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Emory is recognized as one of the nation's leading research universities. We maintain collaborative partnerships with a host of neighboring organizations such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Recent Recognition

Name	Year	Achievement
American Association for Cancer Research	2013	A 20-member research team from Emory University, Johns Hopkins University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center receives the AACR Team Science Award for advancing knowledge of the fundamental genetic changes that characterize pancreatic cancer
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health	2013	Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and the Georgia Institute of Technology receive a $4 million grant to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures), the first exposome-based center grant awarded in the U.S.
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines	2013	Emory University is ranked sixth among the top U.S. and Canadian research universities for contributions to urgent global health research and access to treatment worldwide by the University Global Health Impact Report Card
BIO Ventures for Global Health	2012	Global Health Primer, funded through Gates Foundation grant, is awarded to the Emory Institute for Drug Development, recognizing recognizes Emory's expertise in drug development, its rich academic environment and its strong commitment to global health
Research funding awards	FY2012	$520.3 million, including $483.4 million for health sciences
The Scientist	2012	Top 15 work environment for life science postdoctoral research professionals among national academic institutions
New England Journal of Medicine	2011	Emory is named in a study as the nation's fourth largest contributor to the discovery of new drugs and vaccines by public-sector research institutions

Highlights

Name	Achievement
Cancer	Winship Cancer Institute is Georgia's only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center
Cardiology	Co-development of lifesaving procedures including angioplasty and drug-eluting stents, and newer technologies such as off-pump surgery
Centers	Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute, The Carter Center, Center for AIDS Research, Emory Vaccine Center, Winship Cancer Institute, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, among many others
Emory and Georgia Tech	Extensive collaboration between Atlanta's two Association of American Universities member schools includes the No. 2-ranked Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory/Georgia Tech Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center, Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute and Emory/Georgia Tech EPA Clean Air Research Center
HIV treatment	More than nine in 10 HIV patients in the United States who are on lifesaving therapy take Emtriva (emtricitabine) or 3TC (lamivudine), both drugs created at Emory
HIV vaccine	One of the leading vaccine candidates against HIV was developed at the Emory Vaccine Center and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Infectious diseases	One of eight NIH-sponsored Vaccine Evaluation and Treatment Units conducting clinical trials nationally; One of six NIH-funded Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance
Neuroscience	Development of brain mapping to guide deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's and dystonia, and discovery of the gene responsible for fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability
Partners	American Cancer Society, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Research Alliance, Task Force for Global Health, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among many others
Research excellence	Fourteen Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars, and about one in three of some 150 Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists, conduct their distinctive work at Emory.
Scientific research space	Two million square feet, the equivalent of about 46 acres or 35 football fields
Technology transfer	1,100+ active technologies, 1,000+ pending patent applications, 300+ active licenses, 250+ unique partners, 60+ start-ups

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