Severance Institute for Vascular and Metabolic Research

  • Date of Establishment : June 17, 2010
  • Director : Chul Woo Ahn, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Number of Researchers : 11
  • Main Research Areas
    • Clinical Epidemiology
      Examination of difference in risk factors and association between diseases by investigating the prevalence of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes in patients with vascular and metabolic diseases
      Examination of association between tests sensitive to diseases of each organ in patients with vascular and metabolic diseases : Association between trans-cranial doppler and microalbuminuria test in patients with cerebrovascular diseases and renal failure
    • Pathophysiology
      Mechanism of cell therapy using mesenchymal stem cells : Examination of mechanism of loss of peritubular capillaries in acute ischemic kidney injury models
      Cell therapy for diabetes : Cell therapy as treatment of diabetes, a representative metabolic disease
    • Evaluation and treatment
      Retrospective study on clinical characteristics, treatment outcome and prognosis of patients with peripheral vascular disease
      Retrospective, comparative study according to interventional treatment of peripheral vascular disease
      Effect on peripheral vascular disease course and outcome in patients with and without diabetes
      Search of biochemical markers to predict peripheral vascular disease
      Comparative study on interventional treatment according to the area affected by peripheral vascular diseases
      Association between peripheral vascular disease and procoagulant microparticle