Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC)

The growing burden of cardiovascular disease is due to an inadequate understanding of the underlying mechanisms and factors that trigger its development. The mission of the CTEC is to support interdisciplinary research in basic, translational and clinical cardiovascular sciences, including heart failure, cardiomyopathies, cardiac arrhythmias, genetics, epigenetics and immunity, and to use this knowledge to develop innovative therapies and approaches.

The goals of the CTEC are:

• To create a forward-looking and collaborative environment in which scientists and cardiologists can work together to achieve common goals in cardiovascular care;
• Supporting basic and translational research that can be translated into therapies and improve patient care;
• Dissemination of knowledge through lectures, seminars, special mentoring programs for translational cardiology and other educational opportunities;
• Promotion of multidisciplinary research in the laboratories and departments of the University of Zurich and in collaboration with external institutions;
• Helping researchers develop a plan for translating research findings into effective cardiovascular therapies

Name of the different research groups:

• Cardiovascular Epigenetics (Prof. Dr. med. Francesco Paneni)
• Atherosclerosis(Prof. Dr. med. Christian Matter)
• Cardio-Immunology (Prof. Burkhard Ludewig)
• Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy (ACM) Research (Prof. Dr. med. Firat Duru)
• Vascular function & volume regulation (Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Flammer, Prof. Dr. med. Isabella Sudano)
• Valvular Heart Disease (Prof. Dr. med. Felix Tanner)
• Therapeutic Strategies for Heart Repair(Dr. med. Philipp Jakob)
• Ventricular Arrhythmias (PD Dr. med. Ardan Saguner)
• Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart (Dr. Sarah Costantino)
• Cardiac Regeneration (Dr. med. Bernhard Haubner)
• Protein Misfolding (Dr. med. Marco Luciani)
• The Andreas Grüntzig Clinical Research Center and Core Lab (Prof. Barbara Stähli)
• Research Group: Cardiovascular Aging(Group Leader: Dr. Soheil Saeedi)
• Cardiac Surgery (Prof. Dr. med. Omer Dzemali & PD Dr. med. Héctor Rodriguez Cetina Biefer)
• Sports Cardiology (Prof. Dr. med. Christian Schmied & PD Dr. med. David Niederseer)
• Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System (Dr. med. Stefanos Zafeiropoulos)