Under the leadership of a Division Director, the Division comprises seven departments. Each department operates as an independent unit, with its own faculty, chairperson, teaching responsibilities and budget. A second major responsibility of the Division is that of conducting research.
Biomedical research is essential to the future of medicine.
Detailed scientific investigation advances understanding of life processes through careful and patient analysis and intuitive, creative leaps. In the Rootstown laboratories, scientists are investigating certain mechanisms underlying the development of cancer, enzyme functions in the liver, obesity, vision loss, drug effects on the brain, infectious disease, heart disease, genetic defect, and learning and memory. The active milieu of teaching and research has led to the establishment of a graduate program. The success of this program has resulted from the strong interaction between faculty at the College of Medicine and at the three consortium universities.