Center for Health & Disease Research

The Center for Health and Disease Research (CHDR) seeks to promote biomedical and health-related research advances to support and enhance the development of a sustainable industrial economic sector. The CHDR performs basic and applied research in several key areas of chronic and acute health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, eye disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammation and Alzheimer's disease and functions as a cohesive, interdisciplinary facility, which serves to unify scientists with common interests.