Moments That Defined Us As we look to 2024, we’ve positioned the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to become the core of our evolving academic learning health system—look back at what we've accomplished this year.

Explore our Research

Medical research is much more than discovery. It is hope. It is a cure. It is the advances that we make here that will benefit our lives and those of generations to come.

As the academic core of our recently expanded health system, Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s 2,000+ researchers are leading the way in accelerating vital research.

Keeping Youth Athletes Safe

Joel Stitzel, PhD, and Jillian Urban, PhD, are pioneering research that improves the safety of youth football on and off the field.

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Zombies: Are They Already in Your Head?

Miranda Orr, PhD, is examining the role of senescent “zombie” cells in brain disease and how they impact Alzheimer’s Disease research.

RegeneratOR Test Bed Provides Access to Emerging Technology

Leaders in regenerative medicine provide free space and a state-of-the-art facility for companies to advance discoveries.

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Community Partnership to Improve Cancer Care

A $25 million grant helps researchers bring cancer clinical trials and care delivery studies to people in their communities.

Scientists and Students Study the Risks of Space Travel

Researchers at the Jeffrey Willey Lab are working with NASA to utilize new tactics, approaches and exploration quests to keep astronauts safe and healthy throughout their missions.

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Increasing Health Equity in Alzheimer's Disease Research

MACHE leads community-engaged research efforts for a $46 million grant aimed at representing those of African ancestry and Hispanic/Latinx individuals in Alzheimer’s genetic studies.

ENVISION

The Campaign to Accelerate Discovery, Hope and Health

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Explore our culture through this year's top stories about our education.

In our medical training programs, a patient-centered perspective is at the heart of the curriculum. Our students obtain in-depth and valuable clinical experience that can only be found through an academic learning health system.

Closing the Gap: Women in Orthopaedics

Alexis Restrepo, a fourth-year medical student, was empowered to pursue orthopaedics and now wants to inspire other Spanish-speaking medical students to pursue a surgical specialty.

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Summer in the City: Students Get Innovative Experiences

The School of Medicine provides STEM and health care education programs for middle and high school-aged children, as well as internship opportunities for future researchers.

Home Sweet Home

How Learning Communities – also known as Houses – provide support for medical students.

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Graduate School Alumni Making a Difference

From discovering the benefits to melatonin, to working at the NIH on ways to solve the mysteries of the brain and nervous system – learn how our alumni have improved health.

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Training the Next Generation of Scientists

Educating students and trainees on ways to improve patients' lives through regenerative medicine.

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Inspiring the Next Generation of Health Care Workers

Medical school students work with local high school students to teach them about various careers in health care.

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Educating tomorrow’s health care leaders starts with our award-winning faculty.

Our educational philosophy comes to fruition through our educators. Learn about the national and international recognitions earned by our faculty, staff and students.