Research
Research is at the heart of the academics, and the goal for all of our research is to improve the health of our patients and communities, with an emphasis on health equity.
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Measuring Impacts One Race at a Time
Joel Stitzel, PhD, professor of Biomedical Engineering, and his research team are leading the race to improve driver safety in NASCAR and other motorsports.
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Medicine and the Military
Timothy Sell, PhD, PT, has been awarded $4.5 million from the Department of Defense to better understand and provide recommendations on injury prevention through physical interventions and equipment modifications.
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Fifty Years of Recognized Expertise in Cancer Research
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center celebrates 50 years of NCI designation.
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Researchers TEAM Up to Better Manage Blood Pressure
Cheryl D. Bushnell, MD, leads team granted $29.9 million to study ways to improve post-acute stroke care, secondary prevention.
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AI: The Future of Health Care
Metin Nafi Gurcan, PhD, leads the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research to serve as a trusted partner and advise on the role of AI in medicine.
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LEAPs and Bounds: New Ways to Treat Obesity
Researchers Kristina Henderson Lewis, MD, and Jamy Ard, MD, revive interest in phentermine with goal to improve health equity.
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Infants and Older Adults May Hold Key to More Effective Vaccines
Martha Alexander-Miller, PhD, and the research team at the Center for Vaccines at the Extremes of Aging look for answers.
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Keeping Youth Athletes Safe
Joel Stitzel, PhD, and Jillian Urban, PhD, are pioneering research that improves the safety of youth football on and off the field.
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Zombies: Are They Already in Your Head?
Miranda Orr, PhD, is examining the role of senescent “zombie” cells in brain disease and how they impact Alzheimer’s Disease research.
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RegeneratOR Test Bed Provides Access to Emerging Technology
Leaders in regenerative medicine provide free space and a state-of-the-art facility for companies to advance discoveries.
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Community Partnership to Improve Cancer Care
$25 million grant helps researchers bring cancer clinical trials and care delivery studies to people in their communities.
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Scientists and Students Study the Risks of Space Travel
Researchers at the Jeffrey Willey Lab are working with NASA to utilize new tactics, approaches and exploration quests to keep astronauts safe and healthy throughout their missions.
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Increasing Health Equity in Alzheimer's Disease Research
MACHE leads community-engaged research efforts for a $46 million grant aimed at representing those of African ancestry and Hispanic/Latinx individuals in Alzheimer’s genetic studies.
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Advancing Care for Stroke Patients
Researchers created the Comprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services study, the first statewide study to improve care and resources after a stroke.
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Performance Research Gets You Back on Your Feet
Atrium Health clinicians and researchers created the innovative Return to Performance Pathway Program to get people back to their desired physical activities in under six weeks.
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Innovative Teamwork Advances Medical Treatments
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine translates scientific discoveries to revolutionize the future of health care.
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Aging Well: Discoveries Help Empower Older Adults
As leaders in discovering, sharing and implementing the latest treatments and therapies, our researchers are constantly working to advance care for older adults.
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Regular Blood Pressure Checks Can Save Your Life
Our researchers discovered that lowering blood pressure is the first intervention in history to also reduce the risk for memory loss, in addition to heart attacks and strokes.
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Youth Sports Research Scores Points with Parents
Our researchers spearheaded a first-of-its-kind youth football head injury study that has helped make youth sports safer.
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Cracking the Code to Discover Risks of Alzheimer’s Disease
Our researchers are joining forces to develop screening tools and study biomarkers to help solve the puzzle of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Improved Outcomes for Children Exposed to Opioids Before Birth
Our researchers are addressing the ongoing medical and developmental needs of children born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
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Regenerative Medicine Takes Research to Galactic Heights with NASA
WFIRM is working with NASA to accelerate engineering innovations and strategies for making tissues with artificial blood vessels, as well as health risks astronauts face during missions in deep space.
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Making Clinical Trials More Accessible to Underserved Populations
Through collaboration and building trust, our researchers are working to impact access to life-changing targeted cancer therapies for all.
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CUPID Research: Finding Faster Ways to Pinpoint the Deadliest Strokes
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health received pilot funding to collaborate and improve patient care.
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Tackling Diabetes with Teamwork
The North Carolina Diabetes Research Center led by Don McClain, MD, PhD, leverages cross-institution collaborations to speed the process from discovery to improving health care throughout our state.
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Walk On! Research Project Takes Leap Forward
Program increases chances to improve mobility and reduce social isolation in older adults thanks to partners at Atrium Health and new funding from The Duke Endowment.
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What is an Academic Learning Health System?
The next generation of health care innovation.
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On the mPATH to Better Health and Longer Lives
Researchers place the power of health screenings directly in patients' hands.
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School Leaders Honor Veterans Health Administration
School faculty reflect on the school's affiliation with the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury in celebration of the Veterans Health Administration 75th anniversary.
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HEART Pathway
Revolutionary clinical algorithm for risk stratification of patients who present with chest pain has evolved capabilities and expanded influence since its 2016 release.
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A Geriatrician at Your Fingertips
Read how our new predictive tool, Electronic Frailty Index (eFI), enhances health care and quality of life outcomes for older adults.
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Closing the Gap: The IGLOO Story
Wake Forest demonstrates how a health care system can more quickly turn research outcomes into patient care with a new blood pressure measurement protocol that may help prevent strokes and cardiovascular events.
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Decoding Vaccine Trials
As COVID-19 vaccines are introduced to the public, a few of our biostatistics experts explain the basic design of a vaccine trial and how we determine whether a vaccine is safe.
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Filling A Critical Translation Gap
Wake Forest School of Medicine will serve as one of six sites nationally for the study Empowering the Participant Voice: Collaborative Infrastructure and Validated Tools for Collecting Participant Feedback to Improve the Clinical Research Enterprise.
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Mask Shortages and Innovative Collaboration
How do we create a better mask? Philip Brown, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest School of Medicine is looking to do just that.
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Positioned for Progress: Cancer Biology at Wake Forest Baptist
Wake Forest School of Medicine's cancer biology research team works to move cancer research forward, from cell culture to experimental animal models to human patients.
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Seeking Solutions
Wake Forest researchers are collaborating across the organization to combat the opioid crisis by investing in a range of programs and continuing rigorous research.
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Using Noninvasive Brainwave Technology to Treat PTSD Symptoms
Researchers test noninvasive brainwave technology to see if it would help military veterans who report experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Building a Better Body on a Chip
Scientists create micro-sized 3D organ structures on chip to test how organ systems react to aid drug development process.
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Data Networks Power COVID Research
Wake Forest School of Medicine researchers are contributing to the development of powerful new data networks that will provide important new information in the quest to conquer COVID-19.