Dyck J.R.B., Anderson T., Paterson D.I., Thompson R.B., Narine K., Beck J., Tanguay L., Armstrong B., Irwin M.

J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2020 December; 22 (1) 10.1186/s12968-020-00680-6