Mission

• To advance cardiovascular medicine by developing an internationally recognized center of excellence for research in cardiovascular science.
• To create a cutting-edge research environment that fosters innovation and a synergistic interchange across traditional departmental and disciplinary boundaries.
• To improve the health outcomes of individuals with cardiovascular disease by establishing links from molecule-to-man-to-community. The Institute strives to bridge the basic science disciplines of molecular biology, genetics and physiology with the disciplines of clinical investigation, epidemiology and community-based interventions.
• To play a leadership role in generating the knowledge and innovative approaches necessary to ameliorate the problem of ethnic disparities in the burden of cardiovascular disease.
• To serve as leaders, role models and mentors in nurturing the development of the next generation of leaders in biomedical research with a particular focus on enhancing the ethnic and gender diversity of the community of research scientists.