Research
The UNC School of Medicine supports a rich array of outstanding basic, clinical and population research programs, centers and resources across the translation spectrum.
The infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration support highly innovative research that fulfills the school’s goal to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others whom we serve.
The UNC School of Medicine is a top caliber research intensive school with more than $600M in research funding, consistent rankings among top public medical schools for NIH funding, two Nobel Prize winners, more than 20 members of the National Academies, 90+ core facilities and more.
As part of this pillar, we will accelerate discovery and innovation to improve health.
Research Objectives
- Develop, invest in, and retain a research workforce that enables the SOM to develop innovations that advance basic science and translational research and improve patient care.
- Optimize the post-doc experience and enhance opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill and in industry to make UNC-Chapel Hill the premiere destination.
- Expand undergraduates’ access to basic science and clinical research opportunities to train future researchers.
- Expand research infrastructure and accelerate strategic investment to enable the SOM to develop innovative breakthroughs.
- Modernize and dramatically expand research space through investment in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Translational Research Building and EPA building to enable research growth.
- Invest in advanced technology and ensure broad access across the SOM to accelerate research efforts.
- Establish cloud data and analytics infrastructure to unlock the power of UNC Health and School of Medicine data.
- Enhance research administrative support and research funding to enable the SOM to advance scientific discoveries.
- Better leverage our research expertise and capitalize on key synergies to secure multi-center and other substantial funding awards.
- Recognize and invest in research with significant potential to shape our state, nation and world.
- Implement a strategic approach to increase SOM partnerships with other schools and main campus and leverage industry engagement to accelerate UNC SOM’s ability to achieve its research goals.
- Strategically identify partners and optimize key processes to reduce barriers to collaboration.
How We Will Measure Our Success
- Total research funding
- Number of disclosures/report of inventions
- Pilot funds provided to support innovation projects in collaboration with OTC
- Field citation ratio
Thank Yous
Thank you to the following teammates who helped develop our research pillar:
- Blossom Damania
- Cam Enarson
- Lamorris Loftin
- Brian Strahl
- Donita Robinson
- Emily Pfaff
- Chris Gregory
- Shelley Earp
- Jonathan Berg
- Melissa Haendel
- Jill Jemison
- Henrik Dohlman
- Pablo Ariel
- Dirk Dittmer
- John Buse
- Mike Cohen
- Gwen Garden
- Dallas Carter
- Jean Cook
- Rich Loeser
- Jonathan Juliano
- Jeremy Purvis
- Vicki Bae-Jump
- Nick Shaheen
- Shawn Gomez
- Laura Viera
- Erin Casey
- Andy Kant
- Jen Jen Yeh
- Dell Yarbrough
- Evan Dellon
- Jeff Stringer
- Tom Kash
- Linda Raferty
- JP Flores
- Chad Pecot
- Natasha Snider
- Joan Taylor