Vision
Excellent science reveals the secrets of the failing heart
Aim
- Find novel targets for the treatment of heart failure patients.
- Develop and employ cutting edge technologies to understand the mechanisms of heart failure.
- Recruit and educate PhD and medical students to become tomorrow’s scientific experts
Strategy
- Recruit scientists and researchers: Recruit and retain talented, competent people and foster their development
- Equipment and technology: Maintain instruments, laboratories and competence to serve scientists in the hospital and the health region with comparative medicine resources
- Scientific and educational training resource: Offer modern surgery and intervention facilities for clinical training
- Produce new scientists: Provide excellent academic and research training for PhD, medical and masters level students. We aim to promote honest and ethical behavior within science and professional relations
- Secure funding: Seek competitive grants to sustain world-class research
- National and international collaboration: Strengthen national and international collaboration with leading researchers to access required technology and competence
- Scientific publications: Publish research findings in high-impact journals, and present results at national and international meetings
- Novel therapies: Improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease by unraveling disease mechanisms
- Commercialization: Identify important findings and protect intellectual property by patenting innovations
- Communication: Communicate important research findings to the general public through lectures and popular science publications