WHSC Research Summary
Scientists in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center received $387.5 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2008 within schools of medicine, public health and nursing and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Key health sciences research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health include the Emory Winship Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated center; the Emory Vaccine Center, one of the world's largest vaccine research centers; the Emory Center for AIDS Research; the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute; the Influenza Pathogenesis & Immunology Research Center; the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Chemical and Biology Discovery Center.
Other multidisciplinary centers include the Emory Transplant Center, Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute, Global Health Institute, Heart and Vascular Center, Center for Comprehensive Informatics and Comprehensive Neurosciences Center.
Emory is a partner in two state collaborations of academia, business, and government: the Georgia Research Alliance and the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Other key research partners include the nearby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the University of Georgia.
The WHSC is a national leader in technology transfer, with 27 products in the marketplace and 12 more in human clinical trials. At least 42 start-up companies have resulted from licensing Emory technologies, and through fiscal year 2008 Emory had received more than $760 million in licensing revenues.
