Research
With expenditures in excess of $1 billion, research is central to U-M’s mission and permeates all 19 schools and colleges. U-M is a strong advocate of promoting collaboration and interdisciplinary research initiatives that involve faculty and students from across campus.

U-M researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency.
Research Attention
Below are 25 research outputs that have received attention in the news, social media and other digital sources in the past week ranging from “mainstream” sources to citations. This work from University of Michigan researchers represents a tiny fraction of the more than 263,000 research outputs produced by our academic community.
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Climate change and the aridification of North America
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Out-Of-Pocket Spending For Maternity Care Among Women With Employer-Based Insurance, 2008–15
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Association between switching of primary outcomes and reported trial findings among randomized drug trials from China
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Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19
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A Dangerous Myth: Does Speaking Imply Breathing?
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Ten-year Trends in Surgical Mortality, Complications, and Failure to Rescue in Medicare Beneficiaries
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Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement
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Donor to recipient transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 by lung transplantation despite negative donor upper respiratory tract testing
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Flawed Self-Assessment
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Classical simulation of quantum many-body systems with a tree tensor network
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The Groundwater of Racial and Ethnic Disparities Research
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An Empirical Antigen Selection Method Identifies Neoantigens That Either Elicit Broad Antitumor T-cell Responses or Drive Tumor Growth
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The development of non-coding RNA ontology
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Neurologic Involvement in Children and Adolescents Hospitalized in the United States for COVID-19 or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
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An artificial intelligence algorithm for prostate cancer diagnosis in whole slide images of core needle biopsies: a blinded clinical validation and deployment study
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment and Dementia Risk in Older Adults
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Targeting transcriptional regulation of SARS-CoV-2 entry factors ACE2 and TMPRSS2
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Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 mutation accumulation within and across infected hosts
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Connectedness to family, school, peers, and community in socially vulnerable adolescents
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Preliminary examination of the efficacy and safety of a standardized chamomile extract for chronic primary insomnia: A randomized placebo-controlled pilot study
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Prevalence of Dementia in the United States: The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study
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Association Between Preadmission Acid Suppressive Medication Exposure and Severity of Illness in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19
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A Unique Cause of Gastric Polyposis
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A Proposed Blueprint for Operative Performance Training, Assessment, and Certification
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Competitive Sports, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, and Big Ten Athletics