World-class Vision

• Bring together the world’s best scientific minds in an open environment that fosters and enhances innovative, creative inquiry.
• Encourage the intermingling of basic and clinical scientists from diverse specialties.
• Create research projects that look at heart and lung health issues not just from one or two sides, but from all viewpoints.
• Focus on outcomes that advance patient care, knowledge and our ability to create new knowledge.

The DHLRI was born from the multidisciplinary, problematic study of heart and lung disease at The Ohio State University in the late 1990s. In 2000, DHLRI opened its new home in one of the most advanced interdisciplinary facilities on the Ohio State campus. Today, the seven floor, 100,000 sq. ft. Institute offers research space for up to 50 principal investigators and their teams. Numerous Core Laboratories within the DHLRI offer state-of-the-art as well as innovative developing technologies to support all aspects of basic and clinical research. The clinical care provided nearby at the Ross Heart Hospital and other offices, clinics, and hospitals of the OSU Medical Center offers first-hand perspectives on how research affects the prevention, detection, and treatment of heart and lung disease.

Like the fiery brilliance that can ignite from the simplest of sparks, the success of the DHLRI’s vision can be measured in the light from its discoveries that are improving the practice of medicine and creating new approaches to fundamental problems of human health.