Identifying needs and opportunities for advancing translational research in cardiovascular disease.

Experimental Cardiology, University of Leuven, KUL Campus Gasthuisberg O/N 7th floor, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; INSERM U689, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France; Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Experimental Cardiology Laboratory, Utrecht Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Medizinische Klinik II, Lübeck University, Lübeck, Germany; Clinical Pharmacology Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany; Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France; Boehringer Ingelheim, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Cardiac Imaging, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA; Center of Molecular Medicine, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy; Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Georg-AugustUniversity, Göttingen, Germany; Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain; Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; and DG Research, Directorate Health, EC, Brussels, Belgium