Emory is one of eight members of the Georgia Research Alliance, a national model of partnership between state government, industry, and research universities.
The Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance links Emory with the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse School of Medicine in an NIH-sponsored alliance aimed at accelerating clinical and translational education, research, and community engagement to impact health in Georgia and beyond.
Emory’s work treating Ebola patients resulted in best practices for health providers treating those with highly contagious diseases. Emory is one of three medical centers that make up the National Ebola Treatment and Education Center, which helps share those findings.
Emory and Georgia Tech share the #2 ranked Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
A partnership with the University of Georgia includes an influenza research center.
The Atlanta Pediatric Research Alliance, a partnership with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech includes 13 translational pediatric research centers – most located at Emory. The Marcus Autism Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, led by Emory School of Medicine faculty, is an NIH Autism Center of Excellence.
Emory is adjacent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is a long-time partner in global and national prevention and research initiatives. Emory medical faculty are research collaborators with CDC scientists and serve on CDC-led advisory committees. Former longtime CDC leaders have joined Emory in key leadership positions in medicine and public health. Emory has received more than $180 million in CDC research funding over the past 10 years for infectious disease and prevention research. Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, which successfully treated four patients with Ebola virus disease in 2014, was built in 2003 in collaboration with CDC to treat CDC personnel infected in the field.