Borlaug, Barry A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-0596
Testani, Jeffrey M.
Petrie, Mark C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6333-9496
Wang, Zhenzhong
Cunningham, Jonathan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4481-7867
Adams, Kirkwood F. Jr
Amir, Offer
Bělohlávek, Jan
Bocchi, Edimar
Freitas, Aguinaldo Jr https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3778-7153
Hominal, Miguel
Kadokami, Toshiaki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9017-700X
Merkely, Bela
Miller, Christopher A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-7088
Nuñez, Julio https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-7119
Verma, Subodh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-8533
Yilmaz, Mehmet Birhan
Oru, Ena
Sam, Flora https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-9362
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL128526, HL162828, HL160226)
United States Department of Defense | United States Army | Army Medical Command | Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (W81XWH2210245)
Article History
Received: 9 July 2025
Accepted: 5 August 2025
First Online: 31 August 2025
Competing interests
: B.A.B. receives research support from the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense; receives research grant funding from AstraZeneca, Axon, Corvia, Novo Nordisk and Tenax Therapeutics; has served as a consultant for Actelion, Amgen, Aria, Axon Therapies, BD Biosciences, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cytokinetics, Edwards Lifesciences, Eli Lilly and Company, Imbria, Janssen, Merck, Novo Nordisk, NGM, NXT and VADovations; and is a named inventor (US patent no. 10,307,179) for the tools and approach for a minimally invasive pericardial modification procedure to treat heart failure. J.M.T. receives research support from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Reprieve Inc., Sequana Medical, Abbott and Merck and has consulted for Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cardionomic, MagentaMed, Reprieve Inc., FIRE1, Sequana Medical, Merck, Windtree Therapeutics, Precardia, Regeneron, BD Biosciences, Edwards Lifesciences, AstraZeneca, Corteria and Eli Lilly. M.C.P. receives grant funding from Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, SQ Innovations, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Medtronic, Boston Scientific and Pharmacosmos and has consulted and/or served on trial committees for Abbott, AbbVie, Akero, Applied Therapeutics, Alnylam, Amgen, AnaCardio, Biosensors, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Edwards Lifesciences, Corteria, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Bayer, Horizon Therapeutics, GlaxoSmithKline, Moderna, Takeda, Cardiorentis, Pharmacosmos, Siemens, St. Jude, Eli Lilly and Company, Vifor, New Amsterdam, Medtronic, Moderna, Teikoku, LIB Therapeutics, 3R Lifesciences, Reprieve Inc., FIRE1, Corvia and Regeneron. He also serves as Director of Global Clinical Trials Partners. Z.W., E.O. and F.S. are employees of Eli Lilly and Company and hold Eli Lilly and Company stocks. F.S. is a named inventor of the patents filed by Eli Lilly and Company. J.C. has consulted for Edgewise Therapeutics, Occlutech, Roche Diagnostics and us2ai. K.F.A. has received research grants from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cardurion Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Company, LivaNova, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Otsuka, Pfizer and Roche Diagnostics and consulted for Amgen, AstraZeneca, Cytokinetics, Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis, Relypsa, Roche Diagnostics and Windtree Therapeutics. O.A. and his institution have served as national principal investigator and in advisory board meetings for Eli Lilly and Company. J.B. has received lecture honoraria from Abiomed, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Getinge, Novartis and Resuscitec. E.B. has received consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Servier; subsidized travel/hotel/registration fees from Servier; membership in steering committees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis and Servier; research grant support through the Heart Institute (Incor) from AstraZeneca, Bayer/Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cardiol Therapeutics, Eurofarma, Janssen, Novartis and Pfizer; and honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Servier and Viatris. A.F., M.H. and T.K. declare no funding or disclosures. B.M. reports lecture fees from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Biotronik, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic and Novartis and an institutional research grant from Novartis. C.M. has participated on advisory boards and/or consulted for AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly Alliance, Novartis and PureTech Health; serves as an advisor for HAYA Therapeutics; has received speaker fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Novo Nordisk; receives conference attendance support from AstraZeneca; and receives research support from Amicus Therapeutics, AstraZeneca, Guerbet Laboratories Limited, Roche and Univar Solutions B.V. J.N. reports research support from CIBER-Cardiovascular and reports honoraria for presentations or advisory boards from Alleviant, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Rovi and Vifor CSL (outside the submitted work). S.V. holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and reports receiving grants and/or research support and/or speaking honoraria from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, the Canadian Heart Research Centre, the Canadian Medical and Surgical Knowledge Translation Research Group, Eli Lilly and Company, HLS Therapeutics, Humber River Health, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, PhaseBio, S & L Solutions Event Management Inc., Sanofi and Sun Pharma. He is the President of the Canadian Medical and Surgical Knowledge Translation Research Group, a federally incorporated not-for-profit physician organization. M.B.Y. has received institutional research fees from Albert Health, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen, Novartis and Novo Nordisk and travel support from Menarini.