Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center Web site launches

Want to keep track of developments at the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center in Cleveland?

The center recently launched a Web site that is independent of the Cleveland Clinic, leader of the public/private consortium that is developing the center with the help of a $60 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier program, among other support.

The $19 million project at East 101st Street and Cedar Road will host wet laboratories and offices, conference rooms and informal meeting areas, artwork and sophisticated teleconferencing and audio-visual technologies when it opens, likely in May.

Between 20 and 25 tenant companies are expected to develop, test or commercialize heart or vascular products at the center, which is across the street from the Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute and within a five-minute walk of the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Pavilion, the new heart hospital that houses the Clinic’s heart and vascular institute.

The center recently completed one of its labs, which it shows as a “mock up” at its Web site. No word yet on tenants of the incubator building, though the center already has made development grants to 22 companies and commercialization grants to 11 projects.