Research

UK College of Medicine has committed substantial resources to develop modern research space to facilitate basic, translational and clinical research. Currently, UK College of Medicine has more than 253,000 square feet of research space. These facilities house a productive faculty of well-funded investigators who regularly publish in top-tier journals and garner highly respected research awards.

The productivity of the faculty has led to impressive gains in acquisition of extramural research funding. Grants and contracts in UK’s College of Medicine reached $107 million in fiscal year 2008, including:

• National Institutes of Health funding – $66,318,273
• Not-for-profit funding – $6,515,475
• Industrial funding – $8,219,033

Grants Officers support College of Medicine faculty and staff with their sponsored-research related activities, including providing guidance on administrative requirements of proposal submission and assistance with proposal budget development; providing expertise on grants administration; and assisting departmental personnel with compliant expenditure of grant funds, reporting cost-sharing and resolution of accounting and other administrative problems regarding grant accounts.