Schools
American University
Washington, DC·Private
2 labs on PI Pages. It spends $78M a year on research and awards 84 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 15,188: 8,861 undergraduates, 6,327 graduate
- Postdocs
- 7
- Faculty
- 846 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Taisuke Izumi
Microbiology & Immunology
Test in cell culture whether combining PARP inhibitors with HDAC inhibitors reverses HIV latency more effectively in microglia, using human C20 and HMC3-CD4, rat CHME-5 and mouse BV2 microglial lines plus primary monocyte-derived microglia-like cells.
Kathleen Gunthert
Neuroscience
Test whether excitatory or inhibitory non-invasive neuromodulation of right cerebellar lobule VII (RVII) selectively changes social learning, comparing it with sham stimulation in neurotypical adults and adults with autism.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.
Outside science$50M
Social sciences$11M
Physical sciences$5M
Other sciences$5M
Earth sciences$4M
Psychology$1M