Research

Our world-renowned expertise in life sciences is rooted in collaboration. Our “team science” approach means we seek out connections - with fellow researchers worldwide and with foundation, corporate, and agency partners - that make our science stronger.

These collaborations transform basic research into clinical practice through translational medicine in order to deliver One Health solutions - vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tools - that benefit animals, people, and the planet.

World-Renowned Research

Animal Health
Biological Systems
Cancer
Environmental Health
Imaging and Diagnostics
Infectious Disease
Orthopedics
Reproduction
Ranked 1st veterinary school in the nation for research funding from the National Institutes of Health (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research)
$75.2 million awarded for research in 2025
$99.7 million in research expenditures in 2025

Where our great minds gather

Centers and institutes represent research areas that our scientists can rally around, bringing together their diverse skillsets and perspectives to solve pressing global issues.

Explore Centers and Institutes

Foundational research is hard. Scientists are true pioneers of the 21st century. We stand at the horizon of discovery with no manual or textbook to reference when generating new ideas and how to test them. We simply climb on the shoulders of scientists who pushed forward the scientific frontier before us. Up to 90% of our experiments fail. But that makes that one experiment in ten that reveals something new all the more exciting and rewarding.

Dr. Mark Zabel, Associate Dean for Research

Student research opportunities

The road to research begins here. Shape and share your scientific skillset through faculty mentorship and community connections.

Research News

More Research Stories

Nature: Funding cuts could put research into emerging threats to lung health at risk

“This could not only influence downwind communities, but could also affect firefighters’ abilities to fight fire and stay safe,” says Luke Montrose.

Research Day 2026 saw record attendance, new awards, and plenty of innovative spirit

An opportunity for trainees at all levels to showcase their work, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ 27th annual celebration of research gave undergrad and grad students, residents, postbacs, and postdocs experience presenting to the local scientific community.

CSU, UAF Receive USDA NIFA Grant for Livestock Education

A $250,000 USDA NIFA grant is helping CSU and UAF expand training to strengthen the rural food animal veterinary workforce.

The Colorado Sun: Can you fight cancer with cancer? A CSU scientist is trying to find out.

MIP professor Raymond Goodrich has developed a cancer immunotherapy that uses a patient’s own tumor cells to train the immune system

A discovery from the heart: Parasitic worms uncovered in native Colorado fish

MIP Associate Professor Paula Schaffer, in a cross-campus collaboration with Dana Winkelman in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, discovered a parasitic worm in the hearts of two native Colorado fish.

A 3.66-million-year-old Cinderella story

Medical school professor returns from excavation work at two paleoanthropological UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa with fresh discoveries and renewed determination to identify mysterious footprints created by an upright-walking individual around 3.66 million years ago.