Patient-oriented research is research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive or behavioral phenomena) for which an investigator (or colleague) directly interacts with human subjects.

This area of research includes mechanisms of human disease, therapeutic interventions, clinical trials, development of new technologies, clinical epidemiology and outcomes research.

Research Areas

• Aging
• AIDS
• Allergy
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Blood disorders
• Cancer
• Chronic Lung diseases and other pulmonary diseases
• Diabetes
• Gastro-intestinal diseases
• General Medicine and Primary Care
• Heart Disease
• Infectious Disease
• Kidney Disease, Dialysis and Transplantation
• Liver disease
• Occupational Medicine
• Thyroid, Adrenal and other endocrine diseases
• Women's Health