University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL·Private·Medical school
30 labs on PI Pages. It spends $559M a year on research and awards 297 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 22,399: 14,514 undergraduates, 7,885 graduate
- Postdocs
- 264
- Faculty
- 1,569 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Kevin Van Der Jeught
Microbiology & Immunology
Generate and characterize mouse, human and cross-reactive nanobodies against ST2, the IL-33 receptor, and measure their ability to bind and block ST2 as candidates for colorectal cancer imaging and therapy.
Ramiro Verdun
Biochemistry
Determine how bypass of transcription-blocking DNA lesions by RNA Polymerase II, the enzyme that copies genes into RNA, disrupts the cellular response to ultraviolet radiation damage and disturbs normal cell function.
James Termini
Microbiology & Immunology
Build and validate engineered probiotic strains that survive oral delivery and colonize the gut, with Bifidobacterium longum secreting functional immunoadhesins derived from the HIV antibodies 3BNC117 and 10-1074.
Merline Benny
Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether genetic deletion or drug inhibition of gasdermin D (GSDMD) protects newborn mice exposed to excess oxygen from vascular and cardiac dysfunction, measured in both newborn and adult mice.
Alejandro Caicedo
Physiology
Uncover how nutrients sensed in the gut activate entero-pancreatic neurons, using live-animal calcium imaging of pancreatic cells while different contents are perfused through the duodenum in mice.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.