Our researchers are pioneering biomedical discoveries that improve the lives of patients in our community and around the world.
With more than 22 research centers and institutes and 140 core research laboratories, experts across departments, divisions and campuses of The Ohio State University collaborate and drive innovation.
What’s great about research careers at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center?
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center has rapidly grown into one of the largest research powerhouses in the nation. We have more health sciences colleges on a single campus than any other U.S. university, and our success in obtaining funding from the National Institutes of Health and other grants has advanced the development of our extensive laboratory and clinical infrastructure.
Nationally recognized
- One of only 64 members of a National Institutes of Health consortium that speeds the translation of scientific discovery into better patient care.
- One of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States; the NCI rated our center “exceptional” – the NCI’s highest ranking.
- More than 2,000 active research studies and clinical trials in virtually every medical specialty.
- 11 faculty members are currently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, two to the National Academy of Inventors and one to the National Academy of Sciences.
- Eleven departments ranked in the top 30 for the fiscal year 2023 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research Rankings, a compilation of NIH funding rankings for U.S. medical schools.
Dedicated research space
The academic medical center has more than 20 research centers and institutes, along with 25 core research laboratories that promote collaboration among experts from virtually all departments, divisions and branch campuses of The Ohio State University. Dedicated research space allows members of our faculty to discover innovative, personalized treatments for the benefit of our patients and others around the world.
- We have research laboratories dedicated to experimental cancer therapeutics, heart and lung disease, neurobiology of disease, imaging, microbial pathogenesis, pharmacogenomics, bioinformatics, diabetes, structural biology and tissue engineering.
- Our core labs are for shared use in genomics, cytogenetics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, BSL-3/viral vector, flow cytometry, histology, tissue engineering, X-ray crystallography, cryogen storage, and light and electron microscopy.
