| North Carolina Baptist Hospital |
The main teaching hospital of the WFU School of Medicine |
| Brenner Children's Hospital and Health Services |
Founded in 1986, Brenner Children’s Hospital and Health Services cares for children from western North Carolina as well as parts of Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. A part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Brenner Children’s treats young patients from birth to age 21. |
| Amos Cottage Children’s Treatment Program |
Amos Cottage is the site of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the Department of Pediatrics. |
| W.G. (Bill) Hefner Salisbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
The VA Medical Center is a 533-bed general medical, surgical, and mental health facility serving more than 29,000 veterans in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina. |
| Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine |
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is helping to realize the clinical promise of emerging technologies in tissue engineering, cellular therapeutics, and biomedical engineering. These technologies include the creation of tissues and organs from the patients’ own cells for repair and replacement. Other areas of current research include nuclear transfer, stem cells, drug delivery, and biohybrid devices. |
| Brain Tumor Center of Excellence |
The Brain Tumor Center of Excellence (BTCOE) was established in 2004 on the foundations of excellence in both clinical care and clinical research in patients with brain tumors. The BTCOE focuses on developing an effective management of brain neoplasia, since many brain tumors represent unmet needs in medicine. |
| Center for Biomedical Engineering |
The Center for Biomedical Engineering is dedicated to fostering research and educational programs that link clinical applications to biomedical engineering. The CBME is the focal point at the Medical Center for the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES), which offers M.S., Ph.D., and M.D./Ph.D. degrees. |
| Center for Biomolecular Imaging |
The Center for Biomolecular Imaging (CBI) is a multidisciplinary, multitechnology center comprising state-of-the-art imaging modalities that until recently were not available to researchers. Within the center are a 16-slice Light Speed Pro CT scanner, two MRI scanners (1.5T, 7.0T) and two PET scanners (GE Advance, Micro PET). Also available for imaging research are a PET/CT scanner and 3T MRI scanner. The center also houses two dedicated 4-dimensional workstations used for post-image acquisition data manipulation, including temporal analysis of 3-dimensional data sets. |
| Center for Human Genomics |
The Center for Human Genomics is a multidisciplinary research center at Wake Forest funded by public and private grants working to examine common complex diseases with a genetic component such as aging-related disorders, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and its complications, cancer with specific emphasis on prostate cancer, and respiratory diseases (allergy, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and sleep disorders). |
| Center for the Neurobehavioral Study of Alcohol |
The focus of the Center for the Neurobehavioral Study of Alcohol (CNSA) is to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to study the risk for and neurobiological consequences of excessive ethanol self-administration. Advances in our understanding of the primary factors that establish, maintain, and are consequences of excessive alcohol self-administration are greatly enhanced by the use of appropriate animal models. |
| Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse |
The Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse is a multidisciplinary research and training center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This center provides an environment for scientific interactions among faculty and students at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and provides information about substance abuse to the general public through its outreach program. |
| Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders |
Established in 1981, the Center for Voice Disorders (CVSD) of Wake Forest University was one of the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary voice centers in the United States. The CVSD resides within the Department of Otolaryngology of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and in addition to state-of-the-art patient care activities, its purpose is to foster research and educational programs related to voice, speech, and swallowing disorders. |
| Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center |
The Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center (CMCRC) has as its mission to conduct research on animal patients, particularly nonhuman primates, to gain insight into human health and disease. The goal is to span the gap between research in fundamental systems and the understanding of how pathobiologic processes express themselves in clinical disorders. |
| Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University |
The Cancer Center continues as a driving force in the rapid and sustained growth of cancer programs within the institution. The institution has a strong cancer-funding base with 38 peer-reviewed grants and contracts from the National Cancer Institute and a nearly equal number of cancer-focused grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Department of Defense. |
| Comprehensive Epilepsy Center |
Started in 1976 as a collaborative effort with the University of Virginia to promote research in epilepsy, the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine aims to maximize the potential of individuals with epilepsy through research, education, and clinical services. This program has received national and international recognition for its contributions to improved patient care. |
| General Clinical Research Center |
The primary mission of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) is to provide clinical investigators with the fundamental resources and controlled environment necessary to conduct research with human subjects. The GCRC participates in a network of 79 such centers in the U.S., located primarily in academic medical centers and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). |
| Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center |
The Hypertension Center was established in 1992 to amalgamate various efforts in the investigation of the fundamental mechanisms of high blood pressure and vascular disease into a program that allowed for the lineal integration of basic and clinical research. The mission of the center is to attend to the human causes of high blood pressure and related diseases of the heart and blood vessels through investigation of the genetic and molecular mechanisms of hypertension in the setting of clinical research and patient care. |
| J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging and Rehabilitation |
The J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging is the hub of a comprehensive, coordinated effort to learn more about aging, to teach others what is learned, and to improve the health of older people. Research at the center focuses on preventing disability and maintaining the independence of older adults and is pursued by using an interdisciplinary approach that traverses the entire spectrum of biomedical investigation, including molecular biology, in vitro and animal studies, clinical research, behavioral and social sciences, and epidemiology. |
| Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health |
The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health at Wake Forest University is a new multidisciplinary center established in response to an urgent need to close the health gap between minorities and the rest of the United States population. It was founded on the premise that health and disease cannot be viewed solely as biological occurrences, but also as mental and physical consequences of underlying behavioral, social, and cultural phenomena. |
| MICROMED: Resource Center for Electron Microscopy |
MICROMED is a full-service microscopy laboratory that provides instrumentation, technical services, and collaborative support in numerous areas of biomedical research. The facility houses light and electron microscopes and a laser scanning confocal microscope. These instruments are designed to provide new information related to the structure and chemistry of solid state and biological materials. The resource provides ultrastructural technology to the research community. |
| Women’s Health Center of Excellence |
The Women’s Health Center of Excellence is dedicated to fostering excellence and innovation in research on women’s health and gender differences, educating health professionals and the public about women’s health issues, and enhancing the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women faculty to key leadership positions. |