Grand Challenge Research Themes

1) Healthy Communities

  • Integrative Health Sciences
  • OneHealth:
  • Biomedical Health Science Institute:
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Faculty of Infectious Diseases:
  • Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine:
  • Center for Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases:
  • Georgia Cancer Center:
  • Obesity Initiative:
  • Environmental Health Sciences:
  • Epidemiology:
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Owens Institute of Behavioral Research:
  • Center for Research on Behavioral Health & Human Services Delivery:
  • Center for Family Research:
  • Center for Gambling Research:
  • Center for Gene-Social Environment Transactions:
  • Aging Research
  • Institute of Gerontology:
  • Food Safety and Security
  • Center for Food Safety:

2) Environmental Sustainability

  • Sustainable Conservation
  • Center for Integrative Conservation Research:
  • Ecology
  • Odum School of Ecology:
  • Savannah River Ecology Laboratory:
  • CoweetaLong Term Ecological Research:
  • Climate Change Research
  • Climate and Society Initiative:
  • Forestry Management
  • Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources:
  • Marine Sciences
  • Department of Marine Sciences:
  • Sea Grant Program:

3) Security

  • Center for International Trade & Security
  • Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense
  • Bioenergy Systems Research Institute

4) Core Science Strengths

  • Regenerative Bioscience Center
  • Center for Drug Discovery
  • Center for Molecular Medicine
  • BioImaging Research Center
  • Coverdell Microscopy Core
  • Department of Microbiology
  • Plant Center
  • Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics
  • Georgia Genomics Facility
  • Bioexpression & Fermentation Facility
  • Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
  • Center for Computational Chemistry
  • Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
  • Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Center for Simulational Physics
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Chemical Biology Group
  • Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Regulatory Affairs Graduate Program
  • Professional Masters in Biomanufacturing & Bioprocessing

Contact: Dr. Robert A. Scott; Associate Vice President for Research;