From bench to bedside, research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine improves the lives of people with cardiovascular disease.
In addition to our robust investigator-led research programs, our faculty lead two nationally recognized interdisciplinary centers: the University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Research Center and the UW Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. Our research infrastructure includes comprehensive physiology and imaging services that when coupled with campus core labs and services result in an unparalleled research environment. More about our department’s research environment.
Our investigators work to transform medicine every day. Get to know them below.
Arrhythmias and Ion Channels
Basic and translational research:
- Alvarado: Regulating Cardiac Ion Channels
- Eckhardt: Cellular Mechanisms of Arrhythmia Syndromes
- Glukhov: Subcellular Nanodomains in Arrthymias
- Kamp: Understanding Arrhythmias and Advancing Cardiac Regeneration
- Valdivia: Calcium-triggered Arrhythmias
Clinical research: Arrhythmias and Ion Channels
Arterial Disease and Preventive Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease
Basic and translational research:
- Ramratnam: Cardiac Metabolism and Pathways
- Raval: Clinical-Translational Regenerative Medicine for Patients with Advanced Cardiovascular Disease
Clinical research: Interventional Cardiology
Heart Failure
Basic and translational research:
- Dhingra: Advanced heart disease and transplant
- Glukhov: Subcellular Nanodomains in Arrthymias
- Kamp: Understanding Arrhythmias and Advancing Cardiac Regeneration
- Raval: Clinical-Translational Regenerative Medicine for Patients with Advanced Cardiovascular Disease
- Raza: Exercise Intolerance in Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Failure
Clinical research: Heart Failure