SCAI Early Career Research Grants

Research relevant to one or more of the following areas related to personalizing or tailoring the vascular patient care journey:

• Intravascular imaging with OCT as a tool to guide & optimize endovascular or percutaneous coronary intervention in specific patient/lesion subsets
• Epicardial or microvascular coronary physiology assessments, for example, in management of patients with INOCA or diffuse coronary disease
• Strategies designed to personalize the disease journey for patients suffering with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia (CLTI)

Research relevant to one or more of the following areas related to coronary or peripheral calcium modification:

• Investigation of diagnostic imaging or screening protocols to identify vessel calcification prior to angiogram
• OCT/IVUS analysis quantifying prevalence of concentric, eccentric, and nodular calcium morphologies

Or one or more of the following areas related to Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI)

• Disparities in treatment (e.g., by gender, race, ethnicity, age)
• Recent treatment and outcome trends per national or international vascular registry data, administrative data, clinical trial data or institutional databases

Or focusing on one of the following areas:

• Clinical and/or economic assessment of the adoption of radial and/or pedal peripheral vascular interventions—preferably in the OBL setting
• Potential shift in peripheral artery disease (PAD) practice patterns in COVID-19 era (e.g., changing PAD demographics, specialties treating PAD, prevalence, and incidence, shifts in medical management, and time to intervention)
• Economic cost of a multidisciplinary approach involving endovascular procedures and wound care vs. primary amputation in patients with critical limb ischemia
• Quality-of-life after endovascular intervention in claudicants