Editing Emory University (section)

===Facilities and partnerships===
[[File:Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Emory University.jpg|thumb|Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Emory University]]
Emory University is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "[[List of research universities in the United States|R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=139658 |title=Emory University |publisher=[[Indiana University]] |date=2020 |access-date=May 21, 2020 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731002715/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=139658 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, Emory received $894.7 million from external funding agencies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Emory receives record funding for research with $894 million in last year |url=https://news.emory.edu//stories/2021/09/emory_research_funding_2021/index.html |website=Emory News Center |publisher=Emory University |access-date=16 March 2023 |archive-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127072918/https://www.news.emory.edu/stories/2021/09/emory_research_funding_2021/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Emory University leads the nation in the number of students with Kirschstein-[[National Research Service Award]] pre-doctoral fellowships from the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH).<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory ranks first in the U.S. for students with NIH predoctoral fellowships|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/03/er_nih_predoctoral_fellowships/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929105652/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/03/er_nih_predoctoral_fellowships/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1947, the university donated {{convert|15|acre|0|abbr=off}} of land to the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] for the construction of the [[CDC]] headquarters.<ref name=CDC>{{cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/about/history/ourstory.htm |title=Our History – Our Story &#124; About &#124; CDC |access-date=February 29, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619045405/http://www.cdc.gov/about/history/ourstory.htm |archive-date=June 19, 2015}}
</ref> Emory University Prevention Research Center (EPRC) and Emory Center for Injury Control are funded by the CDC.<ref name="Prevention Research Center"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Funded Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCs)|url=https://www.cdc.gov/injury/erpo/icrc/emory.html|website=Cdc.gov|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021003639/https://www.cdc.gov/injury/erpo/icrc/emory.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory University's African Center of Excellence for Public Health Security, which seeks to improve preparedness and response to health threats in low-income countries, is a five-year, multimillion-dollar cooperative program with the CDC and [[International Association of National Public Health Institutes]] (IANPHI).<ref>{{cite web|title=African Center for Public Health Security|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/02/rollins_cdc_partnership_award/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918164842/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/02/rollins_cdc_partnership_award/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory University Center for Global Safe Water (CGSW), which conducts applied research, evaluation, and training to promote global health equity through universal access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, works in collaboration with the CDC.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Safe Water System, Kenya|url=https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/pdf/sws-and-schools-kenya-508c.pdf|website=Cdc.gov|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=June 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621090216/https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/pdf/SWS-and-schools-Kenya-508c.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Safe Water System|url=https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/resources.html|website=Cdc.gov|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021003553/https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/resources.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory University Global Health Institute, funded by the [[Gates Foundation]], partners with the CDC to enhance public health infrastructure in low-resource countries.<ref>{{cite web|title=CDC Global Public Health Network|url=http://www.ianphi.org/news/2011/EmoryAndCDCPartner.html|website=Ianphi.org|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=May 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515050453/http://www.ianphi.org/news/2011/EmoryAndCDCPartner.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Emory University Hospital]] Isolation Unit and Quarantine Station was established by the CDC following the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome|2003 SARS outbreak]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantine-stations-us.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020191249/https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantine-stations-us.html|url-status=dead|title=U.S. Quarantine Stations &#124; Quarantine &#124; CDC|date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=October 20, 2017|website=cdc.gov}}</ref> The isolation and treatment facilities at Emory University played a crucial role in ending the 2014 [[ebola virus cases in the United States]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cases of Ebola Diagnosed in the United States|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/united-states-imported-case.html|website=Cdc.gov|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=February 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226055827/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/united-states-imported-case.html|url-status=live}}</ref> CDC scientists and administrators hold memberships and frequently speak at Emory University's Vaccine Dinner Club (VDC), an association that holds monthly academic meetings to discuss and advance [[vaccine|vaccine research]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory Vaccine Dinner Club|url=http://www.asm.gtorg.gatech.edu/event/emory-vaccine-dinner-club-2/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227101242/http://www.asm.gtorg.gatech.edu/event/emory-vaccine-dinner-club-2/|archive-date=February 27, 2015}}</ref> In 2015, Emory was made a member of the CDC's Prevention Epicenters Program, a research program in which CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) collaborates with academic investigators to conduct innovative infection control and prevention research.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Prevention Epicenters Program|url=https://www.cdc.gov/HAI/epiCenters/about.html|website=Cdc/gov|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626202042/https://www.cdc.gov/hai/epicenters/about.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|title=CDC awards Emory University $2.2M grant|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/10/05/cdc-awards-emory-university-2-2m-grant.html|website=Bizjournals.com|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=July 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702234815/http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/10/05/cdc-awards-emory-university-2-2m-grant.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2015, Emory University, the [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]], the [[Public Health Foundation of India]], and the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]] established the Center for Control of Chronic Conditions in [[New Delhi]], India. The center aims to improve the prevention and care of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental health, and injuries in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory supports quest to defeat diabetes in India|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/10/hspub_defeating_diabetes_in_india/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731015002/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/10/hspub_defeating_diabetes_in_india/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[International Association of National Public Health Institutes]] is based at the university. The association was chartered in 2006 with a $20 million, five-year grant through Emory University from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2015, the Emory Global Health Institute and CDC were made lead partners for the newly created, $75 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2015/05/child-health-and-mortality-prevention-surveillance-network|title=The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Fund Disease Surveillance Network in Africa and Asia to Prevent Childhood Mortality and Help Prepare for the Next Epidemic – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|website=gatesfoundation.org|access-date=April 3, 2021|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417021005/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2015/05/Child-Health-and-Mortality-Prevention-Surveillance-Network|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Emory University - Administration Building.JPG|thumb|Dowman Administration Building]]
Emory University research is heavily funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services's [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web |title=Emory University gets record $572.4M in external research funding in 2015 |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/09/25/emory-university-gets-record-572-4m-in-external.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718113036/https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/09/25/emory-university-gets-record-572-4m-in-external.html |archive-date=July 18, 2017 |access-date=October 20, 2017 |website=Bizjournals.gov}}</ref> The federal agency awarded the university nearly $600 million in the fiscal year of 2021. In 2015, Emory University was one of four institutions selected by the [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] for its seven-year, multimillion-dollar Tuberculosis Research Units (TBRU) program, which aims to drive innovation in [[tuberculosis]] research and reduce the global burden of the disease.<ref name="NIH Tuberculosis Research Program">{{cite web |title=NIH Tuberculosis Research Program |url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/Pages/TBawards.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910055656/https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/Pages/TBawards.aspx |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |access-date=October 20, 2017 |website=Niaid.nih.gov}}</ref> In 2015, an Emory-led research consortium received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research human [[immune system|immune responses]] to [[Varicella zoster virus]] and [[pneumococcal]] vaccination.<ref>{{cite web|title=NIH renews $15 million grant for improving vaccine success|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/pulendran_vaccinology_grant_renewal/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|date=September 15, 2015|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918165641/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/pulendran_vaccinology_grant_renewal/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The university also received a $9 million grant over five years from the NIH to support one of three national Centers for Collaborative Research in [[Fragile X syndrome]]. The grant is a renewal of Emory's National Fragile X Research Center, continuously funded by the NIH for more than 10 years.<ref name="ReferenceC">{{cite web|title=Emory receives record $572.4 million in external research funding for 2015|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/research_funding_2015/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731010459/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/research_funding_2015/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, the university received an $8.9 million grant over five years from the NIH [[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]] (NHLBI) to better understand the role of [[reactive oxygen species]] and inflammation in blood vessel function and to explore new interventions and preventive approaches for [[atherosclerosis]] and [[aortic aneurysm]]s.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> In 2015, the university received an $8 million grant over five years from the NIH to develop and validate mathematical models of how prior immunity affects recall immune responses to influenza viruses. The researchers will create and disseminate powerful, user-friendly modeling tools for use by the wider research community in developing more effective vaccines.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> In 2015, the university received a $3.6 million grant over five years from the NIH to examine the effects of maternal stress on brain function, development, and behavior in African-American infants, including the biochemical connection between the brain and the microbiome.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> In 2015, the university received a $3.5 million grant over five years from the NIH [[National Cancer Institute]] (NCI) for an Informatics Technology for Cancer Research award. Winship Cancer Institute and Emory School of Medicine researchers will develop software tools to help the cancer research community gain new insights from cancer imaging "big data" and develop new open-source cancer research applications.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> In 2015, the university received a $3.4 million grant from the NIH International Collaborations in Infectious Disease Research Program to support a partnership between the Emory Vaccine Center and the [[International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology]] (ICGEB) in [[New Delhi]], India to study [[dengue virus]] infection in India.<ref name="ReferenceC"/>

