Health Sciences Center Research
Research Related Centers and Institutes
Centers and Institutes
UNM Health Sciences Center research maintains and partners with many centers and institutes, including the new Clinical and Translational Science Center and the UNM Cancer Research & Treatment Center named one of "America's Best Cancer Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report.
- Biomedical Research and Integrative NeuroImaging Center (BRaIN Imaging) - Specializes on integrative neuroimaging of animal models of various neurological and psychiatric disorders
- Cancer Research & Treatment Center - a world-renowned leader in cancer research and cancer treatment
- Center for Community Partnership and Outreach - Aligns and coordinates UNM SOM's institutional resource and assists with Collaborative Research Projects
- Center for Disaster Medicine - Research includes aspects of emergency care such as disaster medicine, event and mass gathering medicine, special populations disaster medicine, triage protocols, and trauma care.
- Center for Development and Disability - Applied research of improving systems of care for people with disabilities and their families.
- Center for Environmental Health Sciences - Conducts basic and translational research that addresses the overall needs of Southwestern communities pertaining to regionally relevant environmental health issues
- Center for Infectious Disease & Immunity - Develops and enhances collaborative programs among researchers, physicians, and business in New Mexico that address the threat of infectious and immunologically mediated diseases in New Mexican populations and the world.
- Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research - Telehealth incorporates electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support virtual access by communities to health care services over distance
- Clinical and Translational Science Center - Integrates and expands the reach of clinical medical research from the laboratory to clinical and medical practice: promoting a bench to bedside to community effort
- Clinical Trials Center - Clinical research facility dedicated to assisting UNM HSC faculty with industry-sponsored research. Assists investigators with budget preparation, IRB submission, contract negotiation and performance of clinical research studies.
- General Clinical Research Center - Provides an optimal setting for medical researchers to conduct safe, controlled, state-of-the-art studies
- Institute for Ethics - Serves as a resource for ethics in health care and research at the institutional, local, regional, national and international levels
- Institute for Public Health - Progresses UNM SOM's public health agenda in education and research; Research programs include Emerging Infections Program and Southwest Addictions Research Group
- Prevention Research Center - Address the health promotion and disease prevention needs of New Mexican communities through participatory, science-based, health promotion and disease prevention research.
- Sleep Disorders Center - Researches on improved methods of diagnosis and treatment for sleep disorders
- The Mind Research Network - The Mind Research Network is an independent non-profit collaboration dedicated to helping people by improving the diagnosis of mental illness and brain disorders; and finding methods of prevention, better treatments and, ultimately, cures