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

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105157

Building an interdisciplinary program of cardiovascular research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- the ETHeart story

iScience. 2022 Sep 27;25(10):105157. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105157. eCollection 2022 Oct 21.

Authors

Andreas P Kourouklis¹, Xi Wu¹, Robin C Geyer², Vasileios Exarchos³, Timo Nazari³, Julius Kaemmel³, Konstantinos Magkoutas⁴, Marianne Schmid Daners⁴, Miriam Weisskopf⁵, Lucrezia Maini⁶, Cosmin Roman⁶, Jasper Iske³, Georgios A Pappas⁷, Mary Jialu Chen⁷, Caroline Smid⁷, Axel Unbehaun^{3

8}, Alexander Meyer³, Maximilian Emmert³, Aldo Ferrari^{1

9

10}, Corina Schuett¹, Dimos Poulikakos¹⁰, Edoardo Mazza^{1

9}, Volkmar Falk^{3

8}, Nikola Cesarovic^{3

8}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Mechanical Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Department of Computer Science, Institute for Machine Learning, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Product Development Group Zurich, Material and Fabrication, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁵ Hochschulmedizin Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁶ Micro- and Nanosystems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁷ Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁸ Translational Cardiovascular Technologies, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
⁹ EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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.

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