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The Cardiovascular Sciences Small Business Activities Special Emphasis Panel reviews small business grant applications related to the general areas of cardiac and circulatory system diagnostics, devices and therapies. Projects are included at all levels of organization ranging from in vitro cell and tissue model systems through whole organisms. The stages of product development included range from the basic design/development stage through the clinical research stage. The broad range of topics and approaches covered in this study section include the following:

• Cardiology, cardiac function, heart failure, myocardial ischemia, reperfusion injury, stents, thrombosis/thrombolysis, imaging, monitoring systems
• Electrophysiology, arrhythmias, sudden death, pacing, arrhythmia ablation
• Cardiac and vascular surgery
• Cell therapy and novel approaches to tissue repair/regeneration
• Emergency medicine, laboratory medicine, clinical chemistry, biomarkers, resuscitation
• Lipid disorders, atherosclerosis
• Biomedical and tissue engineering, biomaterials
• Hypertension
• Gene therapy and gene delivery systems
• Physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, proteomics

Study Sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Vascular and Hematology IRG [VH] 
Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering IRG [SBIB] 
Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies IRG [BST] 
Cell Biology IRG [CB] 
Biology of Development and Aging IRG [BDA]