Goal 1
Reduce the burden of disease and improve wellness through transformative basic, translational, clinical and population research.
Objectives
- Create personalized treatments and interventions through a better understanding of biology, behaviors and environment.
- Reduce the burden of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality by achieving breakthroughs in cancer, neuroscience/addiction and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.
- Advance health care from bench to bedside to community and back by improving the efficiency and efficacy of translational research through informed partnerships between researchers and clinicians.
- Advance new treatments and interventions by facilitating and increasing access to clinical trials, with a particular focus on trials that may assist diverse populations.
Goal 2
Improve health outcomes by leveraging emerging technologies, data science, machine learning and mathematical modeling.
Objectives
- Discover relationships and patterns that benefit health by coordinating efforts in data sciences and artificial intelligence.
- Accelerate scientific progress by engaging stakeholders including community partners, ethicists, data managers and members of the data science consortium.
Goal 3
Generate new medications, biologic treatments, interventions, devices and vaccines by actualizing discoveries made at VCU.
Objectives
- Develop, formulate and deliver novel drugs, vaccines and biologic treatments by enhancing our expertise in structural biology, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacology and pharmaceutical engineering to decrease morbidity and mortality.
- Address unmet clinical needs and health challenges by developing innovative biological technologies and medical devices, combining clinical insights with advanced engineering, physical sciences and biological sciences.
- Ensure community engagement with and support of VCU health research and align VCU research with the most pressing community needs by fostering collaborations and sharing best practices with the community.