By 2003, identify targeted disciplines for new volunteers, establish a baseline and increase it by 25 percent. An expanded discussion of the first three objectives follows. Maintaining support for highly meritorious research projects. A grant allows an investigator to study or test a specific hypothesis or idea. The American Heart Association only funds research conducted at universities, colleges, medical and dental schools, schools of public health, hospitals, laboratories and other non-profit institutions.
Researchers working at private companies are ineligible for our funding.
Grants are only awarded to investigators whose projects have been formally reviewed and evaluated by impartial scientific experts. No awards are made to projects receiving overlapping funding from another source or that duplicate other projects. The Association's emphasis is on acquiring new knowledge. Increasing research in promising scientific areas. Another objective of the Association's research program is to identify needs and develop programs that stimulate research in exciting and promising scientific areas.