Advancing Research INNOVATION

Researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center, located both on the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses, are consistently well-funded.

Highlights from the research enterprise include:

• In fiscal year 2022, OUHSC researchers earned 762 sponsored awards worth a total of $179.3 million.

• In fiscal year 2020, OUHSC set an institutional record, earning $190 million in sponsored funding.

• Funding from the National Institutes of Health, considered the key benchmark for research productivity and reputation on campus, comprises more than half of overall funding.

• Two departments in the OU College of Medicine — Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Family and Preventive Medicine — are ranked in the top 20 medical school departments in the United States for research funding from the NIH.

• Strategic research areas are cancer, diabetes, neurosciences/vision, infectious diseases, and geroscience.

• The OU Health Sciences Center is home to the largest and most advanced biomedical infrastructure in Oklahoma.