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RESEARCH
Our research goals are broad and ambitious, as are the needs and hopes of our patients. We aim to advance treatment now and health in the future, by pursuing both fundamental insights and their application to the practice of medicine. Investigators across the College of Medicine are doing cutting-edge research in clinical medicine, in basic biomedical science, and in the translation of basic findings into clinical practice and societal health. Focus areas include cancer, women's health, neurosciences, cardiac and vascular medicine, infectious disease, and obesity and diabetes.
Notable research highlights include:
- The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year $20 million grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The grant is the largest in UIC's history » more on this story
- The development of stem cell therapies for blood disorders, lung diseases, stroke, and heart repair funded by $2.8 million in grants from the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute.
- Research on the mechanisms of infertility funded by a grant of $6.8 million from the National Institutes of Health.
- Studies to optimize the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells to cure type I diabetes.
- The use of functional, physiologic, and metabolic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the patho- and neuro-physiological basis of brain injury and disease.
- The development of nanoscale neuromodulatory platforms to correct loss of vision resulting from retinal degenerative diseases such as macular degeneration funded by a grant of $6.3 million from the National Eye Institute.
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