Associations

GLCC are proud to be associated and hold memberships with the following organisations:

VIGOUR

The VIGOUR vision is to enhance world cardiovascular health by creating, implementing, and evauating novel strategies developed through global collaboration, with a particular interest in:

  • Examining mechanistic insights into how new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies exert their effects
  • Examining processes of care and effects on patient outcomes
  • Evaluating international differences and practice patterns and their effects on outcomes
  • Advocating the development of new approaches to trial design and analysis in collaboration with sponsors and regulators
  • Emphasizing involvement of site investigators and coordinators in trial design and analysis and dissemination of results
  • Accumulating large databases from serial trials to address key temporal trends, overviews, and subsidiary questions of importance to patients, care providers, sponsors, and regulators.

Features

  • Academically-based partnership for sharing information, resources, and responsibility
  • Industry collaboration in designing scientifically important, clinical practice-friendly protocols
  • International cardiovascular thought leadership with proven regulatory insight
  • Clinician-driven project leadership
  • Unparalleled global network of investigators
  • Promotion of peer-reviewed publications
  • Commitment to improving the practice of cardiovascular medicine and patient outcomes
  • Education and training of physicians in clinical-research methods and operations