2025 was a year of extraordinary research, growth, and accomplishments for Utah Health University. Despite an increasingly uncertain funding situation, our research community has demonstrated resilience and commitment to purpose. With grant proposals submitted in 2024 and 2025; Record amount of research funding This increase was driven by University Health researchers submitting significantly more proposals for fiscal year 25 than the previous year, underscoring our collective efforts to improve lives in Utah and beyond.
These are just a few of the many achievements achieved over the past year, each reflecting an unwavering dedication, innovation and collaborative spirit.
Health science research increased by 24% in five years, more than doubling since 2014. In 2015, these awards accounted for 68% of the total. Entire university research portfoliototaling $782 million. In health sciences, 755 principal investigators received 1,835 awards.
U of U Health funds efforts to achieve the following goals: reduce childhood obesity In the mountains to the west develop a blood test We can uncover and investigate how environmental factors, such as poor air quality, affect our bodies. Does acupuncture benefit a person’s health? A veteran of the Gulf War who became ill.
Research support is also provided by U of U Health charity partners group It supports innovative, high-risk projects that are not yet eligible for traditional funding sources. last yearthey have funded projects to develop new treatments for adrenal cancer, organoid models of aneurysms, and improved drug delivery methods for ECMO patients.
Securing funding is essential to the University of Utah’s mission of extraordinary social impact. These investments:
- Drive the development of new technologies, tests, and treatments
- Launch a startup company or health program
- Revitalize Utah’s Economy
- Supporting the training of students and young researchers
- prior knowledge
- Communicate policy
- improve health
In 2025, the university’s research attracted widespread media attention in Utah and around the world. The most extensive articles highlight America’s expertise in health and disease.
Analysis of extreme divers off the coast of South Korea reveals genetic differences that may help them withstand the intense physiological stress of freediving, and may ultimately lead to better treatments for blood pressure disorders.
It was covered by 283 news organizations, including washington post, NPR, Huberman Institute, national geographic
Use of the popular anti-diabetic drug and weight loss drug Ozempic is skyrocketing, raising concerns that the drug causes muscle loss. A new study in mice suggests that while changes in muscle mass are smaller than expected, muscles may still become weaker.
It was covered by 91 news organizations, including independent person, daily mail, MSN
A new study shows that weight stigma, rather than weight itself, has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight loss surgery.
It was covered by 137 news organizations, including CNN, scientific american, ABC4
The U.S. Technology Licensing Office guides University of Utah innovators through every step of commercialization, turning pioneering research into real-world impact. Anyone who knows innovation knows this. in Innovation Award 2025TLO recognized significant achievements that shaped the university’s entrepreneurial culture.
The top awards are:
Werm, senior director of basic science and chair of the Division of Oncology at Huntsman Comprehensive Cancer Center, is working to develop innovative models of human breast cancer that have become the standard for studying metastatic behavior and treatment response.
Sandquist, the Samuels professor and chair of the biochemistry department, laid the foundation for studying and defining the structure of one of the HIV proteins, leading to twice-yearly treatments to prevent HIV infection in high-risk individuals.
Jessica Osterhout, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine. Selected as a 2025 Pew Scholar By the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Dr. Tracy Lamb, professor of pathology, founded the University of Utah’s first National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Jefferson Science Fellow.
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