Prof Francine Marques
@FZMarques
Viertel @nhmrc & @HeartFoundation Fellow & #Hypertension Lab Head @MonashVHI /BDI. Gut microbes, 🐶 lover, #Cancer survivor @Science_Academy Gottschalk🏅she/her
It was graduation day today 🤩 Congratulations to Dr @ChudanXu & 2 of honours students who graduated today 🤩 and a big thanks to our amazing team for helping to celebrate it (wait until she sees her desk tomorrow 🥹) @MonashUni @MonashVHI
Hypertension and the Gut Microbiome: A Science Advisory From @American_Heart ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HY… via @FZMarques et al
Full paper here 👇👇👇 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HY…
Approximately 15–20% of patients with hypertension have treatment-resistant hypertension, highlighting the need for novel approaches to blood pressure management. Recent advances in gut microbiome and hypertension research suggest a novel therapeutic opportunity: targeting the…
Published today, Hypertension and the Gut Microbiome: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association Recent advances in gut microbiome and hypertension research suggest a novel therapeutic opportunity: targeting the gut microbiome to control blood pressure. ✍🏼…
Excited to see this out The gut microbiome has a lot of potential to treat human hypertension but are we there yet? Find out 👇👇👇
Approximately 15–20% of patients with hypertension have treatment-resistant hypertension, highlighting the need for novel approaches to blood pressure management. Recent advances in gut microbiome and hypertension research suggest a novel therapeutic opportunity: targeting the…
Amazing 🤩
Excited to share a milestone published in @NatureMedicine from our decade-long effort to build The Human Phenotype Project, a unique longitudinal cohort with unmatched depth of clinical and multi-omic profiling, enabling truly predictive, personalized medicine. Led together with…
Wow these are amazing
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Today I went to my daughter’s childcare to talk to the toddlers about heart health and gut microbes ❤️ They were very excited to tell me about their fav fruits and veggies Big thanks to @nsegata @cibiocm for the toy microbes 🦠🙏 @MonashVHI @heartfoundation @MonashUni
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Love this quote by Ed Catmull (@Pixar) “If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they’ll screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they’ll make it work.” Team psychological safety is one of the key elements of building great teams
A great session! Congratulations to all speakers including our PhD student Chaoran Yang His paper 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @MonashVHI @MonashBDI anmj.org.au/what-can-your-…
That's a wrap for #MVIF 40 in Pacific zone THANK YOU to #microbiome people who tuned in & all the amazing speakers! 📢 you can submit your work for October and November microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info/h…
How can a high-fibre shake protect your heart? ♥️ New @MonashUni research from @FZMarques lab shows SCFAs - produced when gut bugs digest fibre - activate receptors that cut cardiovascular risk by 20%. Read: bit.ly/43IRTxw
Melbourne researchers have uncovered a way to help people lower their risk of cardiovascular disease - simply by drinking a shake. @LanaMurphy #9News
Our paper published in Card Res and our new trial were featured in the @theheraldsun today 👇👇👇 Link to newspaper: heraldsun.com.au/health/diet/nu… Link to paper: academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/… Link to trial: marqueslab.com/trials
Thank you for the invitation to write this review @CircRes 🙏
@CircRes Interorgan Crosstalk in #HF & #Cardiometabolic Diseases Compendium #Gut-Heart Axis: The Role of Gut #Microbiota & #Metabolites in Heart Failure ahajrnls.org/4jzeEdn Authored by @matt_snelson & colleagues. @WilsonTangMD @FZMarques @inanna_nalytica @rikeishm
Calling all early career researchers and. PhD students (and others of course). Spread widely people. See you there. 👇👇👇
Registration and abstract submissions are now OPEN for the VIC Annual Scientific Meeting! Date: Thursday, 31 July 2025 Venue: Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 – 727 Collins Street, Docklands Abstract submissions close on 22 June 2025. Submit here: asmr.org.au/vic/
Big thanks to editors @gabrieleschiat1 & @mkontari and @CircRes for the opportunity to write one of the interorgan crosstalk reviews in #heartfailure If you want to learn more about the gut-heart axis, check out ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI… Authors include @Matt_Snelson @rikeishm ++
@CircRes May 23rd Issue is Out! Compendium on Interorgan Crosstalk in Heart Failure and Cardiometabolic Diseases In this issue read 14 reviews & 5 Research Letters: ahajrnls.org/4kaMnLo @gabrieleschiat1 @mkontari