Promote Biomedical Research and Innovation

Accelerate and support innovative research that improves public health by:

• exploring new frontiers in clinical, translational and basic research; develop new research initiatives that build on our current strengths and recruit and retain outstanding faculty. • striving to create new, as well as strengthen existing, strategic partnerships to enhance and expand research opportunities. • strategically improving research infrastructure to ensure faculty and students have access to research cores critical for bench-to-bedside translational research to ensure excellence in both the conduct and training of biomedical research.

GOAL 1 Enhance biomedical, translational, clinical science and public health research.

Subgoal 1: Identify priority research areas that promote collaborative research, as well as strengthen NYMC competitiveness to secure grant funding and other extramural funding opportunities. Subgoal 2: Improve retention of successful junior faculty. Subgoal 3: Build strategic partnerships with clinical and biomedical affiliates. Subgoal 4: Improve the research infrastructure including core facilities identified as essential, both in terms of equipment and appropriate trained staff/directors. Subgoal 5: Strategically enhance support for existing investigators to promote extramural research funding as well as innovative expansion into new research areas.