iScience (Oct 2022)
Building an interdisciplinary program of cardiovascular research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology– the ETHeart story
- Andreas P. Kourouklis,
- Xi Wu,
- Robin C. Geyer,
- Vasileios Exarchos,
- Timo Nazari,
- Julius Kaemmel,
- Konstantinos Magkoutas,
- Marianne Schmid Daners,
- Miriam Weisskopf,
- Lucrezia Maini,
- Cosmin Roman,
- Jasper Iske,
- Georgios A. Pappas,
- Mary Jialu Chen,
- Caroline Smid,
- Axel Unbehaun,
- Alexander Meyer,
- Maximilian Emmert,
- Aldo Ferrari,
- Corina Schuett,
- Dimos Poulikakos,
- Edoardo Mazza,
- Volkmar Falk,
- Nikola Cesarovic
Affiliations
- Andreas P. Kourouklis
- Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Xi Wu
- Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Robin C. Geyer
- Department of Computer Science, Institute for Machine Learning, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Vasileios Exarchos
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Timo Nazari
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Julius Kaemmel
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Konstantinos Magkoutas
- Product Development Group Zurich, Material and Fabrication, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Marianne Schmid Daners
- Product Development Group Zurich, Material and Fabrication, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Miriam Weisskopf
- Hochschulmedizin Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Lucrezia Maini
- Micro- and Nanosystems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Cosmin Roman
- Micro- and Nanosystems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Jasper Iske
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Georgios A. Pappas
- Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Mary Jialu Chen
- Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Caroline Smid
- Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Axel Unbehaun
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Translational Cardiovascular Technologies, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Alexander Meyer
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Maximilian Emmert
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Aldo Ferrari
- Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland; Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Corina Schuett
- Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Dimos Poulikakos
- Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Edoardo Mazza
- Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Volkmar Falk
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Translational Cardiovascular Technologies, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Nikola Cesarovic
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Translational Cardiovascular Technologies, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland; Corresponding author
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 25,
no. 10
p. 105157
Abstract
In this backstory, researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) who initiated an interdisciplinary program to generate innovative solutions for different cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, valvular replacement, and movement-based rehabilitation therapy, discuss the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research.
