Funding

2024-2028: Development of High-Efficiency Push-Button Low-Field Cardiovascular MRI
PI: Matthias Stuber

2023-2027: Detailed Structural Imaging And Comprehensive Characterization Of The Arrhythmogenic Myocardial Substrate Using Super-Resolved Free-Running Multidimensional Cardiac Imaging (MERCATOR)
PI: Jérôme Yerly

2022-2023: Low-Field MRI – The Next Frontier
PI: Matthias Stuber
Co-PIs: Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Fabio Becce, Catherine Beigelman-Aubry, Patric Hagmann, Antoine Lutti, Patrick Omoumi, Jonas Richiardi, Tobias Rutz, Juerg Schwitter, Constantin Tuleasca, Ruud van Heeswijk, Jérôme Yerly
01.12.2022 – 30.11.2023

2022-2026: Comprehensive Volumetric CINE Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Fetal Heart.
PI: Christopher Roy

2021-2025: A Multidimensional Free-Running Framework for Comprehensive and Quantitative High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Heart and its Vessels
PI: Matthias Stuber

2021-2025: Characterizing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction – an integrative approach that combines quantitative MRI, metabolomics, and genomics with machine learning
Responsible PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Other PIs: Roger Hullin, Philippe Meyer, Jonas Richiardi

2019-2023: Advanced quantitative MRI biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease – towards in-vivo histology
PI: Antoine Lutti
Co-Investigator: Ruud van Heeswijk

2019-2023: Mapping of atherosclerosic plaque composition and inflammation aimed at a paradigm shift in stroke prevention
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk

2017-2021 : A Paradigm Shift in MRI of the Heart: 5D Imaging – Sample Now and Ask Questions Later
PI: Matthias Stuber

2016-2019Hyperpolarized metabolic imaging of the heart for the quantification of metabolic changes in cardiotoxicity
PI: Jessica Bastiaansen

2014-2017 : Molecular Imaging of Perfluorocarbons for the Quantitative Characterization of Atherosclerosis Progression
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk

2014-2015 : Development of Advanced Translational High-Field MRI
PI: Matthias Stuber
Co-Investigators: Roger Hullin, Patric Hagmann, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Olaf Blanke, Jürg Schwitter, Michel Burnier

2013-2015 : Non-invasive and Regional 3D Measures of Coronary Vasomotor Function, Delayed Hyperenhancement and Vessel Wall Plaque Characteristics in Early Atherosclerosis Using Advanced High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging
PI: Matthias Stuber

2013-2016 : Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with T2 relaxation time for Non-Invasive Detection of Acute Allograft Rejection in the Maintenance Phase after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
PI: Roger Hullin (Cardiology, CHUV)
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber

2012-2015 : 19F-Fluorine MRI as a novel imaging approach for detection and tracking of specific cell populations in-vivo
PI: Juerg Schwitter (Cardiology, CHUV)
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber

2010-2013 : Prognostic value of renal tissue oxygenation on renal disease progression in patients with hypertension and renal diseases
PI: Michel Burnier (Nephrology, CHUV)
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber



2022-2027: Black-blood magnetic resonance imaging and automated AI-based segmentation for highly detailed characterisation of myocardial scar
PI: Dr Aurélien Bustin

2019-2023: Bourse Pro-Femmes
Water-fat separated 3D MRI for highly specific identification and quantification of myocardial scar and fat infiltration
PI: Jessica Bastiaansen

2011-2013: Faculty of Biology and Medicine Interdisciplinary Grant
New Methods for Non-Invasive, Safe and Precise In Utero Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Fetal Heart for the Improved Planning of Congenital Cardiac Surgery
PI: Matthias Stuber

2022-2023: Automated extraction of sudden cardiac death biomarker by combining black-blood cardiac imaging and artificial intelligence
PI: Dr Aurélien Bustin




2021-2022: The Social Dimension of Creative thinking in schoolchildren
PI: Solange Denervaud



2022-2023: Shedding a new light on the arrhythmogenic myocardial substrate to improve care of patients with arrhythmia
PI: Aurélien Bustin
Co-investigators: Prof. Hubert Cochet, Prof. Matthias Stuber

2018-2020 High resolution cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (cMRF) for the detection and characterization of cardiomyopathy
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Co-Investigator: Andrew Coristine

2017 – 2018 Quantitative and Non-Invasive Whole-Heart Tissue Characterization for the Guidance of Cardiovascular Therapy
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Co-investigator: Jérôme Yerly

2013 – 2014 Fluorine Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Quantitative Characterization of Atherosclerosis Progression
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber

2016-2017 Non-invasive in vivo metabolic quantification of the cardioprotective effect of food supplements in chemotherapy-induced cardiac dysfunction
PI: Jessica Bastiaansen

2012-2013 Non-Invasive Quantitative Magnetic Resonance T2-mapping of the Heart for Improved Guidance of Coronary Revascularization Therapy after Myocardial Infarction
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber

2013-2017 From Superparamagnetic Nano-particles until Tools for Detection and Treatment of Cancer
PI: Heinrich Hofmann
Co-PI: Matthias Stuber

2013 – 2016 Fluorine Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Quantitative Characterization of Atherosclerosis Progression
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk

2006-2013 Non-Invasive Measures of Regional Coronary Endothelial Function by 3T MRI.
PI: Matthias Stuber

2009-2014 Altered Creatine Kinase Energy Metabolism in Human Heart Failure.
PI: Robert G Weiss (Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA)
Co-investigator: Matthias Stuber

2014-2016 Quantitative imaging of inflammatory lesions in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis with fluorine-19 MRI
PI: Ruud van Heeswijk
Co-PI: Christian Federau