Research is the key ingredient behind humanity's scientific and intellectual progress -- and the University of Miami stands among the world's greatest private research powerhouses.
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Generating New Knowledge and Innovations Every day at the University of Miami—in laboratories, clinics, and classrooms across our campuses—faculty and students rigorously pursue new knowledge. The University’s energetic and comprehensive research enterprise, which embraces a vast range of disciplines, generates applied innovations and breakthroughs in numerous disciplines while contributing to humanity’s intellectual capital. In 2006-07 research and sponsored program expenditures exceeded $274 million. The largest percentage of this research takes place at the Miller School of Medicine, with more than 1,300 ongoing projects funded by more than $180 million in external grants and contracts to UM faculty. The school ranks in the top third among U.S. medical schools in terms of research funding awarded. Several new research facilities have opened, are currently under construction, or in the planning phase. The Miller School of Medicine's 15-story Clinical Research Building, which opened in late 2006, accommodates researchers from a wide range of disciplines who are now located throughout the medical campus. Construction is continuing on the 188,000-square-foot Biomedical Research Institute, scheduled to open in 2008, which will significantly increase the Miller School’s wet lab, basic science space, housing hundreds of scientists who will collaborate with physicians on disease-based research. To expand the pioneering research across the University and especially at the Miller School, the planned state-of-the-art,1.4 million-square-foot Life Science Park will be developed as a hub of research innovation that embraces scientific collaboration between academia and industry and promotes economic development. The faculty and work highlighted here are emblematic of the exciting research taking place among and between academic disciplines throughout the University.
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September 19, 2007: UM Miller School of Medicine Launches First Translational Research Boot Camp August 29, 2007: UM Study Raises Questions About Alzheimer’s Theory |
