Tools and Resources

TRCHR funds two biobanks holding extensive collections of human blood and cardiovascular tissue specimens at our children’s and adult hospital partners.

As cancer therapies improve, more patients survive long-term. But treatments can affect the heart, a condition called cardiotoxicity, monitored throughout care.

Heart failure is a top cause of hospitalization. The EHMRG Calculator helps emergency physicians identify which patients are stable and which need further hospital care.

GeneTerpret, from our Cardiac Genome Clinic, helps researchers and clinicians assess genome sequencing data and identify disease-causing variants faster and more accurately.

Explore videos on DNA, inheritance, genetic variation, and testing, created to help people with lived experience understand the genetics of the heart at their own pace.

Heart Hub is TRCHR’s education site for people with lived experience and caregivers, covering heart function, managing care, healthy living, and community supports.

Learn to measure global longitudinal strain (GLS) using echocardiography, and get personalized feedback from our cardio-oncology team on real patient cases.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in youth, preventable with timely defibrillator use. Assessing a child’s real risk has long been a challenge.

TRCHR develops precise, predictive digital health tools that help Canadians with heart failure stay safe at home, with specialized care once only available in clinic.