Research

The faculty of the Department of Medicine is vigorously engaged in diverse research activities.  Their work spans the spectrum from basic molecular and cellular biology through applied physiology to clinical research, including participation and leadership of pivotal clinical trials.  The research program of the department has been exceptionally successful at attracting extramural support. Recent new awards are in excess of 14 million dollars support with an additional 9.8 million dollars pending.  Moreover, annual grant support awarded to the Department of Medicine has increased 9-fold in the past eight years. 

New initiatives include an NIH Program Project Grant in Immunobiology, the BARI II Multi-center National trial effort that includes a National reference laboratory, and a NCRR Center for Biomedical Excellence (COBRE) grant establishing a Center for Lung Biology and Disease. 

Success in obtaining extramural support is paralleled by research productivity in terms of significant contributions to prestigious peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature.  Last year the Department's faculty published 417 manuscripts, monographs, reviews and book chapters, the large majority of which appeared in prestigious journals and textbooks. 

Accordingly, the future for contributions to improved diagnosis, elucidation of pathogenesis, treatment and health care resulting from the department's research is bright.

For details on research in the department, visit the subspecialties page.

To view the booklet from our Research Day Event held on May 1, 2009 in the Davis Center at the University of Vermont, please Click Here