Cardiovascular Diseases
The Cardiovascular Diseases module offers comprehensive theoretical and hands-on experimental training in the field of cardiovascular diseases leading to a Ph.D. degree.
Vascular biology is central to many debilitating disease processes including heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer and inflammatory diseases. Indeed vascular disease is the leading cause of disability and death in the Western world. Future bedside cures for vascular disease will ultimately emanate from a multidisciplinary understanding of vascular function in health and disease.
The goal of our program is to convey an integrated understanding of major vascular processes at multiple levels including development, signaling, microvascular and organ level physiology, genetics and immunology. We also highlight how such processes may be exploited to combat vascular pathologies. A range of vascular diseases will be explored including atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke, shock, hypertension and tumor angiogenesis.
State of the art approaches for studying cardiovascular diseases will be addressed including, among others, live cell imaging, genetically engineered animal models, and molecularly targeted disease imaging. Thus, students graduating from the PEMM Cardiovascular Diseases program will be ideally trained for translational research of vascular diseases.
