Growth & Impact in Regenerative Medicine
Tracking the rapid rise of our community, funding, innovation, and scholarly output.
With support from the Biosciences Initiative, Regenerative Medicine at the University of Michigan launched a campus-wide effort in 2019 to connect researchers across colleges and schools. Since then, our community has expanded, funding has grown, and discoveries have moved from ideas to inventions, startups, and impact.
Growth in Financial Support
Growth in funding is enabling U-M researchers to pursue bold ideas, form larger research teams, and translate discoveries more rapidly. These resources strengthen our collaborative foundation and help position us as leaders in emerging areas of regeneration, repair, and restoration.
- 2019
- 2023
Growth in Innovation
As our research community has grown, so has our pipeline of inventions and startups. Faculty and trainees are developing tools, therapeutics, and technologies that advance regenerative science and improve patient care. Patents over 5 years from our Community of Scholars, self-identified as being in the RM space.
- 2014 - 2019
- 2020 - 2025
Growth in Collaboration
Regenerative medicine thrives on collaboration. Our Community of Scholars brings together faculty, trainees, and staff from Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine, Pharmacy, and beyond to form cross-disciplinary teams. The time-lapse below visualizes how this network has grown denser, more connected, and more interdisciplinary since 2018.
The figures above illustrate the growing collaboration of the Community of Scholars from 2018 to 2023, shown through the co-authorship of our members. In the Vos Viewer Map, each node represents a member, and the weight of the lines emphasizes the association strength with the other authors (thicker lines show stronger and repeated collaborations).
The increase in connections and the network overall highlights the Regenerative Medicine Bioscience Initiative’s role in catalyzing the cross-departmental interactions and collaboration among members.