Stephen Granite, Director of Database/Software Development for the CCBM, recently presented at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007. The title of his talk was “The Cardiovascular Research Grid: A National Infrastructure for Representing, Sharing, Analyzing and Modeling Cardiovascular Data.” The Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG) will develop tools for representing, managing and sharing multi-scale data related to Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), and will then use that multi-scale data to discover biomarkers that predict need for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) placement. The CVRG is establishing working groups to create a mechanism for community input on the CVRG itself and undertaking outreach efforts to inform, train and support researchers in its use.