Rush University
Chicago, IL·Private·Medical school
7 labs on PI Pages. It spends $139M a year on research and awards 26 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 3,339: 146 undergraduates, 3,193 graduate
- Faculty
- 1,066 full-time
- Campus
- Mostly part-time, not residential
Labs here
Nicole Russo-Ponsaran
Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine whether sleep health, including school-night sleep length, weekend oversleep, social jetlag and daytime sleepiness, differs between night owl and morning lark kindergartners in early- and late-start schools, using wrist actigraphy and questionnaires.
Jeffrey Schneider
Microbiology & Immunology
Characterize the glycosylation patterns, the sugar chains attached to antibodies, on bulk IgA isolated from people living with HIV versus people without HIV, and test whether these patterns correlate with viral load.
Anne-Marie Malfait
Neuroscience
Map nerve fibers and gene activity in skin from classic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patients versus controls, using tissue staining and Visium spatial transcriptomics, which measures gene activity across tissue slices.
Puja Agarwal
Public Health & Epidemiology
Examine whether long-term diet, nutrients and flavonoids relate to activated microglia, the brain's immune cells, in the hippocampus and mid-frontal cortex of autopsied brains from community cohorts of older adults.
Jori Fleisher
Medicine & Clinical Research
Measure whether the peer mentor-delivered PERSEVERE program improves Lewy body dementia caregivers' knowledge, attitudes, mastery and strain, in a randomized trial of 502 caregivers compared with educational links alone.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.