Envision World-Renowned Research

UI graduate scholars work with faculty in an atmosphere of academic freedom and verve that stimulates creativity, questioning, and penetrating thought.

UI researchers have collected more than $3 billion in external funding since 1966. $334 million was garnered externally in FY04 for research, education, and service.

The University of Iowa Research Foundation filed more than 100 patent applications on inventions in FY03. It earned more than $8 million in license revenue.

Researchers at the Carver College of Medicine are leaders in cardiovascular disease, brain imaging and neurosciences, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, and Huntington's disease.

UI has the only center of its kind devoted to studying the causes of and treatments for age-related macular degeneration.

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center is the world's largest center devoted to cochlear implant studies.

The first large-scale preventive trial for prostate cancer began at The University of Iowa and other sites across the U.S. in 1993.

The University of Iowa is part of a major national study that investigates how to prevent heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis in women.

UI research led to the discovery or development of blood banking, educational television, the Gallup Poll, and the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Where will UI research lead next?

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