GVM Care & Research also carries out scientific research as institutional, integrated and cooperative activity within the context of the Group’s hospital and outpatient clinic network.
 
The research involves all the subject areas operating at GVM and is mainly developed in the Cardiovascular areas, to which this report mainly refers.

Research at Maria Cecilia Hospital takes place synergistically with clinical excellence, particularly in the field of cardiovascular disease.

The fundamental mission is to promote clinical innovation by creating an environment that fosters interdisciplinary and translational research.

We believe that research is inseparable from the evaluation of:

• genetic, biological and metabolic determinants;
• lifestyles;
• specific risk factors.

Basic and translational clinical research aims to improve patients' quality of life by developing state-of-the-art preventive, clinical and therapeutic pathways.

Collaboration is an identifying element within a coordinated strategy and a comprehensive approach to disease.

Research is coordinated by the Scientific Directorate and carried out in the Translational Research Laboratory and the Clinical Research Area, supported by the Clinical Trials Unit.