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Cardiometabolic Studies

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The Cardio-Metabolic CRO 

hVIVO is a specialist in cardiometabolic clinical studies, offering a broad spectrum of pharmacodynamic assessments in the indication of obesity, insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction, diabetes, lipid disorders, hypertension, or Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). Supported by a broad network of medical specialists in endocrinology, diabetes, cardiology, hepatology, and nephrology. With over 30 years of scientific leadership from Professor Thomas Forst and access to respective patient populations, hVIVO delivers end-to-end trial support spanning PK/PD consultancy and full-service clinical operations

  • Specialists in cardiometabolic clinical research, with longstanding expertise across obesity, diabetes, metabolic disorders and its comorbidities.
  • Comprehensive phenotyping and diagnostic capabilities, including metabolic monitoring, body composition and energy expenditure assessments, vascular and endothelial function testing.
  • Specialised advanced imaging such as MRI PDFF, liver elastography or DEXA for internal organ tissue mapping.
  • In-house recruitment and referrals from hospital sites

Contact Our Cardiometabolic Team

If you are planning a Cardiometabolic trial talk to our team tody.

Scientific & Technical Capabilities

Metabolic Assessments

  • Oral Glucose Tolerance Testing
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring
  • Insulin Resistance Assessments
  • Standardised Meals
  • Food intake assessments

 

 

Fat Tissue Distribution /Energy Expenditure

  • FibroScan® (Liver Fat and Stiffness)
  • MRI PDFF (Liver Fat)
  • MRI Elastography (Liver Stiffness)
  • DEXA Scan (Body Composition)
  • Air Displacement Plethysmography (BodPod)
  • Energy expenditure (Indirect Calorimetry)

Vascular / Endothelial Function

  • Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Intima Media Thickness
  • Flow Mediated Dilatation
  • Holter ECG
  • Heart Ejection Fraction Measurement
  • Laser Doppler Microvascular Blood Flow Assessments
  • Pulse Wave Tonometry

Biomarker assessments

  • Adipokines
  • Cytokines

Indications

  • Obesity

  • Insulin resistance

  • Metabolic syndrome

  • Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver diseases (MASLD),

  • Diabetes mellitus (type 1 and type 2)

  • Lipid disorders

  • Hypertension

 

Special Population and Patient Experience

Special Populations

  • Elderly  

  • Pharmacogenetic Normal, Intermediate, Excessive Metabolisers  

  • Gender Trials (female, post-menopausal)   

  • Renal Impairment  

  • Hepatic Impairment  

Patient Populations

  • Diabetic 

  • Obese 

  • Women’s Health (PCO, Endometriosis)  

  • Dermatology (Atopic dermatitis, Psoriasis) 

  • Hypertension  

  • Hypercholesterolemia 

Meet the Cardiometabolic team

hVIVO is led by a dynamic group of experts in their respective fields who are driving excellence throughout the organisation.

Thomas Forst
Thomas Forst

Chief Medical Officer

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Edis Gasanin

Medic

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Marina Streckebein

Medical Director, Mannheim

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End-to-End Drug Development Support

The hVIVO group provides end-to-end drug development support and has standalone and full-service offerings spanning regulatory strategy and submission support, CMC and PK/PD consultancy, project management, data management, and biostatistics services. With an established database of over 400,000 participants, including participants with cardiovascular and metabolic disease, hVIVO can ensure your studies run seamlessly from start to finish.

hVIVO provides a panel of metabolic, endocrinological and vascular testing for the assessments pharmacodynamic effects in cardiometabolic clinical trials.

Yes, including continuous glucose monitoring, meal tests, insulin resistance and beta cell function testing, and energy expenditure assessments.

FibroScan®, MRI‑PDFF, and DEXA are available for liver and body composition imaging.

Obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver diseases (MASLD), diabetes mellitus (type 1 and type 2), lipid disorders, hypertension.

Yes, including early‑phase studies, PK/PD consultancy, and full clinical operations.

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