Cardiac Safety Committee

Mission Statement

The mission of the HESI Cardiac Safety Committee is to improve public health by reducing unanticipated cardiovascular-related adverse effects from drugs or chemicals, and to develop innovative approaches to support early detection and prediction as well as improved understanding of cardiovascular toxicology and pathobiology.

Cardiac Safety Early Career Seminar Award Series

The HESI Cardiac Safety Committee seeks Postdoctoral or Early Career researchers working in cardiovascular safety science or related field for the Early Career Seminar Award Series. This award offers an opportunity to share your research, learn from and network with experts in the toxicology and safety pharmacology fields from academia, regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies.

  • Award: Selected candidates will receive a $500.00 USD award and be invited to present their research on a public webinar with HESI Cardiac Safety Committee scientists and other invited guests. Webinar dates will be scheduled with the awardees in Q1 2025.
  • Qualifications and Requirements: Eligible candidates must have a PhD or equivalent degree in biology or related field (cell biology, biochemistry, pathology, biomechanical engineering, or similar); have current post-doc position/appointment or consider themselves an early career scientist (~1-5 years post-academic training) and may not have previously received an award under this program. Open to both domestic and international applicants.
  • Application: To apply, please send 1 PDF document with the following: 1) completed application form, 2) CV, and 3) one reference letter: to Jennifer Pierson or Claire O’Brien at cardiacsafety@hesiglobal.org.
  • Deadline for Submission: 15 November 2024

Working Groups

  • Stem Cell Working Group

    This group is working to understand and characterize use of stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes in cardiac safety assessments. An article that included best practices for use of stem cell cardiomyocytes in cardiac safety assessments was published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. A new group is planning a study to explore in vitro assay ability to detect cardiotoxicity.

    Leadership Team:
    Ksenia Blinova, PhD (US Food and Drug Administration)
    Godfrey Smith, PhD (University of Glasgow)

    HESI Staff:
    Jennifer Pierson, MPH

  • Pro-Arrhythmia Working Group

    This working group is dedicated to investigating mechanisms of proarrhythmic risk. They continue to collaborate with the CiPA Initiative and ICH, and recently published its anticipated high throughput systems (HTS) ion channel work. A new subteam is scoping a conduction/ sodium channel paper to discuss the history and challenges surrounding this topic.

    A 3-phased project was conducted by the HESI Pro-Arrhythmia Working Group starting with a detailed literature review and followed by a collaborative HESI-FDA database of 150 new drug candidates to evaluate how predictive nonclinical studies are to clinical outcomes.

    • Related Publication: The Challenges of Predicting Drug-Induced QTc Prolongation in Humans. Jean-Pierre Valentin, Peter Hoffmann, Catherine Ortemann-Renon, John Koerner, Jennifer Pierson, Gary Gintant, James Willard, Christine Garnett, Matthew Skinner, Hugo M Vargas, Todd Wisialowski, Michael K Pugsley. Toxicological Sciences. 11 February 2022

     

    Leadership Team:
    Jose Vicente Ruize, PhD (US Food and Drug Administration)
    Jean-Pierre Valentin, PhD (UCB Biopharma)

    HESI Staff:
    Jennifer Pierson, MPH

  • Integrative Strategies Working Group

    This working group has examined the sensitivity within a preclinical species to assess the function of contractility. They continue their partnership with University of Surrey and Imperial College London on a mathematical model to predict blood pressure changes. The Implanted Telemetry Subteam explored the impact of telemetry lead placement in toxicology studies (a collaboration with the Pro-Arrhythmia Working Group).

    Leadership Team:
    Michael Pugsley, PhD (Cytokinetics)
    Sandy Eldridge, PhD (National Cancer Institute)

    HESI Staff:
    Jennifer Pierson, MPH
    Claire O’Brien, PhD

  • Cardiac Biomarkers Working Group

    This working group is dedicated to investigating preclinical cardiac biomarkers of hypercoagulability induced under a thrombotic state, in both normal and diseased states. A manuscript was submitted detailing a study investigating the effects of doxorubicin in Zucker diabetic fatty rats. A new study is in the planning stages using xenobiotics to induce the procoagulant state and confirm measurements of biomarkers of interest.

