Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death world-wide. It is also the leading cause of hospital admissions and of physical disability and a major cost burden in health care.
Diagnosis, treatment and research endeavors focusing on these disorders therefore require close collaboration across medical specialties. The Cardiovascular Cluster is a multidisciplinary research structure which aims to facilitate synergies between basic and clinical investigators that span the spectrum of cardiovascular research.
This year’s Annual Meeting of the Cardiovascular Cluster will be held on 3rd of November in the Van Swieten Hall of the Medical University of Vienna.
We have been able to attract the following guest speakers:
Mahmhoud Abdelattif (MedUni Graz, AT)
Stefan Kiechl (MedUni Innsbruck, AT)
Christian Müller (Universitätsspital Basel, CH)
Leo Nicolai (LMU München, DE)
Kak Khee Young (UMC, Amsterdam, NL)
We are looking forward to welcoming you at this symposium to further strengthen the cardiovascular community at our University.
Guest speaker, Grants and Call for abstracts
The scientific committee members invite you to submit a one-page proposal for the CVC-Collaborative Research Grants 2025.
The mission of the grants is to enhance scientific collaboration among basic scientists and/or clinicians with a prize money up to 5000 € each for use of the Core Facility.
Up to 5 awards will be given to applicants having the top-rated abstracts.
Applicants have to be full and/or associate members of the cluster, and applications have to contain a topic that is shared by one clinical and one basic science group within the CVC (from two different departments or institutes).
Please, submit a one-page proposal (template enclosed) until 3rd of October, 2025 by email to Helga Lichtblau.
In order to further encourage young scientists to contribute to this meeting, all members are invited to SUBMIT ABSTRACTS, describing their original research in line with the meeting theme.
Following review by the steering committee, authors will be informed, if accepted, whether it will be orally presented or presented as a poster.
Proposals should be submitted as abstracts in accordance with the template.
Submission has to be sent to Helga Lichtblau by 3rd of October 2025 at the latest!