The Department’s research reached new heights this year, with $8.2 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding securing the No. 24 spot in the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research rankings, up from $4.8 million and 34th place in 2023. Our NIH funding, supporting ground breaking work in thoracic cancer immunotherapy, myocardial regeneration, and mass spectrometry-based tissue diagnostics, is complemented by nearly $20 million in federal, state, nongovernmental organization and private funding. This year also brought several firsts, including our first CPRIT award—a $6 million grant to recruit nano-biophotonics expert Thomas E. Milner, Ph.D., from the University of California to direct the new Michael E. DeBakey Center for Nano-Photonics. We also secured our first faculty K08 award, granted to Jennifer Leonard, M.D., in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, for her research on posttraumatic immune dysfunction and its role in
acute lung injury.
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Research by Division
Research Laboratories
- Aortic Disease Research Laboratory
- Immune Evaluation Laboratory
- Laboratory for Cardiac Regeneration
- Laboratory for Medical Mass Spectrometry
- Laboratory for Translational Thoracic Oncology Research
- Pediatric Surgical Oncology Laboratory
- Surgical Bioengineering Research Group
- Surgical Translational Oncology Lab
- Systems Onco-Immunology Lab
- Virus-Like Particle Translational Oncology Lab
