TICARDIO - an international, interdisciplinary joint doctoral degree program, as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks within Horizon 2020 - will train the next generation of biomedical researchers in excellent laboratories of major multidisciplinary research hubs at the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Medical Center Mainz (Germany), the School for Cardiovascular Diseases (CARIM) of Maastricht University (Netherlands), the Center for Cardiovascular and Nutrition Research (C2VN) at Aix-Marseille Université in Marseille