Our Mission

The mission of the Samueli Institute is to transform health care through the scientific exploration of healing.

Our Vision

Our vision is a world in which healing processes are the formative concept for achieving and maintaining wellness and ameliorating chronic disease.

Our Values

Service to the public: As a non-profit service organization, the Institute acts as a catalyst in creating discoveries, developing relationships, instigating research, and building rigorous scientific exploration that results in shared knowledge, improved patient care and healthful living.

Scientific exploration: The institute has inherent curiosity guided by systematic observation, investigation, and analysis, as well as the courage to ask challenging questions within a framework of systematic, high-quality and rational research methods and peer-review processes.

Integrity in all we do: The Institute acts with the highest esteem and respect for the public it serves by ensuring transparency, responsible fiduciary management and ethical practices from the board room to the bed-side.

View our strategic plan, Building the Science of Healing.