The mission of the CWRU/UHC medical complex is the integration of basic and clinical research programs to move potential therapies from the bench to the bedside as quickly as possible.

The School of Medicine has consistently been in the top 20 institutions in the nation as judged by funding from the National Institutes of Health. It has also produced 8 Nobel Laureates.

The Department of Urology has laboratory space both in the BRB (The James and Eilleen Dicke Research Laboratory) and at the Cleveland VAMC.

The James and Eilleen Dicke Research Laboratory is equipped to perform most of the techniques commonly used in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry.

In conjunction with the CWRU/Ireland Cancer Center, the School of Medicine runs several state of the art core facilities including, real-time PCR, microarray analysis and computer integrated imaging.

A majority of the faculty within the department have active basic and/or clinical research programs. Among the areas currently being investigated by departmental faculty are:

• prostate cancer
• prostatitis,
• urolithiasis,
• pediatric urology,
• male sexual dysfunction,
• female urology,
• neurourology
• and trauma.