Research Centers and Focus Areas

Cancer is a national health problem. Researchers based in our nation’s capital focus on basic, translational, and computational approaches with the shared aim of “engineering cancer solutions.”

Each year, more than 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and some 600,000 die of it. At the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, research teams are at work to combat the disease.

The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research explores the role of exercise in preventing cardiovascular, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer, which account for more than 75% of health care costs in the United States.

The Center for Health Behaviors Research conducts transformative health behaviors research with the primary objectives of prevention and treatment of life-style related diseases.

Research in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute's Center for Human Neuroscience Research covers a range of fields, including neuroscience, magnetometry, computational psychiatry, psychology, political science, and economics.

The most complex of all organ systems, the brain is composed of hundreds of billions of neural cells that are interconnected and work in concert to produce an array of human behaviors.

The Center for Vascular and Heart Research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute serves as a nexus for research teams exploring basic research questions about the heart.