Division of Cardiovascular Diseases

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & SURGERY BRANCH

The Advanced Technologies and Surgery Branch conducts and manages an integrated basic and clinical research program to study innovative and developing technologies for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of CVD. It promotes opportunities to translate promising scientific and technological advances from discovery through pre-clinical studies to clinical trials. Areas supported by the Branch include:

• Diagnostics: proteomic, genomic, and other biomarker technologies and imaging modalities/agents to identify CVD and guide therapy.
• Therapeutics: tissue, cell-, and gene-based/guided therapies; regenerative and reparative medicine; and devices for circulatory and cardiac support and repair.
• Surgery: improved surgical and image-guided approaches and evidence-based clinical research to advance promising new cardiovascular therapies, technologies, and surgical practices into clinical use.
• Enabling Technologies: bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, bioengineering, nanotechnology, materials research, and personalized medicine.

The Advanced Technologies and Surgery Branch, DCVD may be contacted at 301-435-0513.

• Denis Buxton, Ph.D., Branch Chief
  
  
• Marissa Miller, D.V.M., M.P.H., Acting Deputy Branch Chief

September 2008