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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Vice President Office for Research (VPR) creates an outstanding climate of support for USU researchers, enables stellar research advances, optimizes the USU administrative research systems, and delivers outstanding support services that help researchers succeed.

We coordinate, initiate, and support research related to military health needs based on a holistic framework of health that includes prevention, resilience, treatment, recovery, rehabilitation, reintegration, and the overall well-being of the warfighter, as well as dual benefit outcomes that will improve civilian health. Our team advances research and collaborations utilizing several mechanisms, to include grants and a variety of cooperative agreements.

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Research Strategic Plan - 2021-2025

Annual Research Report - 2023

 

500

active research projects

190

active investigators

682

Foreign and Domestic Active Patents

210M

Research Dollars Awarded annually, approximately

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RESEARCH AROUND THE UNIVERSITY

The Graduate School of Nursing faculty and students are involved in research that spans the translational research spectrum including basic science, qualitative inquiry, observational studies, clinical trials, health services research and population health. Examples of topic areas include: Care of Military, Families and Veterans, Diabetes, Obesity, Wounded Warrior Wellness, Informatics, and Trauma Anesthesiology

GSN

The School of Medicine manages a targeted portfolio of high-impact military health research. Through interdisciplinary centers and departmentally-based research programs, the school spans the range of scientific endeavor from molecular biology to global health.

MEDSCHOOL

The Postgraduate Dental College provides a dental research infrastructure capable of sustaining military-relevant research programs in alignment with MHS and DoD priorities. Our research is focused in five primary areas: Prevention and Safety, Health and Human Performance, Materials, Devices, and Techniques, Technology and Innovation, and Pain.

PDC

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

COLLABORATE

CENTERS

RESEARCH DAYS AT USU

We take utmost pride in promoting and highlighting research by students and postdoctoral fellows at USU and its affiliate institutions through Research Days.

Research Days celebrates the complementary roles that basic science, medicine, nursing, dental, public health, and behavioral sciences play in health promotion. Each year, over 200 research abstracts are submitted and represent over 17 areas of science. Poster presentations, invited speakers, and panels showcase USU’s special role in civilian, military, and public health research initiatives across the health sciences.

Research Days serves to inform the local scientific community, collaborative institutions, and other federal agencies about significant research projects conducted across the health sciences at USU and its affiliates. This annual event formally encompasses student oral and poster presentation sessions, invited lectures from distinguished speakers, and an awards ceremony celebrating postdocs, graduate students, and early career investigators.

 

PROGRAM CONTACT INFORMATION

OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

For more information or assistance with research administration at USU, please contact us.

(301) 295-3303

4301 Jones Bridge Road
Building A, Room 1032
Bethesda, MD 20814

 

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