During the past five years, the Feinberg School's Research Council developed a framework for programmatic development that incorporates likely future research directions, the relative strengths and needs of our current enterprise, funding opportunities, the competitive environment, and the need to build momentum for recruiting. That framework identifies eight focus areas based on the current strengths of our enterprise and five cross-cutting general themes where major advances are most likely. These focus areas are bioengineering, cancer, cardiovascular disease, epidemiology and outcomes, genetic mechanisms of disease, immunology and transplantation, infectious disease, and neuroscience. The research themes are stem cell biology, genetics, signal transduction, functional imaging, and patient populations and health. |
