Cleveland Clinic Receives $750k Grant to Establish Preventive Cardiology Chair

The Cleveland Foundation has given the Cleveland Clinic a $750,000 grant to create the Leonard Krieger Chair in Preventive Cardiology, according to a news release.

Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD, head of the Section for Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, will hold the chair. He said the grant will support the hospital's research, and he will focus on developing an inhibitor of a recently discovered gut flora pathway as a new therapy for atherosclerosis.

Dr. Hazen is also director of the Cleveland Clinic Mass Spectrometry Core Facilities and the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine as well as the vice-chair of Translational Research for the Lerner Research Institute.

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