Top Universities
Every university on this list represents the highest tier of U.S. biomedical research. We ranked 243 research universities across the United States on their ability to translate scientific discovery into real-world healthcare solutions, evaluated on 25 indicators across three core domains.
Boston College
Boston College ranks 221st among 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the university places below the midpoint across all three domains, with Research Capabilities and Market Translation at comparable levels and Entrepreneurial Readiness lower still.
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Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton University (SUNY) ranks 222nd among universities in the Cure Innovation Index and is located in Binghamton, New York. Its profile across the three domains is uneven: research capabilities and entrepreneurial readiness fall near the lower end of ranked universities, while market translation represents a relative strength at roughly the midpoint of the field.
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Marshall University
Marshall University ranks 223rd among universities in the Cure Innovation Index, located in Huntington, West Virginia. Research capabilities and market translation performance fall in the lower tier among ranked universities, while entrepreneurial readiness represents the institution's relative strength.
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Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport ranks 224th among universities in the Cure Innovation Index, situated in Shreveport, Louisiana. Research Capabilities is the institution's relative strength, ranking 139th, in contrast to its positions in Market Translation and Entrepreneurial Readiness, which fall near the lower range of the university cohort.
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University of California, Merced
The University of California, Merced ranks 225th among 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index. Established in 2005, it is the newest campus of the University of California system and is located in Merced, California.
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Hunter College (CUNY)
Hunter College (CUNY) ranks 226th among 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index, located in New York, New York. Its performance across Research Capabilities, Market Translation, and Entrepreneurial Readiness places it in the lower tier of the university cohort, with an overall profile that is balanced between discovery and translation.
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Portland State University
Portland State University ranks 227th among universities in the Cure Innovation Index and is based in Portland, Oregon. Across Research Capabilities, Market Translation, and Entrepreneurial Readiness, the university performs in the lower tier of the index; Market Translation is where it shows the most relative strength.
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Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University ranks 228th among 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index, with its main campus in Houghton, Michigan. Across the three domains, Market Translation and Entrepreneurial Readiness represent its relative strengths, each ranking ahead of its Research Capabilities standing.
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Texas State University
Texas State University ranks 229th among 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index. Located in San Marcos, Texas, between Austin and San Antonio, this public university's research profile sits toward the lower end of the field in both Research Capabilities and Market Translation; it fares better in Entrepreneurial Readiness, where it ranks 191st.
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Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University ranks 230th among the 243 universities in the Cure Innovation Index, located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Its standing across Research Capabilities, Market Translation, and Entrepreneurial Readiness places it toward the lower end of the university rankings in each domain, with Entrepreneurial Readiness as its relative strength.
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Cure Innovation Index Methodology
From a pool of more than 6,000 institutions, the top 303 were ranked using two dozen indicators — from scientific foundation and lab infrastructure to patents, products, and partnerships — drawn from more than a dozen federal and commercial databases, an original audit of all institutions, and surveys of more than 3,300+ scientists, industry leaders, and biomedical experts.
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Innovation isn't a single moment — it's an entire ecosystem. The Index evaluates institutions across two dozen indicators, grouped in three core domains that reveal the full picture of what it takes to turn groundbreaking science into real-world impact.
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