UAB seeks to empower research excellence, impact, scholarship, and innovation that drive knowledge and job creation focused on increasing our positive impact and improving society. Research expenditures is one way in which we will measure our growth, with a guiding metric being to increase research expenditures from $713 million in FY 22 to $1 billion.

To accomplish our research growth goal and the related impact on people’s lives, we partnered with Huron Consulting Group and Urban Impact Advisors, who evaluated UAB’s research infrastructure and provided recommendations to ensure scalability that aligns with the research goal. In partnership with our research leadership team, Huron and Urban Impact Advisors reviewed and evaluated our existing portfolio, assessed the current landscape to identify growth areas, analyzed our capacity (people, process, space, and technology), and provided priority recommendations in a strategic plan that, upon implementation will help us achieve our goal.