The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine is consistently ranked in the top ten nationally in NIH funding per faculty member, and this institutional research strength is particularly strong in areas critical to the future of neurosurgery.
Departmental research interests are broad and include movement disorders, epilepsy treatments, hearing impairment, speech disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and memory, biomechanics of the spine and tumors.
Prominent laboratories and research initiatives
The Human Brain Research Laboratory
The overall aim of research in the HBRL is to gain new knowledge on the neural mechanisms in the human brain underlying sensory, perceptual and cognitive processes related to hearing, speech, language and emotional behavior.
Petkov Laboratory
Our group is pursuing evolutionary relationships in brain function. We are guided by the notion that information on how the human brain changed during its evolutionary history will be indispensable for advancing treatments for cognitive and communication disorders. This includes addressing forms of aphasia, amnesia, agnosia and language disorders.