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Supporting great minds, bridging disciplines, discovering cures


The University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus is the number one research university in Colorado, attracting more than $375 million in research annually. Faculty and administrators receive research support from the Office of Research Development and Education and the Office of Grants and Contracts.

​Strategically built for collaborative game-changing research, our Anschutz Medical Campus has a national reputation for translating new discoveries into therapies and cures. From the first liver transplant to efforts for the global eradication of small pox, our scientists make a difference in the world and faculty earn more than $400 million in research awards each year.

Eli Gold

Saving Our Son

From the time Eli Gold was 6 months old, his parents—Meagan Gold, MPH, and Jacob Gump, PhD, who work at the CU School of Medicine—knew that something was not quite right with their first-born child. A CAT scan of his brain told them what they did not want to hear.

Read more about Eli.

Eli Gold
Saving Our Son
Kim Heidenreich

Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Imagine a professional football player suiting up for a game. He dons pads, shoes, jersey and helmet. Then, he takes a pill to protect his brain from long-term damage from concussion. The research of Kim Heidenreich, PhD, could make this fantasy a reality.

Read more about Heidenreich's research.

Kim Heidenreich
TBI Research
Fulbright Scholar in India

Fulbright Scholar in India

Engineering PhD student Joshua Sperling studied environmental health in India on a Fulbright scholarship.

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Fulbright Scholar in India
Joshua Sperling
Kurt Stenmark, MD, helps patients with cardiovascular pulmonary disease through long-running research projects.

Longest-running Lung Research Project in the Country

Kurt Stenmark, MD, helps patients with cardiovascular pulmonary disease through long-running research projects.

Read more about Kurt Stenmark, MD.

Program: Department of Pediatrics
School/College: School of Medicine
Kurt Stenmark, MD, helps patients with cardiovascular pulmonary disease through long-running research projects.
Kurt Stenmark, MD
Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, uses a Fulbright Scholarship to study indigenous plants, pregnancy and birth in South Africa.

Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, uses a Fulbright Scholarship to study indigenous plants, pregnancy and birth in South Africa.

Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, uses a Fulbright Scholarship to study indigenous plants, pregnancy and birth in South Africa.

Read more about Marie Hastings-Tolsma.

Program: Nurse Midwifery
School/College: CU College of Nursing
Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, uses a Fulbright Scholarship to study indigenous plants, pregnancy and birth in South Africa.
Marie Hastings-Tolsma
Women who have had hysterectomies have greater risk of heart disease.

Women who have had hysterectomies have greater risk of heart disease.

Hysterectomies are the second most common surgical procedure among women, with about 600,000 performed each year.

Read more about Women Heart Disease.

Center: The Center for Women’s Health Research
School/College: CU School of Medicine
Women who have had hysterectomies have greater risk of heart disease.
Arterial Stiffening
Adam Klafter is helping stem cell researchers.

Adam Klafter is helping stem cell researchers.

Shortly after Adam Klafter was born, the neonatologist came to visit his mother in her hospital room.

Read more about Adam Klafter.

Center: Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology
School/College: CU School of Medicine
Adam Klafter is helping stem cell researchers.
Stem Cell Research
the Visible Human

The Visible Human

When students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who are studying anatomy stand next to a cadaver, they have a computer showing the Visible Human at their side.

Read more about the Visible Human

Center: Center for Human Simulation
School/College: CU School of Medicine
the Visible Human
the Visible Human
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