DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Researchdrexel researchers work across disciplines to increase the world's store of knowledge and translate that new knowledge into solutions with tremendous positive impact on society. Typically, the university receives about $110 million per year in research expenditures. The university is committed to using its research and technological expertise to become an even more powerful economic engine for greater philadelphia, helping to create new high-tech businesses and jobs. Drexel is creating an ecosystem of innovation in and around university city, while delivering on its public purpose as an anchor institution for philadelphia. This ecosystem will ultimately benefit students, through co-ops and career opportunities; faculty, through collaborative research and training; and the surrounding community, through the creation of pipelines to employment.this commitment is at the heart of schuylkill yards, a $3.5 billion mixed-use project with development partner brandywine realty trust on university real estate adjacent to philadelphia's amtrak 30th street station. In partnership with wexford science and technology, drexel is also extending ucity square, a multi-billion-dollar development, through a facility that houses k-8 public schools and an academic building that relocated the college of medicine and college of nursing and health professions to the university city campus.most recently, spark therapeutics broke ground on a $575 million state-of-the-art gene therapy innovation center on drexel's campus. Through a partnership with gattuso development partners, the campus will also boast what is expected to become the city's largest life sciences facility.during fy24, drexel university conducted research on the following research grants:federally sponsored research - 923 grantsstate of pennsylvania sponsored research - 93 grantscity of philadelphia contracts - 22 grantsprivate foundation sponsored research - 323 grantsindustry sponsored research - 92 grants