Michael Chu, Western University

Research

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Latest papers

Immunogenicity and safety of a third and subsequent COVID-19 vaccine doses in patients with plasma cell dyscrasias
Blood advances · 2026
The 1000 Mitoses Project: A Consensus-Based International Collaborative Study on Mitotic Figures Classification.
International journal of surgical pathology · 2024
The Ross Procedure for Aortic Valve Disease: Radical or Routine?
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia · 2021 · first author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Comparing hypOtherMic teMperaturEs duriNg hemiarCh surgEry: COMMENCE Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$910,350
Smooth muscle cell diversity and thoracic aorta vulnerability
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$852,975
Ross for Valve replacement in AduLts (REVIVAL) trial
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$336,600

All 6 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Immunogenicity and safety of a third and subsequent COVID-19 vaccine doses in patients with plasma cell dyscrasias

Bhella S, Agbayani G, Hueniken K, Vijenthira A, Wilkin AM, Sebag M, Wang P, Hicks LK, Hay AE, Hosseini-Moghaddam SM

Blood advances2026

DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025018117

02

The 1000 Mitoses Project: A Consensus-Based International Collaborative Study on Mitotic Figures Classification.

Lin S, Tran C, Bandari E, Romagnoli T, Li Y, Chu M, Amirthakatesan AS, Dallmann A, Kostiukov A, Panizo A, Hodgson A, Laury AR, Polonia A, Stueck AE, Menon AA, Morini A, Özamrak B, Cooper C, Trinidad CMG, Eisenlöffel C, Suleiman DE, Suster D, Dorward DA, Aljufairi EA, Maclean F, Gul G, Sansano I, Erana-Rojas IE, Machado I, Kholova I, Karunanithi J, Gibier JB, Schulte JJ, Li JJX, Kini JR, Collins K, Galea LA, Muller L, Cima L, Nova-Camacho LM, Dabner M, Muscara MJ, Hanna MG, Agoumi M, Wiebe NJP, Oswald NK, Zahra N, Folaranmi OO, Kravtsov O, Semerci O, Patil NN, Muthusamy Sundar P, Charles P, Kumaraswamy Rajeswaran P, Zhang Q, van der Griend R, Pillappa R, Perret R, Gonzalez RS, Reed RC, Patil S, Jiang XS, Qayoom S, Prendeville S, Baskota SU, Tran TT, San TH, Kukkonen TM, Kendall TJ, Taskin T, Rutland T, Manucha V, Cockenpot V, Rosen Y, Rodriguez-Velandia YP, Ordulu Z, Cecchini MJ

International journal of surgical pathology2024

DOI: 10.1177/10668969241234321 PMID: 38627896

03

The Ross Procedure for Aortic Valve Disease: Radical or Routine?

Chu M, Bainbridge D

Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia2021First author

DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.06.005 PMID: 34247926

04

Protocol for a randomised controlled trial for Treatment in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Surgery versus Surveillance (TITAN: SvS).

Guo MH, Appoo JJ, Wells GA, Chu M, Ouzounian M, Fortier J, Boodhwani M

BMJ open2021

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052070 PMID: 34039580

05

High-dose tranexamic Acid is associated with nonischemic clinical seizures in cardiac surgical patients.

Murkin JM, Falter F, Granton J, Young B, Burt C, Chu M

Anesthesia and analgesia2010Senior author

DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181c92b23 PMID: 19996135

Comparing hypOtherMic teMperaturEs duriNg hemiarCh surgEry: COMMENCE Trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Boodhwani, Munir

Keywords: Acute Kidney Injury; Aortic Arch; Aortic Surgery; Hypothermia; Randomized Clinical Trial; Stroke

$910,350

Smooth muscle cell diversity and thoracic aorta vulnerability

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Pickering, J. Geoffrey

Keywords: Aorta; Senescence; Transcriptome; Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell

$852,975

Ross for Valve replacement in AduLts (REVIVAL) trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Whitlock, Richard; El-Hamamsy, Ismail

Keywords: Aortic Valve Replacement; Cardiac Surgery; Clinical Trial; Ross Procedure

$336,600

Program for Image-guided Minimally Invasive Surgery and Therapy (PI-MIST)

Co-investigatorCIHR2014Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Peters, Terence M

Keywords: Image Processing; Image-Guided Interventions; Surgery; Virtual Reality; Visualization

$2,274,483

Improving the Assessment and Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis by Evaluating Care Gaps and Advancing Risk Predictions

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Ko, Dennis

Keywords: Aortic Stenosis; Appropriateness Of Care; Care Gaps; Competing Risks Of Death; Heatlh Services Research; Risk Prediction Models

$100,000

Image-guided Mitral Valve Repair

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Peters, Terence M

Keywords: Cardiac; Image Fusion; Image-Guidance; Mechatronics; Surgery; Valve Repair

$711,980

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Medicine
Medicine
Department of Surgery
Oncology
Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Cardiac Surgery
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2021

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