Cardiovascular
Leaders in Cutting-Edge Cardiovascular Research
Preclinical
Our models have been used to explore novel therapeutics, medical devices and groundbreaking tissue-engineering research and can be tailored to meet your needs. Your study will be supported by in-house core laboratories, such as the Biomarker Analytical and Ultrasound VEVO LAZR cores; a diet lab; a GLP-compliant large-animal surgical suite and non-invasive imaging modalities, like echocardiography and quantitative angiography. These resources give us the capability to research unique aspects of cardiovascular diseases.
Key Areas of Research
- Diet-induced coronary and peripheral artery atherosclerosis
- Myocardial infarction
- Angioplasty and arterial stenting
- Myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury
- Age-related cardiovascular disease
- Diet and hormone effects of atherosclerosis
- Anthracycline-induced heart failure
- Substance abuse related cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension
- Mechanical tissue resuscitation
Clinical
Whether you’re trying to make heart surgery safer or improve imaging techniques to prevent acute cardiovascular events, our researchers are committed to bringing your cutting-edge research to their patients. Wake Forest Baptist demonstrates its dedication to this disease state through its two centers: the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center that supports research from basic science to clinical studies—including technical support such as biomarker analysis and imaging—and the Heart and Vascular Center that manages patient care.
Key Areas of Research
- Diagnosis and treatment of heart failure
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Structural heart disease
- Hypertension
- Atherosclerosis
- Carotid disease
- Aneurysms
- Arrhythmias
- Cardiovascular imaging and simulation modeling
- Renal and mesenteric artery disease
- Hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke
- Interventional cardiology therapies (therapeutics, devices, stem cells)
- Genomics, metabolomics, proteomics related to heart disease