Basic Research Projects

Cardiovascular research at UC San Diego include investigations in:

• Heart Failure
  • Development
  • Viruses and innate cardiac immune response
  • Adrenergic signaling –pre clinical and clinical
• Atherosclerosis
  • Role of oxidized lipids
• Integrins in inflammation

Cardiovascular research at UC San Diego is interdisciplinary, including investigators from:

• Division of Cardiology
• Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Division of Pharmacology
• Division of Hematology and Oncology
• Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
• Department of Radiology
• Division of Pulmonary Medicine
• Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Division of Biological Sciences
• Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Local institutions with whom our investigators collaborate include:

• Salk Institute
• Scripps Research Institute
• Sanford Burnham Institute
• The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative
  Medicine
• San Diego State University