Finding and understanding the vulnerable plaque and patient to prevent cardiovascular events

Purpose and aims
To develop strategies to reveal the vulnerable plaque and patient to prevent events.
Specific aims
To improve and validate coronary imaging methods to detect vulnerable plaques.
To develop methods to treat vulnerable plaques
To evaluate proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics to understand mechanisms of coronary disease and to find vulnerable patients.
To use machine learning to identify the vulnerable patient.
To improve coronary flow to prevent cardiovascular events.