We have been awarded a joint U.S. patent with Mayo Clinic for systems and methods for epicardial pacing, ablation, and defibrillation. Epicardial “outer” heart surface is often crucial for treatment of arrhythmias but cannot not be reached by standard venous or arterial access. Thus, percutaneous techniques were developed using novel devices, as manipulation vastly differs. […]
The head of the Cell and Tissue Engineering Facility of FNUSA-ICRC Associate Professor Irena Koutna, Ph.D. is now collaborating with Dr. Quinn Peterson of Mayo Clinic‘s Center for Regenerative Medicine. The collaboration aims to translate research into induced pluripotent stem cells into clinical applications. “The aim of the whole project is to prepare a cell structure […]
Following last year’s visit of the Heads of Cardiology Research Teams of the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) at the University of Medicine and the General Hospital in Vienna Prof. Christian Hengstenberg – Head of the Department of Cardiology and his colleague Professor Julia Mascherbauer – Head of the […]
