Research
Every new challenge presents an opportunity for Aggies to blaze a trail, and in health care and medical research, those opportunities are vast. Our researchers are forging paths to discovery with a common goal in mind: improving human health.
Discoveries across disciplines
Our faculty and students work tirelessly in the pursuit of discoveries that impact health and health care delivery. We made a portable water purification device for military, created a diagnostic for tuberculosis that delivers results in minutes, built a condom that has the potential to end the transmission of HIV, and restored missing parts of the human face through artificial means. Explore the signature research programs and priorities across our colleges, centers and institutes.
Dentistry
- Tooth development and genetics
- Dentin, bone and cartilage matrix biology
- Temporomandibular joint function, dysfunction and pain
- Implants, bone regeneration devices and devices to move teeth
- Stem cell applications for regenerative strategies and scaffold design
- Use of biomarkers to detect oral cancer
Medicine
- Brain, behavior, psychiatric and neurological disorders
- Biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine
- Cancer, cell and developmental biology
- Cardiovascular, lymphatic and metabolic disease
- Genetics, genomics and networking biology
- Infection, immunity and inflammation
Nursing
- Forensic nursing
- Hispanic populations
- Childhood obesity
- Public health nursing
- Chronic diseases
- Vulnerable populations
Pharmacy
- Product development and pharmacokinetics
- Molecular biology and cancer therapeutics
- Bioanalytical services
Public Health
- Prevention research
- Healthy aging through long-term care issues
- Health care quality and cost effectiveness
- Environmental exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes
Biosciences & Technology
- Cancer and stem cell biology
- Environmental and genetic medicine
- Infectious and inflammatory diseases
- Translational cancer research
Turning inventions into lifesaving treatments
Innovation that occurs in a lab is great, but patients won’t benefit unless it is taken to the bedside. Our goal is to close the gap between new knowledge and new therapies by making invention an integral component to our research program. Explore some of the ways our researchers are translating discoveries from bench to bedside:
Groundbreaking Engineering Medicine Initiative
Texas A&M is the meeting place for the brightest minds in engineering and health care. Here we have created the nation’s first four-year program that fully integrates engineering into medical school, resulting in innovations that create tangible benefits for patients and the broader health care community.
Explore Engineering Medicine