ICMR Invites EOI for Collaborative Projects on Cardiovascular Health and Diseases

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Long-term cardiac complications have been learnt to be associated with post COVID-19 pandemic with worse outcomes in many cases.  

This also envisages the need for better biological models of the myocardium for understanding cardiac functions and to study CV consequences of viral infections, individuals for CVD for early-risk assessment reduce the disease burden, the document said.  

Against this backdrop, the Department of Biotechnology invited EoI from the private and public academic institutions.

The Expressions of Interest (EOIs) has been invited for developing multi-centric collaborative projects involving basic scientists and clinicians in specific areas such as cardiovascular consequences of viral infection, including post COVID impact and Models for understanding cardiac function and drug discovery.

The projects can also be developed for Cardio-metabolic Health-Unmet Need and prevention strategies which can include identifying the highest risk populations (in the paediatric, adolescent and adult populations among others ) for CVD and heart failure and earlier identification of patients at risk novel biomarker identification or predictive algorithms to assess changes in risk.

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