CONTICA: Control of Intracellular Calcium and Arrhythmias
The major scientific objective of the CONTICA project is to determine the subcellular mechanisms underlying fatal arrhythmias related to dysfunction of the SR Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor, RyR2).
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The next Contica Meeting will take place in Utrecht (Netherlands) from 19-20th March 2009
CONTICA meeting was held in Bratislava (Slovakia) from 20-22th Feb 2008.
The second period of the project will be coordinated from Graz (Austria), where Prof. Pieske became Head of the Division of Cardiology at the Medical University of Graz.

Contica Annual Meeting took place in Montpellier, 29-31 March 2007.
Dr. Simon Sedej has joined the group of Prof. Dr. Burkert Pieske in Göttingen and will be working on the CONTICA project.
The CONTICA start-up meeting took place in Göttingen, February 24-25. Prof. Dr. Burkert Pieske welcomed and thanked everyone for the teamwork during the preparation of the project and introduced the consortium partners from the various countries and the integrative workplan of CONTICA.