Identifying Biomarkers to Improve Patient Prognosis

In 2020, we awarded two projects (a UCSF-University of Florida collaboration, and a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Vanderbilt collaboration) to identify biological factors (biomarkers) that predict success or failure of vascular repair procedures in patients with peripheral artery disease and abdominal aortic aneurysms. This work may lead to validated tests that predict inflammatory response to vascular healing.