Research
According to public financial data for Feinberg, support for competitive research grants from all external sources totaled $324 million in academic year 2009-2010. In 2010, Feinberg ranked in the top quartile for NIH funding among American medical schools, and six departments ranked in the top 10 for NIH funding: Preventive Medicine (3), Physical Therapy (3), Urology (4), Dermatology (7), Ob/Gyn (7), and Physiology (8). The medical school houses 26 Core Facilities, including a Bioinformatics Consulting Core, Genomics Core and Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Core.
Faculty in the Research program at Feinberg study and mentor in a range of areas, including cancer biology, cell biology, chemical biology, drug discovery, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, medical biology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis, neurobiology, pharmacology, structural biology, biochemistry, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, preventive medicine, epidemiology, health outcomes, quality improvement, and translational sciences.
Robert Furchgott, a graduate of the class of 1940, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his discovery of the role of nitric oxide as a signalling molecule.
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