The University of Toledo

Research Centers and Institutes

The following list includes those research-oriented centers or institutes that have been reviewed and approved by the UT Research Council or are currently under review.

Name of Center	Director	URL
Center for Drug Design and Development (”CD3”)	Paul Erhardt	http://www.utoledo.edu/pharmacy/centers/CenterForDrug/index.html
Engineering Center for Orthopaedic Research Excellence (E-CORE)	Nabil Ebraheim‚ MD and Vijay K. Goel	http://www.bioe.eng.utoledo.edu/adms_staffs/chair/index.htm
Plant Science Research Center	John Gray	http://www.utoledo.edu/as/psrc/research/research.html
University Transportation Center / Intermodal Transportation Institute	Richard S. Martinko	http://www.utoledo.edu/research/ututc/strategy.html#
Urban Affairs Center (UAC)	Neil Reid	http://uac.utoledo.edu/
Legal Institute of the Great Lakes	Kenneth Kilbert	http://law.utoledo.edu/ligl/index.htm
Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research (CeDER)	Sonia M. Najjar	http://hsc.utoledo.edu/depts/physpharm/ceder/index.html
Center for Successful Aging	Barbara Kopp Miller	http://hsc.toledo.edu/depts/csa
The Asian Studies Institute	Gene Chang	http://www.utoledo.edu/as/ids/asian/asian.html
UT Polymer Institute	Saleh A. Jabarin	http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/polymer
Geographic Information Science and Applied Geographics (GISAG) Lab	Kevin Czajkowski	http://www.gis.utoledo.edu/
Precison Micro-Machining Center	Ioan Marinescu	http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/pmmc
Institute for Sustainable Engineering Materials	Maria Coleman	http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/isem/
Lake Erie Center	Carol A. Stepien	http://www.utoledo.edu/as/lec
Ritter Astrophysical Research Center/Ritter Observatory	Karen S. Bjorkman	http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~wwwphys/ritter/ritter.html
Small Turbine Institute	Abdollah A. Afjeh	http://www.utoledo.edu/eng/mime/research/sti
International Business Institute	Tom Sharkey	http://www.utoledo.edu/business/IBI/

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