Welcome
Tackling society's Grand Challenges - together
Wayne State’s Grand Challenges initiative unites researchers, students and partners to confront the most pressing issues facing society today — health, artificial intelligence, sustainable environments and smart mobility. Together, these teams turn bold ideas into real-world solutions, developing new therapies that improve lives, advancing ethical and powerful AI tools, designing sustainable urban neighborhoods, and creating technologies that make movement safer and smarter. From the heart of Detroit, they create solutions that shape the future of our city — and the world beyond.
Research facts
NIH awards rose nearly 11% from FY17 to FY24
Wayne State has 432 patents issued (U.S. and foreign) since FY15.
Ranked 75th by NSF among public research universities for R&D expenditures in FY24
Wayne State reported $291.7 million in research expenditures in FY24
Key research areas spotlight
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.
News
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Wayne State receives NSF award to strengthen pathways for engineering technology students and meet growing workforce demand
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Wayne State University celebrates major construction milestone with Health Sciences Research Building steel topping-out ceremony
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Wayne State research study investigates how maternal viral infections shape lifelong immune health in offspring
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Researchers at Wayne State University and Indiana University working to develop next-generation cancer therapies by switching off cancer’s DNA repair machinery
Cores and facilities spotlight
The Proteomics Core uses mass spectrometry to study individual proteins and the full complement of proteins in any cell, tissue or organism. Quantification and informatics solutions to data analysis are available.
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