[[File:Emory University - Charles and Peggy Evans Anatomy Building.JPG|thumb|Charles and Peggy Evans Anatomy Building, [[Emory University School of Medicine]]]]
The Emory University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Emory Vaccine Center are world leaders in AIDS Vaccine Development and HIV Pathogenesis studies are funded by nine different institutes of the NIH and by the [[Georgia Research Alliance]].<ref name="Center for AIDS Research">{{cite web |title=Center for AIDS Research |url=http://www.cfar.emory.edu/about/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115072258/http://www.cfar.emory.edu/about/index.html |archive-date=January 15, 2015 |access-date=October 20, 2017 |website=Cfar.emory.edu}}</ref> The centers include one of the largest groups of academic vaccine scientists in the world and are currently attempting to develop an effective [[HIV vaccine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/attractions/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-atlanta/nkG8S/|title=9 things you didn't know about Atlanta|website=Accessatlanta.com|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912210638/http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/attractions/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-atlanta/nkG8S/|archive-date=September 12, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Emory University researchers [[Dennis C. Liotta]], Raymond F. Schinazi, and Woo-Baeg Choi discovered [[Emtricitabine]], a [[nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor]] (NRTI) used in the treatment of [[HIV]]. The drug was named as one of the world's most important [[antiviral drug]]s by the [[World Health Organization]] and is included in their [[WHO Model List of Essential Medicines|Model List of Essential Medicines]].<ref>{{cite web|title=WHO Model List of EssentialMedicines|url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/93142/1/EML_18_eng.pdf?ua=1|website=World Health Organization|access-date=March 11, 2015|date=October 2013|archive-date=April 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423005004/http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/93142/1/EML_18_eng.pdf?ua=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

