Welcome to the website of the Cardiovascular Biology Training Program at Washington University Medical School in Saint Louis, Missouri. This training program was established more than ten years ago and is supported by an institutional Training Grant (T32 HL007275) from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. The goals of this Training Program are to provide outstanding research opportunities, well-rounded, multidisciplinary training in Modern Cardiovascular Biology, and mentoring to Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Trainees to prepare these individuals to be productive, independent cardiovascular research scientists. There are presently 20 faculty participants in this Training Program, and eight (8) postdoctoral and four (4) predoctoral trainees supported by the NHLBI T32 award.

The training faculty derive from seven departments, and include nationally and internationally recognized leaders in several areas of Modern Cardiovascular Biology including molecular biology, physiology, cell biology, biochemistry, pathology, genetics, and human cardiac disease mechanisms. All of the training faculty are well-established, well-funded, experienced and highly productive investigators, and all are committed to providing the training, experience, resources, intellectual enthusiasm and mentoring needed to facilitate the professional development of our trainees. The critical components and the clear strengths of this training program are these 20 participating training faculty and the trainees themselves. Another important strength of this program and, indeed, of the overall environment at Washington University, is the highly collaborative nature of our research efforts. This highly interactive environment, together with collaborative research projects between laboratories, expand the research, training and mentoring opportunities provided to our trainees. These strengths are manifest in the quantity and quality of the scientific output of the participants, in the quality of our present and past trainees, and in the achievements of our past trainees. In addition to research training, this Program provides instruction in "Ethics in Biomedical Research" and provides trainees the opportunity to participate in (two) weekly Cardiovascular Biology Seminar Series, one of which is run by Trainees.

At this website, you will find additional information about the Program, about the ongoing research efforts in the laboratories of all of the participating faculty, and about present and past predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees affiliated with this Program and supported by the NHLBI T32 award. If you are interested in learning more about the Program and/or about research and training opportunities in Cardiovascular Biology at Washington University, please contact us. We shall be happy to provide you with additional information.