Basic Angioscience investigates the molecular mechanisms of vascular developmental biology as well as the molecular repertoire of organotypically differentiated cells of the vas­cular wall down to the single cell level. The main focus is on the vascular niche including the stem cell niche and its control modulators, so-called angiocrine factors which regulate their environment during physiological and pathological conditions. Thus, understanding their function in health and disease will feed the pipeline for Translational Angioscience.