Three generations of participants.
The dedication of our thousands of participants has made, and continues to make, our rigorous epidemiologic research possible.
In 1948, the Framingham Heart Study embarked on an ambitious project in health research to identify the common factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease by following its development over a long period of time in a large group of participants. >>
Philip Wolf, MD, Principal Investigator, and Dan Levy, MD, Director, with the staff of the Framingham Heart Study.
Extraordinary discoveries.
Extraordinary participants.
After 65 years, our participants continue to help scientists throughout the world unlock answers to many of medicine's most important and timely questions. See what they helped discover in 2012 and 2013.
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Testing Treatments in a Tube: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research (IPSC) is a recently developed method of changing ordinary white blood cells from individual blood samples so that they behave in the laboratory like cells from other organs.
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