Research
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
RESEARCH
Zhen Yan, PhD, associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Cardiovascular research holds enormous promise for bringing innovative strategies to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. The division’s physicians and scientists seek a better understanding of the cellular and genetic underpinnings of cardiovascular disease, while actively participating in clinical trials to evaluate new treatment modalities.
The division’s medical research buildings are close to University Hospital, facilitating daily collaboration; a core group of research nurses coordinate the many ongoing clinical trials in the fields of cardiovascular imaging, interventional cardiology, and cardiac electrophysiology. The division’s laboratory facilities include:
- Two state-of-the-art operating rooms: one sterile, for surgery on the chronic canine model and equipped with an ultrasound machine, gamma camera and fluoroscopy unit; the other nonsterile, for acute canine experiments using ultrasound.
- A nonsterile operating room for nuclear imaging, equipped with a two-head gamma camera.
- Microscopy laboratory.
- Wet laboratory for chemistry, histology and in vitro studies.