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$91.5 million

NIH awards rose nearly 7.5% from FY17 to FY23

75th

Ranked 75th by NSF among public research universities for total R&D expenditures in FY22

$352.6 million

Research award dollars rose nearly 22% from FY22 to FY23

$242.2 million

Wayne State reported $242.2 million in research expenditures in FY22

Key research areas spotlight

Environmental

Wayne State’s Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is advancing research approaches to understand and mitigate the effects of the urban industrial environment on human health. Their efforts will help prevent or detect environmentally-induced diseases. The Institute is home to the Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), one of a few select environmental health sciences core centers in the nation funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. CURES researchers and community partners work together to understand how exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors in the urban environment can influence the development of environmentally-linked diseases and are working together to improve living and working in Detroit.

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