Dedication to Excellence in Research
The University has long been regarded as a leader in academic research and a premier destination for those who continue to shape the future of biomedical science. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as number 13 for Research in the United States. With nearly 70 percent of the University's overall research funding dedicated to health sciences, the School of Medicine has significantly invested in renewed infrastructure for research disciplines such as developmental, cellular, structural, and computational and systems biology — as well as recruitment for first-class faculty. The University belongs to the American Association of Universities, an organization of 62 leading Public and Private Research Universities in the United States and Canada.
- Areas of research emphasis within the School of Medicine
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Aging
Bioinformatics for health care delivery
Cancer biology & therapeutics
Computational biology
Diabetes & metabolic disease
Developmental biology
DNA damage & repair
Epithelial cell biology
Liver, digestion, & metabolism
Microbiology & immunology (cancer, host-defense interactions, infectious disease, transplantation, vaccine development)
Membrane trafficking
Microbiomes in health & disease
Molecular biophysics & structural biology
Molecular genetics
Neuroscience (cells, systems & disease, learning, memory & cognition, motor systems & prosthetics, neurodegenerative disease, pain & addiction, vision, hearing & other sensory systems)
Pharmacology, signal transduction & drug discovery
Renal, cardiovascular & pulmonary biology
Reproductive biology and fertility
Stem cells & regenerative biology