Integrated Innovation Institutes

Advancing Patient Care, Education & Research

At MUSC, our Integrated Innovation Institutes are designed to foster synergy, collaboration, and integration across the tripartite mission of patient care, education, and research. These institutes enhance existing structures by amplifying efforts to drive excellence.

Meet Our Integrated Innovation Institutes

Hollings Cancer Center

As one of only 72 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the nation and the most extensive academic-based cancer research program in South Carolina, the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center serves its patients through innovative research, exceptional education and training, multidisciplinary patient care, statewide cancer prevention programs and progressive policy transformation. With over 140 specialists and over 200 clinical trials, patients at MUSC can expect evidence-based and cutting-edge treatment options and care.

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Neuroscience Brain Health Institute (NBHI)

As a long-established and collaborative health and research organization, the Medical University of South Carolina is proud of the hub of excellence in education, research and care of patients with neurological conditions that comprises MUSC Neuroscience & Brain Health Institute (NBHI). Consisting of experts across 12 different neuroscience programs and home to the 120-bed MUSC Health Neuroscience & Brain Hospital in Charleston, the institute gives scientists and physicians the opportunity to work alongside each other to better care for the South Carolina community. With neuroscience research dating back to 1881 and the opening of a dedicated neuroscience intensive care unit in 1972, MUSC has shown commitment to the field of neuroscience from the beginning. Its program only continues to grow as the field develops.

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Heart & Vascular Institute

The MUSC Health Heart & Vascular Institute is dedicated to delivering world-class cardiovascular care to patients across the state and beyond its borders. With expertise in caring for complex cardiac patients and a formalized multidisciplinary process that ensures every person who comes through the door receives state-of-the-art, holistic care. Health care team members at the Heart & Vascular Institute are committed to improving the lives of patients using a comprehensive spectrum of cardiovascular procedures and ground-breaking clinical trials.

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