The American Heart Association Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Council (www.my.americanheart.org/

Over the past several years, the development of new tech-nologies and techniques has continuously accelerated the pace of discovery and translation in cardiovascular genet-ics research and the year 2014 turned out to be no exception. Many of the great scientific advances done in the year 2014 were characterized by being multidisciplinary collabora-tive efforts using an array skillsets and knowledge aiming to increase our understanding of molecular, cellular, and genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease, drug responses, and patient outcomes