Promising Research in Heart Disease

The University of Chicago Hospitals is an academic medical center, a hospital where physicians and scientists are researching the newest treatments and discovering tomorrow's medical breakthroughs. We are proud to be one of the oldest National Institutes of Health-funded cardiovascular research program in the nation. Our physician-scientists benefit from millions of dollars in annual research support to study heart disease.

All of our heart specialists are studying new ways to diagnose and treat heart problems, from state-of-the-art tests and advanced drug therapies, to unique, life-saving surgical procedures. In addition, many of our physician-scientists are examining basic questions in molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, and biochemistry of the cardiovascular system, which, in turn, helps to develop novel therapies for many forms of heart disease. Because of this standard of innovation, University of Chicago Hospitals heart experts can often offer treatments long before they are available elsewhere.