Project SMIS 2014+: 107124 “Development of public research infrastructure, development, and creation of new infrastructures” funded under the Sectoral Operational Programme for Increasing Economic Competitiveness 2007-2013 and the Operational Programme Competitiveness 2014-2020, implemented by the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences.
The Romanian Government supports the intensification of medical research activities in the field of lethal or debilitating conditions, which are presented in national and international statistics as the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Romania: cardiovascular diseases and tumors, central themes of the project “Development of public research infrastructure, development, and creation of new infrastructures.”
Under these conditions, following discussions between representatives of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of National Education, through the National Authority for Scientific Research, the objective necessity of a project addressing the integrated creation of a modern infrastructure of angiography equipment emerged, aiming to contribute to the diagnosis and treatment improvement in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular diseases, pediatric cardiology malformations, aneurysms, peripheral vessels, and tumors.
Global research in the detection and diagnostic identification of cardiovascular diseases currently benefits from evaluated technologies, such as the angiography structure created within this project, a premise for boosting medical research activity in Romania, with direct effects on improving the quality of life of the population.
In the first phase of the project (2015), 17 hospital units where the research centers of the Academy of Medical Sciences are located were equipped with angiography equipment, distributed evenly across the 8 development regions.
The key element in achieving the proposed scientific objectives is the existence of efficient angiography equipment, aiming to establish angiographic diagnosis completed in most cases and the therapeutic component.
In the second phase (2017-2021), the project aims to increase the research and development capacity of 17 medical units (research centers) in Romania in the field of angiography by using the angiography systems acquired in phase 1 of the project and conducting clinical research on 100 patients on average per research center within the emerging AngioNET cluster, with the role of boosting medical research activity in Romania, with direct effects on improving the quality of life of the population.
Through this research, a national treatment strategy for conditions is resulting, applicable territorially uniformly, in specialized established centers or offers development in newer centers with growing experience. Thus, the exaggerated application without scientific basis in the evidence-based medicine era of costly procedures is avoided.