Health Sciences
Emory health scientists won $387.5 million in research funding awards from public and private sources during fiscal year 2008. Of that, $251 million came from the National Institutes of Health, allowing Emory's School of Medicine to rank 18th nationally in funding from the federal agency.
Projects are as diverse as the researchers' imaginations and expertise. Their goal is the same: "transforming health and healing."
Among the notable health science research discoveries here:
- More than nine out of 10 HIV patients in the U.S. who are on lifesaving therapy take a drug developed at Emory.
- Emory cardiologists helped develop lifesaving procedures such as angioplasty, drug-eluting stents, and newer technologies such as off-pump surgery.
- Key advancements against Parkinson's disease, including brain mapping, pallidotomy, and deep brain stimulation, were pioneered at Emory or based on Emory discoveries.
- One of the leading vaccine candidates against HIV, already tested in preclinical and early-stage clinical trials, was developed at the Emory Vaccine Center and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
- The gene responsible for fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation, was discovered by Emory scientists. Emory researchers were among the first to develop genetic tests to diagnose fragile X and are close to identifying therapies.
Emory's campus boasts 1.7 million square feet of scientific research space. Health sciences research, training and patient care are brought together within Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Its components include:
- School of Medicine
- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
- Rollins School of Public Health
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center
- Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health care system in Georgia
Emory's research partners include:
- Area universities, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia and Morehouse School of Medicine
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Georgia Cancer Coalition
- Georgia Research Alliance
