University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS·Public·Medical school
26 labs on PI Pages. It spends $546M a year on research and awards 351 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 30,885: 22,216 undergraduates, 8,669 graduate
- Postdocs
- 203
- Faculty
- 2,643 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Kyoungchul Kong
Physics
Develop quantum algorithms for particle physics data analysis, collision event reconstruction and anomaly detection.
Jennifer Davis
Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether tirzepatide, a dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor drug used for diabetes and obesity, lowers colorectal tumor formation and growth when given before tumor induction in diet-fed iKAP (inducible Kras, Apc, p53) mice.
Ilya Vakser
Biophysics
Characterize docking-derived energy landscapes, maps of how favorable each relative position of two molecules is, for different types of macromolecules, and improve docking to capture transient interactions.
Brenda Salley
Psychology
Test whether Talk With Me Baby, language coaching delivered during well-child visits, improves the home language environment and child language by age 2, using a 16-clinic randomized trial with 400 families, LENA recordings, home videos, and standardized tests.
Dionyssios Mantzavinos
Mathematics & Statistics
Develop analytical tools to establish existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations posed in bounded domains in two or more spatial dimensions.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.