Ohio 3rd Frontier

The Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center (GCIC) is a cardiovascular product development consortium, led by the Cleveland Clinic, made possible through a $60 million grant from the State of Ohio's Third Frontier Program.  Founded in 2007, GCIC is the first Wright Mega-Center of Innovation under this program.  GCIC is focused on the formation, attraction, expansion and retention of cardiovascular companies to create jobs and facilitate economic development in the State of Ohio. 

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, together with its institutional partners, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati, and its commercial partners has received a grant from the state of Ohio to establish the Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center (AFIC), a Wright Center of Innovation. Launched in the summer of 2005, AFIC falls under Ohio's Third Frontier human genetics and biomedical engineering initiative, and is spearheading the charge to address the great suffering imposed by atrial fibrillation (AF), while catalyzing an emerging Ohio AF medical device industry. AFIC represents the largest single government grant in the world to support Atrial Fibrillation research.

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