Research Collaboration Index · 2026
North America · Platinum standing
Strongest in Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics, at #1 in the world.
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Collaboration and Funding Blueprint
A decision document for research leadership and partnership offices: the universities to partner with next, the field that justifies each one, and the route that would fund it, read across all 1,195 ranked universities. It cannot move a position: the index is free, public and closed to money.
Featured academics
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Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford and founding principal investigator of PharmGKB, Russ Altman applies AI and informatics to drug action and safety. His PNAS study with UCSF, Berkeley and Mount Sinai colleagues uses functional genomics of OCTN2 variants to build a protein specific predictor for carnitine transporter deficiency.
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