Selection criteria

  • Candidate's CV: one to five points.
  • Project: one to 10 points.
  • Feasibility: one to five points.

EACVI Research Grant programme for 2026 - Evaluated programmes and scores

The EACVI received and reviewed 10 excellent eligible applications.

Rank Project Score /20
1 Integrating Exercise Echocardiography and Computational Modelling to
Understand Cardiac Filling Dynamics in Athletes and Heart Failure: A Multi-Modal
Approach
15.571
2 Long-term fate of the thoracic aorta and its impact on right ventricular performance and structure with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Fontan Physiology 15.429
3 Improving the assessment of coronary disease in TAVI patients: implications of photon counting CT and Perivascular Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) 15.000
4 Cardiac fluid dynamics in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: towards a better understand of cardiac mechanics and risk stratification 14.714
5 Shear Wave Elastography in Monitoring Myocardial Stiffness in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Treated with Mavacamten 14.500
6 Validation of Semiautomated Quantification of Mitral Valve Regurgitation post TEER by Three-Dimensional Colour Doppler Transoesophageal Echocardiography 14.286
7 Description of the epidemiological characteristics of Multiple and Mixed Valvular Disease patients: insight from the EACVI-MMVD study 13.833
8 Prevalence of coronary microvascular dysfunction assessed with quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance perfusion in women with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction and obesity 13.429
9 Late Gadolinium Enhancement Patterns and Comprehensive CMR Biomarkers for Risk Stratification in Multiple and Mixed Valvular Heart Disease: A Sub-Analysis of the EACVI-MMVD Study 12.571
10 Novel 3-dimensional echocardiographic quantification of mitral regurgitant volume 12.571