Department of Angiology

Inselspital Bern

The research activities of the Department focus on congenital vascular malformations, risk factors, and their modulation in peripheral artery disease, atherosclerosis, and atherothrombosis.

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Profile

  • Teaching programs, student lectures and courses (clinical skills), PBL, weekly internal & Medical Division Cardiovascular lectures
  • Research projects comprise analysis, classification and computational hemodynamic modeling of congenital vascular malformations, risk factor analysis, and risk factor modulating therapies in peripheral artery disease, basic atherosclerosis and atherothrombosis research, integration of omics technologies in research of vascular malformations and atherosclerosis, drug therapy, and endovascular management of venous thromboembolism.

External Partners

  • Switzerland: Department of Angiology from University Hospital Basel & University Hospital Zürich; Cantonal Hospital Luzern; Department of Vascular Surgery, Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen; Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
  • Germany: Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, University Hospital LMU Munich; West German Morbus Osler Center, University Hospital Essen; Department for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, LMU Munich; Center of Cardiology & Angiology, University Medical Center Mainz
  • USA: Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Denver, Colorado
  • Italy: Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan
  • United Kingdom: Cardiovascular Strategic Research Initiative Institution, University of Cambridge
  • Canada: Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal
  • Belgium: De Duve Institute, University of Louvain, Brussels

Grants

  • Swiss Heart Foundation Research Grant «Establishing deep phenotyping of arteriovenous malformations», Dr. Sarah Bernhard