As a community-based medical school, one goal of CHM is to conduct collaborative, multidisciplinary and multi-community research that takes advantage of our unique distributed campus system. Our focus is on both clinical research that can be practically applied as well as the critical research in the basic science departments affiliated with CHM (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Pharmacology, and Physiology) on mechanisms underlying human diseases, and their integration.