As a cutting edge clinic with a strong academic vocation, Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino si deeply committed in expanding its scientific network, establishing fruitful research cooperations and developing common educational projects with hospitals, academic institutes and other independent institutions all over the world. Today, Cardiocentro Ticino is part of a growing network of leading research institutions active both at a national and international level. Since 2012, Cardiocentro Ticino is also an “associated institute” of the University of Zurich, one of the most important universities in Switzerland.

Academic Partner

• University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich
• Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Faculty of Informatics – Lugano
• University of applied sciences and Arts of southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Integrated Biomedical Systems Laboratory (ISEA / LSIB), Manno
• University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne
• Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne
• University of Bern, Bern
• University of Maastricht, Department of Physiology, Maastricht (NL)
• Università degli studi di Pavia, Pavia (I)
• Università “La Sapienza”, reparto cuore e grossi vasi Attilio Reale, Rome (I)
• Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese (I)
• Università de L’Aquila, Department of Cardiology, L’Aquila (I)
• Scuola Universitaria Superiore di Pisa Sant’Anna, Istituto di scienze della vita
• Victor Babes” National Institute of Pathology (INCDVB), Romania
• Università di Milano-Bicocca (I)
• Università di Torino (I)
• Technion Institute Haifa, (IL)
• Università di Genova, (I)

Partner Hospital and Institutes

• Zurich university hospital (USZ), Klinik für Kardiologie, Zurich
• Brigham and Women’s Harvard Medical Scool, Boston MA, (USA)
• Brompton Hospital, Division of Radiology, London (UK)
• Federal Institute of Technology, Computer Vision Laboratory, Zurich
• Mayo Clinic, Division of Cardiology, Rochester MI (USA)

Independent research institutions

• Foundation for Cardiological Research and Education (FCRE), Lugano
• Swiss Institute for Regenerative Medicine (SIRM), Taverne
• Fondazione Istituto Ricerche di Gruppo (IRG), Massagno

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