Emory University was one of three institutions that successfully treated [[medical evacuation|medical evacuees]] during the [[Ebola virus cases in the United States|2014 ebola outbreak]]. In 2015, the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] named Emory University the lead coordinating center for the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC).<ref name="bizjournals.com">{{cite web |title=Emory University to lead National Ebola Training and Education Center |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/07/01/emory-university-to-lead-national-ebola-training.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113144246/http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/07/01/emory-university-to-lead-national-ebola-training.html |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |access-date=October 20, 2017 |website=Bizjournals.com}}</ref> The university collaborated with the [[University of Nebraska Medical Center]], the [[New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation]], the CDC and the [[Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response]] on the program, which received $12 million. The university also received a $10.8 million grant over three years from the [[U.S. Department of Defense]]'s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([[DARPA]]) to lead a 10-institution national team developing improved therapeutics and vaccines for multiple strains of [[Ebola virus disease|Ebola virus]].<ref name="ReferenceC"/> In 2015, Emory received a three-year, $2.2 million grant from the CDC to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including Ebola, in health-care facilities.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

In 2015, Emory and Georgia Tech were awarded an $8.3 million grant by the [[National Institutes of Health|NIH]] to establish a National Exposure Assessment Laboratory.<ref name="news.emory.edu">{{cite web|title=Emory receives $8.3 million to establish research laboratory|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/research_lab_endowment_rollins/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|date=September 30, 2015|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126014633/https://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/09/research_lab_endowment_rollins/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The laboratory will research the impact of environmental chemicals on children's health.<ref name="news.emory.edu"/> In 2015, the two universities received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF) to create new bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs and concentrations in [[Biomechatronics|healthcare robotics]], which will be the first program of its kind in the Southeastern United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Georgia Tech, Emory unite to train healthcare roboticists|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/10/health_care_robotics/campus.html|website=News.emory.edu|date=October 16, 2015|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126020112/https://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/10/health_care_robotics/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, Emory University, Georgia Tech, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta were awarded a four-year, $1.8 million grant by the [[Cystic Fibrosis Foundation]] in order to expand the Atlanta Cystic Fibrosis Research and Development Program. {{as of|2015}}, Emory jointly manages the second-largest [[cystic fibrosis]] population in the United States.<ref name="cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com"/> In 2015, Emory and Georgia Tech received a $1.6 million grant from the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program to accelerate nine promising technologies developed in research laboratories with commercialization potential.<ref name="ReferenceC"/>

In 2015, Emory University received a $15 million grant from the [[Wounded Warrior Project]] in order to establish the "[[Warrior Care Network]]" and develop innovative approaches to treat veterans with [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] (PTSD) and [[traumatic brain injury]] (TBI).<ref>{{cite web|title=Home Base gives vets hope in PTSD battle|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/07/25/home-base-gives-vets-hope-ptsd-battle/N3QixDEoGaZT1uxP99JSXN/story.html|website=Bostonglobe.com|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731015010/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/07/25/home-base-gives-vets-hope-ptsd-battle/N3QixDEoGaZT1uxP99JSXN/story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2015, Emory University and the [[University of South Florida]] received a $2.5 million grant over five years from the [[John E. Fogarty International Center]] to study links between infectious disease transmission and agricultural practices.<ref name="ReferenceC"/>

In 2023, Emory celebrated the opening of Georgia's largest health sciences research building. The eight-story, 350,000-square-foot building houses more than 1,000 researchers, including 130 principal investigators, from across a variety of specialties including: pediatrics, biomedical engineering, Winship Cancer Institute, cardiovascular medicine, the Emory Vaccine Center, radiology and brain health. The project cost $313 million to complete.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/03/hs_hsrb_dedication_event_16-03-2023/story.html | title=Emory unveils Georgia's largest health sciences research building &#124; Emory University &#124; Atlanta GA }}</ref>

In 2023, Emory launched a global university network consisting of [[University of Bonn]], [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], [[University of St Andrews]], and [[Waseda University]] to deepen partnership in education, research, leadership and innovation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Emory helps establish global university network focused on education, research, leadership and innovation |url=https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/06/er_global_university_network_13-06-2023/story.html |work=Emory University |date=13 June 2023}}</ref>