Research

RESEARCH AT EMORY UNIVERSITY

Emory is Georgia ’s life sciences leader, including the largest and most comprehensive health system in the state, coupled with renowned training programs in medicine and the biological sciences, nursing, public health, and a national primate research center. Research strengths include cardiology, cancer, infectious diseases, vaccines, genetics, public health, the neurosciences, imaging, biomedical engineering, transplantation, and drug discovery.

Emory University received more than $350 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2004—328 million in the health sciences alone. Federal funding was responsible for over 70% of the total awards to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center in fiscal 2004, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) making up over 60% of the WHSC total.

Emory University School of Medicine scientists and physician/scientists conduct basic science, clinical, and translational research within 7 basic science research departments and 19 clinical departments, as well as within numerous multidisciplinary Emory research centers and external research partnerships. Research facilities include the new 8-story Whitehead Biomedical Research Building , the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, the Woodruff Memorial Research Building , and the new Winship Cancer Institute building. Clinical research is conducted within hospital and clinic facilities of Emory Healthcare.