The NYU Division of Cardiology is home to vibrant, externally funded basic, translational, and clinical research programs. The Divisional research portfolio has increased to over $5,000,000 annually, with grants from agencies including the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, amongst others.

Over the past several decades, clinical research activities in the Division of Cardiology have contributed substantially to the cardiovascular literature and have influenced significantly the practice of cardiology. These activities include seminal studies from faculty in our echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and clinical electrophysiology laboratories, led by Drs. Kronzon, Feit and Chinitz.

More recently, the recruitment of Dr. Judith Hochman and other investigators has substantially expanded the Division’s clinical research agenda. An internationally recognized leader in cardiovascular research, Dr. Hochman is ranked among the top 5 percent of investigators who have received the most NIH funding in the past 25 years. Her work in the areas of cardiogenic shock and coronary artery disease has transformed the guidelines for treating patients with heart disease.

In 2003 the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center was established under the direction of Dr. Hochman. It serves as the clinical coordinating center for international and national multicenter trials and as the organizing entity for numerous local trials as well. The center has substantially increased patient enrollment in a wide range of clinical trials and has helped administer the division's expanding portfolio of clinical trials.

Much of the basic and translational cardiovascular investigation within the Medical Center is organized under the auspices of the NYU Program in Cardiovascular Biology, which is located in the new Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center.Two floors in this state-of-the-art research facility, totalling 24,000 sq. ft. of space, are devoted to cardiovascular investigation, including the research programs of Drs. Glenn I. Fishman, Edward A. Fisher, David E. Gutstein and Gregory E. Morley.

We encourage you to examine the varied research interests of investigators in the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology as well as some of their recent publications.