Core Facilities, School of Medicine Research Centers, Other Centers, Institutes and Programs
Research News at UVa
Research Overview
The University of Virginia (UVa) is a Carnegie I research institution comprising approximately 20,000 students (over 13,000 undergraduates, approximately 4700 graduate students and 1700 professional students from all 50 states and nearly 100 countries) located in the city of Charlottesville. It has been ranked first or second among public research universities since US News & World Report began rankings in 1998, and is in the top 25 of all national research universities. (University Rankings Page). UVa supports graduate and professional schools in Arts and Sciences, Architecture, Business, Commerce, Education, Engineering and Applied Science, Law, Medicine and Nursing. The University is known for a long tradition of collaboration and faculty development. While highly competitive for extramural support, within the institution there is a strong spirit of collaboration, mentoring and support of younger faculty and students, which creates a nurturing learning environment. (Research Faculty Directory) Notably, the University also has a long history of leadership in academic ethics, with a student-managed Code of Honor that has been in effect for more than 150 years. (Research Ethics Course)
The School of Medicine is part of the University of Virginia Health System, which now has over 600 full-time faculty, approximately 500 medical students and 380 Ph.D. track students. It is ranked in the top 30, in research among medical schools nationally (US News & World Report) and received over $133 million in NIH funding last year. (Research Mission) The School of Medicine and Health System are in the midst of a 10-year strategic expansion plan that has seen the completion of two new research buildings to be devoted to vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, and cancer, as well as a translational research program. We have also recently broken ground on a new Cancer Center building. (School of Medicine Factbook)
The Health System is a major tertiary-care health sciences center serving a large geographic area surrounding central-west Virginia. The University Hospital includes 534 beds and a Level I trauma center, and Health System outpatient clinics are located adjacent to the Hospital and Medical School. The Health System supports over 541,000 outpatient visits, 57,000 emergency room visits and 27,000 inpatient admissions per year. A number of rural outreach programs, including a telemedicine program extends access to the University of Virginia's Health System into rural environments.