Independence Blue Cross Cardiovascular Research Center
INDEPENDENCE BLUE CROSS
cardiovascular research center
The Independence Blue Cross Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) is a consortium of basic and clinical scientists with a broad mission to better define the causes and cures of cardiovascular diseases. Operationally, the CVRC facilitates multilevel, interdisciplinary collaborations that help target basic research towards clinical challenges and enables translation of discoveries into novel approaches for the detection, treatment and prevention of debilitating cardiovascular disorders. Our major research themes at present are:
- Cellular and molecular bases of human heart failure, and
- Biology of cardiac recovery and reverse remodeling
Other research themes include:
- Biology of proliferative arteriopathy (restenosis and allograft arteriopathy)
- Transplant immunology
- Device-based therapies for heart failure
- Exercise physiology
- Endothelial modulation of vascular tone
- Cardiac developmental biology
- Role of stem cells in myocardial repair
A wide spectrum of in vitro techniques, relevant animal models and patient-based research methods are employed by CVRC investigators.
Contact Information:
Independence Blue Cross Cardiovascular Research
Center
Temple University School of Medicine
3500 N. Broad Street
10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19140
T: 215-707-4045
F: 215-707-5737
patricia.parker@temple.edu
In the News 2009/2010:
5.05.10: Temple study points to cardiovascular benefits of brown rice
10.23.09: Houser makes history at the School of Medicine with prestigious MERIT award
