University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT·Public·Medical school
58 labs on PI Pages. It spends $789M a year on research and awards 366 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 41,068: 31,724 undergraduates, 9,344 graduate
- Postdocs
- 283
- Faculty
- 2,500 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Norman Taylor
Neuroscience
Test whether recruiting pain-boosting neurons in the rostral ventromedial medulla drives chronic postsurgical pain in consomic rats, by silencing injury-activated neurons with TRAP-targeted inhibitory DREADDs.
William Johnson
Earth & Environmental Science
Quantify how particles such as microplastics and pathogens attach to sediment grains after repeated encounters, using laboratory transport experiments in porous media combined with surface characterization.
Hongchao Guo
Physiology·Early-career
Test whether a signaling chain from reactive oxygen species through the transcription factors FOXO1 and KLF5 to IL-18 and IL-1β drives endothelial dysfunction, using iPSC-derived endothelial cells and transgenic mice carrying the ALDH2*2 variant.
Genevieve Albouy
Neuroscience
Test whether temporal interference stimulation (TIS), a non-invasive way to stimulate deep brain regions, applied to the hippocampus enhances offline motor sequence learning in young healthy adults, compared with sham stimulation.
James Heys
Neuroscience·Early-career
Test whether axons (nerve fibers) from the anterior cingulate cortex that end in the medial entorhinal cortex carry a clock-like signal of elapsed time, using large-scale optical imaging in mice performing virtual-reality timing tasks.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.