Our vision

As America's research hospital, we will lead the global effort in training today's investigators and discovering tomorrow's cures.

Our mission

To provide a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by:

• investigating the pathogenesis of disease;
• conducting first-in-human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact;
• developing state-of-the-art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions;
• training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and,
• ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.