The Department of Medicine excels at all stages of the research pipeline from basic discovery, clinical research, and trials, through implementation science and population health. Investments in our investigators and research infrastructure have fueled exponential increases in our department’s research portfolio.
Total award costs for 2023-24 fiscal year were $141.2 million, including $61.7 million in NIH funding. According to rankings released by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research in 2023, the department ranked 30th in NIH funding among all departments of internal medicine at public medical schools in the United States.
Research productivity in the department continue to be exceptional.
The department is responsible for about a third of IU School of Medicine’s total publications and roughly 40% of the school’s high-impact publications. The department produced 1,093 of IU School of Medicine’s 3,439 total publications in 2023. That included 274 of 699 high-impact publications. This rapid growth in research productivity is a testament to the excellence work by investigators in the Department of Medicine and the department's collaborative spirit.
The department’s developed a five-year research strategic plan in 2023. Highlights include:
- Increased scientific productivity from the Department of Medicine
- Increased multidisciplinary research in the emerging high impact areas of Population Health, Precision Health and Health Equity
- Increased patient access to potentially high impact clinical trials
- Increased policy impact of departmental research output at system, state, national and global levels
- Increased basic science discovery addressing the fundamental mechanisms of health and disease
