Article: Medical College aims to keep rising; Center's 5-year plan would continue research growth despite funds decline

The Medical College of Wisconsin is at a crossroads.

In the last decade, southeastern Wisconsin's biggest academic research center has had one of the fastest-growing research efforts among all U.S. medical schools, bulking up its research spending to about $130 million.

Now, in the process of creating a new strategic plan for the next five years, the Medical College faces this challenge: building on its strong past growth as federal spending on medical research is stagnating and as new federal initiatives encourage more cooperation among disciplines that have potential to help patients sooner than later.

"They've been enormously successful to date with almost no state dollars, but now ...

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