    Leadership Team:
    Eric Schultze, PhD (Eli Lilly & Company)
    Marjory Brooks, DVM (Cornell University)

  • Cardiac Compound Tool (CCT) Database Subteam

    The Cardiac Safety Steering Team established this subteam in early 2020 to develop and provide a structured resource for use when identifying compounds appropriate in a planned committee study. The database was published April 2024.

    HESI Staff:
    Jennifer Pierson, MPH

  • FDA U01 Validating Stem Cell Technology

    HESI has been awarded a multi-year U01 grant from the US FDA on the “Evaluation of Integrated Human-Relevant Approaches to Identify Drug Induced Cardiovascular Liabilities.” This grant supports HESI in funding and managing novel, in vitro experimental studies to develop targeted mechanistic data to inform drug safety assessment for key cardiac “failure modes.”

  • FDA BAA Ion Channel Patch Clamp Study

    HESI received a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) award from the US FDA to manage a multi-site study on manual and automated patch clamp platforms. The original study included 4 ionic currents (hERG, Nav1.5 peak, Nav1.5 late and Cav1.2) and 14 compounds and has been expanded to include a total of 28 compounds. The project aims to collect additional information on inter-laboratory variability as well as support the FDA in silico model. Learn more about the recommended ion channel protocols and in silico model here.

HESI Staff

Leadership Team

  • Jean-Pierre Valentin, PhD, HDR, ERT, FRSB, FRCPath, DSP

    UCB

  • Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD

    US Food and Drug Administration

Posters

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Committee Events

HESI Cardiac Safety Early Career Webinar Series – Louise Hesketh

HESI Cardiac Safety Early Career Webinar Series, Virtual

The HESI Cardiac Safety Committee is pleased to announce the second webinar in their 2023 Early Career Seminar Award Series. This competitive award is given to postdoctoral or early career scientists who have compelling research related to cardiovascular safety and risk assessment, and the webinar series offers an opportunity ...

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HESI Cardiac Safety Early Career Webinar Series – Loukia Yiangou

HESI Cardiac Safety Early Career Webinar Series, Virtual

The HESI Cardiac Safety Committee is pleased to announce the first webinar in their 2023 Early Career Seminar Award Series. This competitive award is given to postdoctoral or early career scientists who have compelling research related to cardiovascular safety and risk assessment, and the webinar series offers an opportunity ...

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Cardiac Safety Annual Business Meeting

Virtual, Internal Committee Meeting

The HESI Cardiac Safety Committee will convene their annual business meeting on 6 April 2023. The mission of the HESI Cardiac Safety Committee is to improve public health by reducing unanticipated cardiovascular-related adverse effects from drugs or chemicals, and to develop innovative approaches to support early detection ...

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Committee Publications

Moving Towards Better Predictors of Drug‐Induced Torsades de Pointes

Drug-induced torsades de pointes (TdP) remains a significant public health concern that has challenged scientists who have the responsibility of advancing new medicines through development to the patient, while assuring public safety.

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Non-Lethal Endotoxin Injection: A Rat Model of Hypercoagulability

This article characterizes a time course model of inflammation and hemostatic activation in rats treated with bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) through a combination of traditional histologic and clinicopathologic endpoints and analyses of novel circulating biomarkers, including microRNA (miRNA) and ...

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Rechanneling the Cardiac Proarrhythmia Safety Paradigm: A Meeting Report From the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium

This white paper provides a summary of a scientific proposal presented at a Cardiac Safety Research Consortium/Health and Environmental Sciences Institute/Food and Drug Administration–sponsored Think Tank, held at Food and Drug Administration's White Oak facilities, Silver Spring, MD, on July 23, 2013, with the intention ...

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Repolarization Studies Using Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes: Validation Studies and Best Practice Recommendations

Human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hSC-CMs) hold great promise as in vitro models to study the electrophysiological effects of novel drug candidates on human ventricular repolarization. Two recent large validation studies have demonstrated the ability of hSC-CMs to detect drug-induced delayed ...

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The Challenges of Predicting Drug-Induced QTc Prolongation in Humans

New publication in Toxicological Sciences by the HESI Cardiac Safety Committee shows that nonclinical models used to predict cardiac safety during drug development do not absolutely replicate the clinical conditions; however, best practices can be used to improve the nonclinical assay quality and achieve the ...

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