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Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute Opens in Henrietta
The University of Rochester Medical Center opens the Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI). More than 100 scientists, students and technicians, currently housed across the Medical Center's campus, will be brought together under one roof.
The 12 cardiovascular research laboratories moving to the new institute currently conduct more than 50 research projects with the goal of furthering the understanding of heart disease. Projects range from the design of novel diagnostic approaches to research into how atherosclerotic plaque builds up in arteries to efforts to identify genes that control heart failure. Along with cardiovascular scientists, the newly renovated facility will house 12 researchers from Functional Genomics, a core facility that services researchers throughout the University and Medical Center, providing analysis of genetic material using state-of-the-art techniques.
For details on the center, read University of Rochester to Purchase Wyeth Research Building.
A major component of our efforts also centers on the training of students, residents, and cardiology clinical and research fellows. By utilizing a full time academic faculty with significant research interests and abilities and the clinical and research resources of the University and the Hospital, we are able to provide training programs that produce well rounded clinical and research cardiologists. Our graduates are routinely sought out for top positions in both clinical and research institutions in the region and around the nation.
Advancing our understanding of the basic mechanisms responsible for normal and pathological function of the cardiovascular system.
