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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, together with its institutional partners, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati, and its commercial partners has received a grant from the state of Ohio to establish the Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center (AFIC), a Wright Center of Innovation. Launched in the summer of 2005, AFIC falls under Ohio's Third Frontier human genetics and biomedical engineering initiative, and is spearheading the charge to address the great suffering imposed by atrial fibrillation (AF), while catalyzing an emerging Ohio AF medical device industry. AFIC represents the largest single government grant in the world to support Atrial Fibrillation research.

The AFIC's uniquely qualified team — the nation's largest and most innovative clinical programs, fundamental researchers and an unrivaled commercialization group — are jointly implementing an exceptionally collaborative five-prong research program to ensure that new AF therapies quickly come to market for the benefit of AF sufferers. State of the art cardiac mapping and experimental labs will be utilized by the group to:

  1. Develop new surgical treatment technologies.
  2. Improve catheter-enabled treatment techniques and instrumentation.
  3. Conduct basic science and translational studies into biochemical cellular and genetic causes for, and treatments of, AF.
  4. Develop next generation AF treatment strategies.
  5. Specify novel patient assessments to better document therapy outcomes and AF mechanisms.

Learn more in our AFIC Overview

AFIC Advantage

  

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AFIC Doctors Touching Lives
  • Access to AFIC-dedicated animal laboratories
  • Independent transactional accounting
  • Cross-institutional expertise
  • Unparalleled access to resources, equipment and personnel
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News & Developments A principal goal of Ohio's Third Frontier Project is to develop "clusters of excellence that sustain [Ohio's] global competitive advantage in company and product formation, job creation and economic growth." AFIC is dedicated to ensuring its current programs and new projects contribute to the state's economic development goals, making an impact in each of these important areas. Read more...

Mission Statement

  

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Mission Statement Through its successes in ground-breaking research and industrial partnerships, AFIC will come to be recognized as a world leader in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for Atrial Fibrillation. In the process, AFIC hopes to contribute to lo cal economic development in the Northeast Ohio region, by attracting AF companies to the region, by creating new AF companies around AFIC research results, and by expanding our research and development base. Read more...
 
AFIC Overview

With Atrial Fibrillation affecting more Ohioans each year, research, therapies and technologies are needed more than ever. Learn more about AFIC in this presentation created by Executive Director Alan Bentley. Read more...

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The Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center is an Ohio Wright Center of Innovation supported by a grant from the state of Ohio's Third Frontier Project.