Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute is home to all laboratory-based, translational and clinical research at the Cleveland Clinic.

The Institute comprises 11 Departments: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics (including the Section of Virology), Neurosciences, Pathobiology, Quantitative Health Sciences, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

More than 1,300 work at the Institute, including about 200 Principal Investigators who have laboratory space. Its Staff members also participate in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and the Molecular Medicine PhD Program.

In 2008, the Institute had a total research budget of $258 million (including $75 million from the National Institutes of Health). More than 260 Postdoctoral Fellows and 170 Graduate Students continued their professional development. Research by the Staff appeared in nearly 1,300 journal manuscripts, books or book chapters.

The Institute's Chair is Paul E. DiCorleto, PhD, who was named to the position in 2002. He is the fifth Chair since the Institute was founded in 1945.

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