Cordis, Latin for "of the heart", may refer to:
Cordis Corporation develops and manufacturers diagnostic and interventional products to treat patients who suffer from coronary and peripheral vascular diseases. It was founded in 1959 in Miami, Florida. Cordis Corporation is a company of Cardinal Health. The Cordis global headquarters and a Europe, Middle East and Africa hub are located in Zug, Switzerland. North American operations are based out of the San Francisco Bay area. The Asia-Pacific hub is located in Singapore, and the Latin American hub is located in Puerto Rico.
The Medical Development Corporation was founded in 1957 in Miami, Florida, by Dr. William P. Murphy Jr. and focused on interventional vascular medicine and neuroscience. In 1959 the company’s name changed to Cordis. Cordis joined the Johnson & Johnson interventional business called “Johnson & Johnson Intervention Systems (JJIS)” and forms Cordis Corporation in 1996. In 1997 Cordis Corporation expanded into the rapidly growing field of electrophysiology through the acquisition of Biosense Inc. One year later, in 1998, Biosense Inc. merged with Webster Laboratories to form Biosense Webster, Inc.
CORDIS is the Community Research and Development Information Service, available at http://cordis.europa.eu
It is the European Commission's primary public repository and portal to disseminate information on all EU-funded research projects and their results in the broadest sense.
The website and repository include all public information held by the Commission (project factsheets, publishable reports and deliverables), editorial content to support communication and exploitation (news, events, success stories, magazines, multilingual "results in brief" for the broader public) and comprehensive links to external sources such as open access publications and websites.
Advisory services on conducting research using CORDIS is available at European Documentation Centres across the European Union.
CORDIS offers access to a broad range of information and services on EU research, including: