This institutional training grant special emphasis panel reviews institutional research training programs focused on providing advanced training in heart, lung, blood, and sleep-related basic science, translational, and clinical research in the following areas: 
Heart and Cardiovascular Biology and Disease

  • Cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, electrophysiology
  • Atherosclerosis and vascular diseases
  • Ischemic heart disease
  • Cardiometabolic and cardiorenal diseases
  • Cerebrovascular diseases
  • Cardiovascular development, congenital diseases
  • Cardiovascular pathophysiology
  • Cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, aortic aneurysms
  • Pediatric cardiovascular diseases and medicine
  • Cardiovascular lymphatic biology and disorders
  • Integrative physiology, pharmacology
  • Cardio-oncology

Lung Biology and Respiratory Diseases

  • Lung biology
  • Pulmonary diseases, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, and asthma
  • Cardiopulmonary diseases, pulmonary vascular diseases
  • Pulmonary development
  • Pediatric pulmonary diseases
  • Critical care medicine

Blood Disease and Hematology

  • Blood-related diseases, including anemias, bone marrow failure, cytopenias, blood coagulation, and immunology
  • Hemostasis and thrombosis
  • Transfusion medicine
  • Genetic and cellular therapies, immunology

Sleep

  • Sleep medicine and circadian biology
  • Behavioral health science

Epidemiology

  • Cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention, chronic diseases
  • Behavioral medicine
  • Public health, population health, and data science
  • Data analysis and methodology

Cardiovascular-related Bioengineering, Imaging, and Computational Biology

  • Cardiovascular-related bioengineering
  • Technology development and innovation
  • Diagnostics and therapeutics
  • Cardiovascular imaging and imaging technologies
  • Bioinformatics and biostatistics
  • Multi-omics technologies, quantitative genomics
  • Computational biology, digital health, and modeling

 

Review Dates

A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting.

Topics


  • Cardiovascular science, pathophysiology, and disease
  • Respiratory and pulmonary biology, disease, and critical care medicine
  • Hematology and transfusion medicine
  • Sleep and circadian science
  • Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
  • Cardiovascular and biomedical imaging
  • Genetic and cellular therapies
  • Cardiovascular, respiratory, and hematological genetics and epidemiology
  • Bioengineering, technology, and innovation
  • Integrative physiology 

 

Last updated: 06/01/2026 11:09