Research Centers and Institutes

The University of Louisville Office of Research and Innovation supports research centers and institutes that can help your company solve problems and innovate. These centers bring together faculty members from different disciplines, giving you one-stop-shop access to top talent in a particular area of research, from micro/nano technology, to additive manufacturing, to environmental health and wellness to cancer and heart treatment and innovation.

The University of Louisville Office of Research and Innovation supports research centers and institutes that can help your company solve problems and innovate. These centers bring together faculty members from different disciplines, giving you one-stop-shop access to top talent in a particular area of research. Centers and institutes are established in order to promote the development of new knowledge and enhance the research productivity of individual faculty.

With 10+ affiliated faculty from engineering, medicine and dentistry the AMIST supports and promotes the broad range of additive manufacturing (AM) research activities at the University of Louisville. Current faculty research is funded by industry and multiple federal agencies, including DoD (Navy, Air Force and Army), NASA and NSF.

Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science & Technology
J. B. Speed School of Engineering
Eastern Parkway
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: 502.852.xxxx
Fax: 502.852.xxxx

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The mission of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center is to generate new knowledge relating to the nature of cancer, and to create new and more effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and therapy, while delivering medical advances with compassion and respect to cancer patients throughout our region.

Brown Cancer Center
200 Abraham Flexner Way
Louisville, KY 40202  
866.521.3627
502.587.4011

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The Center for Health Hazards Preparedness is a nationally-recognized center of excellence in coordinating research, education and service to improve the local, regional and national response to potential acts of terrorism, natural disasters and infectious diseases. 

By defining competencies, disseminating best practices and offering virtual drills and exercises, communities will be strengthened as their health care workers and administration are prepared to appropriately assess and respond to a variety of public health hazards.

Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
School of Public Health and Information Sciences
485 E. Gray St
Louisville, KY  40202
502 852-3299 (Office)
502 852-3291 (Fax)
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The Center for Integrated Environmental Health Sciences (CIEHS) at the University of Louisville is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Core Center that provides infrastructure support for other environmental health science researchers, develops and mentors junior faculty, assists investigators in translating their basic science research into human studies, and supports a Community Engagement Core that provides outreach and environmental health education to youth groups and healthcare providers in the Louisville region and western Kentucky.

Center for Integrated Environmental Health Sciences 
University of Louisville 
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Phone: (502) 852-5347

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The Cardiovascular Innovation Institute (CII) is an internationally established research enterprise created to understand the mechanisms of heart, peripheral vascular and microcirculatory disease. It is a collaboration between the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare. The mission of the CII is to improve lives through world-class cardiovascular research, scientific discovery, and new enterprise creation.

Cardiovascular Innovation Institute (CII)
302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd.
Louisville, KY 40202
502-852-1381

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The Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky (CIK) was established in 2015 with funding from KentuckyOne Health. CIK obtained recognition from the Board of Trustees in January 2016. The institute began to build its infrastructure almost immediately and initiated several projects. Through the work of the CIK executive committee, we have established guiding principles, goals and organizational structure that is strongly aligned with CIK’s mission of informing policy and practice that will improve the health of populations in Kentucky and beyond by facilitating and supporting transdisciplinary collaborations for research and data analytics.

Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky (CIK)
School of Public Health & Information Sciences
University of Louisville
485 E. Gray Street
Louisville, KY 40202
502-852-xxxxd

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The Conn Center provides leadership, research, support and policy development in renewable energy; advances the goal of renewable energy; and promotes technologies, practices, and programs that increase efficiency for energy utilization in homes, businesses and public buildings.

Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research
Ernst Hall Room 102A
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: 502-852-8597
Fax: 502-852-8619
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The Center for Health Hazards Preparedness is a nationally-recognized center of excellence in coordinating research, education and service to improve the local, regional and national response to potential acts of terrorism, natural disasters and infectious diseases. 

By defining competencies, disseminating best practices and offering virtual drills and exercises, communities will be strengthened as their health care workers and administration are prepared to appropriately assess and respond to a variety of public health hazards.

