The major health burden in a progressively obese and ageing population is
cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease research requires tight
cooperation between medical doctors, biomedical researchers, biochemists,
biologists, bio-informaticians and genetics and imaging experts. Their input is
crucial to integrate the available data and translate it to clinical knowledge
and vice versa. To achieve this ambition, the AMC CardioVascular community has
delineated a set of common themes as ‘areas of excellence’:
(1) genetics and systems biology of CardioVascular disease
(2) interaction of Lipids and Immunology in CardioVascular disease progression
and organ damage
(3) multiplication of research impact by integrating technological and clinical
resources.