Once you have heart disease, you have it for life. But a vast consortium of scientific thinking is on your side. The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is dedicated to identifying, developing and promoting the latest advancements in the treatment of heart disease. Breakthroughs which are resulting in more people surviving, leading active lives, and moving beyond the fear.

Our Mission

To help doctors improve survival and quality of life for people suffering from heart and vascular disease.

Our Model to Defy Heart Disease 

We work to identify, develop and promote the latest advancements in the treatment of heart and vascular disease. By covering all aspects of the research continuum, we’re able to accelerate the speed with which breakthrough therapies reach patients through doctors, improving survival rates and quality of life, faster.

Our Areas of Expertise

CRF carries out its mission by pursuing three basic goals:

Innovate

The CRF Skirball Center for Innovation guides early ideas and innovations through comprehensive preclinical research programs to introduce practical clinical therapies to patients.

Investigate

The CRF Clinical Trials Center plans and executes clinical investigations from first-in-man studies to large, multicenter, international trials and provides expert, independent qualitative and quantitative analyses of clinical and imaging data.

Educate

The CRF Center for Education trains practitioners in advanced techniques and innovations at more than 50 educational meetings and conferences each year, including the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.

Our History

CRF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.