Research and Graduate Education

Research Activities and Grants at the WVU Health Sciences Center

• Centers and Institutes
• Facilities
• UHA Salaies on Grants
• eRA Commons Registration
• Resources for Researchers

The School of Medicine's strategy for research aims to attract outstanding students and faculty, develop state-of-the-art health care, and stimulate economic development. To these ends, the School emphasizes the following interdisciplinary research focus areas:

Cancer

• Cell signaling and growth control pathways
• Growth factors, bone marrow, and angiogenesis
• Chemotherapy drug development and therapeutics
• DNA damage and repair in cancer cells
• Apoptosis (programmed cell death)
• Screening, prevention, and epidemiology of cancer

Neurosciences

• Auditory-visual system development and function
• Memory and learning: aging and Alzheimer's disease
• Hemostatic and autonomic mechanisms
• Neurodegenerative disorders and stroke
• Neural imaging and cognitive behavior
• Neural development and cortical organization

Cardiovascular Sciences and Vascular Biology

• Endothelial barrier, vascular integrity, and edema
• Renal disease, hypertension, and vascular tone
• Diabetes and obesity
• Lipid metabolism and gene expression
• Regulation of angiogenesis
• Cholesterol screening, risk prevention, and exercise

Lung Cell Biology and Pulmonary Diseases

• Inhalant-mediated lung epithelial injury
• Airway inflammation and asthma
• Alveolar macrophage activation and cytokines
• Lung endothelial protein permeability
• Oxidant-antioxidant balance in the lungw
• Lung cancer, COPD, and fibrosis: environmental/occupational

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

• Developmental immunology
• Function and activation of immune cells
• Inflammatory and cytokine response to antigens
• Gene regulation and metabolism
• Virulence, motility, and chemotaxis

Exercise, Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders

• Nitric oxide and metabolic disorders in diabetes and renal disease
• Relationships of obesity and exercise to diabetes
• Effect of exercise on muscle development and metabolism
• Reproductive and endocrine biology
• Epidemiology and management of obesity and diabetes

West Virginia University is a comprehensive doctoral-granting public institution with a combined agenda of research, teaching, and service. In recognition of this mission, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has ranked WVU as a "Research University I" institution. This designation places WVU among only 59 public and 29 private institutions of higher education nationwide.

Because Molecular and Biomedical Sciences is one of the University's six research focus areas, the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center is actively investing in its faculty, graduate programs, and facilities. At the School of Medicine, this investment has created a dynamic intellectual environment of growth, collaboration, innovation, and achievement. 

Office of Research & Graduate Education
2267 Health Sciences South
WVU School of Medicine
P.O. Box 9104
Morgantown, WV 26506-9104
304-293-7206