Health Science Campus Location
Clinical Translational Research Building (CTR)

505 South Hancock Street, Sixth Floor
Louisville, KY 40202
Main Office Number: 502-852-1339
Fax Number: 502-852-5468
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Shelby Campus Location
Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL)

950 North Hurstbourne Parkway
Louisville, KY 40222
Main Office Number: 502-852-1339
Fax Number: 502-852-1393
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The UofL and its Health Partners serve a highly diverse patient population, including many underrepresented and medical underserved groups. Our overall goals are to develop a collaborative clinical and translational research infrastructure across Kentucky and with partnering IDeA CTRs (Clinical and Translational Resources) and CTSAs (Clinical and Translational Science Awards) that will positively impact the health outcomes; and to develop an interactive professional development program that will create a pipeline for the next generation of clinical and translational investigators. This us achieved these goals through four aims:

  1. Expand and fully integrate the “academic home” for clinical and translational research (CTR).
  2. Create a multidisciplinary program in research training, education and career development, including utilizing advanced degrees to train the next generation of clinical and translational investigators.
  3. Develop Key Component Activities (KCA) that provide the necessary clinical research resources and translational technologies to create novel, clinical and translational research.
  4. Support community and academic scientists/educators to fully engage with the unique and highly diverse population of Kentucky in research, health care and medical advances to reduce chronic diseases and improve the overall health/well being of Kentuckians.
Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
505 S. Hancock Street, CTR 503
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: 502 852-6128
Fax: 502 852-8927

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The Envirome Institue. where health research meets the environment. The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute’s research unites a multidisciplinary group to turn scientific discovery into actionable knowledge that can help us to build healthier cities.

Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute
302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd.
Louisville, KY 40202
502-852-5724

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The overriding goal of the center has been to develop a self-sustaining collaborative research enterprise in electrooptics and nanotechnology, which has and is expected to continue to:

  • Enhance the Prestige and Visibility of UofL Research
  • Create New Knowledge
  • Increase the Number, Amount and Scope of Research Contracts and Grants
  • Develop Critical Infrastructure for Advanced Research
  • Expand and Enhance Student Educational Experiences
  • Perform Educational Outreach and Service for the Public, Industry and the State 

Electro-Optics Research Institute and Nanotechnology Center
Shumaker Research Building, Rm. 245,
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: (502) 852-7077
Fax: (502) 852-8128

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INMT's emphasis is on use of adult stem cells from bone marrow and manipulation of immune system cells to treat a variety of human diseases. We are making breakthrough discoveries in basic research and translating those discoveries to the clinic.

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The mission of the Institute of Molecular Cardiology is to coordinate the cardiovascular research program at the U of L School of Medicine in order to

  1. facilitate collaboration and synergy among investigators,
  2. utilize our cardiovascular resources optimally and efficiently,
  3. strengthen, expand, and integrate basic and clinical research programs,
  4. facilitate rapid translation from bench to bedside, and
  5. provide institutional support to investigators engaged in cardiovascular research.

Institute for Molecular Cardiology
550 South Jackson Street
3rd Floor
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Phone: 502-852-5241
Fax: 502-852-6233

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The mission of the KRSIRC is to develop successful spinal cord repair strategies in the laboratory that can be taken to the clinic in a timely and responsible fashion. The Center's growth has been made possible by funding and excellent cooperation between the State of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Norton Healthcare, and a recent $5.5 million grant from NIH. KSCIRC is in a unique position to conduct research that, through our close association with our clinical colleagues in the Department of Neurological Surgery, we expect will ultimately lead to effective treatments for spinal cord injury. This goal will be facilitated by our plan to double the size and scientific impact of the Center over the next five years.

Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
511 South Floyd St., Room 616
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: 502-852-0327
Fax: 502-852-5148

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LoDI is a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to improving the practice of logistics. Several forces have converged in recent years to offer new challenges to the logistics research community, including the rise of e-commerce, innovations in robotics, advances in sensors and the Internet of Things, new crowdsourcing business models (Uber, Lyft), and a serious shortage of skilled labor. LoDI is a university-wide, multi-disciplinary research institute dedicated to finding solutions to these and other challenging problems in the field.

Logistics and Distribution Institute
J.B. Speed School of Engineering
132 Eastern Pkwy
Louisville, KY 40292
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The Price Institute of Surgical Research was founded in 1957 by John W. Price Jr., MD. The Institute strives to enhance patient care through advances in surgical techniques and technology and through basic and clinical research.

Price Institute of Surgical Research
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40202

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The University of Louisville Trager Institute (formerly the Institute for Sustainable Health & Optimal Aging) is driven by our mission of innovating the aging experience for individuals, community, and industry through leading-edge clinical practice, collaborative research, and inter-professional education. We are dedicated to bringing about a new vision of aging where individuals and society are able to approach aging as an opportunity.

Trager Institute
300 East Market Street, Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502)-852-5629

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