Research Careers at Ohio State

New benefit for medical center employees

If you’re still paying for student loans, we’re offering a new benefit to help medical center employees get the most out of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Through this service, employees receive one-on-one financial counseling and a streamlined process to achieve student loan forgiveness. Faculty and staff are eligible to enroll on their hire date, or at any point while they’re employed full-time at the medical center.

Nationally recognized

• One of only 51 members of a National Institutes of Health consortium that speeds the translation of scientific discovery into better patient care.
• One of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States; the NCI rated our center “exceptional” – the NCI’s highest ranking.
• More than 2,000 active research studies and clinical trials in virtually every medical specialty.
• 11 faculty members currently elected to the National Academy of Medicine and one to the National Academy of Sciences.
• The 2023 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research Rankings, a compilation of NIH funding rankings for U.S. medical schools, placed five of our programs in the top 20 nationwide.

Dedicated research space

The academic medical center has more than 20 research centers and institutes, along with 25 core research laboratories that promote collaboration among experts from virtually all departments, divisions and branch campuses of The Ohio State University. Dedicated research space allows members of our faculty to discover innovative, personalized treatments for the benefit of our patients and others around the world.

• We have research laboratories dedicated to experimental cancer therapeutics, heart and lung disease, neurobiology of disease, imaging, microbial pathogenesis, pharmacogenomics, bioinformatics, diabetes, structural biology and tissue engineering.
• Our core labs are for shared use in genomics, cytogenetics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, BSL-3/viral vector, flow cytometry, histology, tissue engineering, X-ray crystallography, cryogen storage, and light and electron microscopy.

Be a part of something bigger

We are proud to be part of one of America’s largest and most comprehensive universities. On the university’s main Columbus campus, more than 65,000 students are able to choose from 18 colleges and more than 250 majors.

The university’s research innovations have attained world-class status, particularly in critical areas such as global climate change, cancer, infectious disease, neurosciences, advanced materials and ag-bio products that feed and fuel the world.