We are a global research community collaborating across our campuses and around the world. We’re probing frontiers across the physical, natural, and social sciences and tackling data to shape public policy and understand how society can use technological advances to improve our world.

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Research for the Common Good

As people for others, our students and faculty seek the truth to solve problems for the common good. From bench to bedside and practice to policy, we are innovators who are incubating ideas and informing policy to improve our communities.

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Fighting MS

Multiple sclerosis affects nearly 3 million people around the world with no cure in sight. But new research from Jeffrey Huang could revolutionize the treatment for patients with late-stage multiple sclerosis and slow the progression of the disease.

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Interdisciplinary Research

At Georgetown, we pride ourselves on the high-quality research and collaboration our faculty engage in across disciplines, leveraging different fields of study to yield new insights on the most pressing, complex issues of our time.

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Advancing Biomedical and Health Sciences

At the Georgetown University Medical Center, biomedical and health science researchers support a broad continuum of research, from basic science to population studies. The Medical Center fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and advances knowledge to improve human health while training the next generation of researchers.

Research Around the World

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This Is the Best Country To Be a Woman, New Report Finds

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DC Food Delivery Drivers Face Safety Risks, Unpredictable Wages, New Report Finds

A new report from a Georgetown researcher reveals the invisible struggles — including safety and health risks, unpredictable wages and unpaid work — that many instant food delivery drivers face…

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Georgetown and UNHCR Collaborate on Big Data and Forced Displacement Project

In a new partnership, Georgetown and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are blending traditional and new forms of data to understand and predict movements of forcibly displaced populations.

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Become a Researcher

Our students have access to state-of-the-art research facilities and world-class faculty who are eager to train and mentor the next generation of scholars. Through Georgetown’s research fellowships, centers and grants, students can start to explore their own scholarly interests and discover new paths to dig deeper into their fields.

Student Researchers

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“All of these contributions to the Rhodes community will make me more empathetic and aware of my place in the world: enacting technology policies at the NGO and company levels in China that are more informed and compassionate. In both China and Rhodes, I see not just their flaws but also room for change. Through belonging to these institutions, I will help refine them for those after me.”

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“When you’re a practicing physician, it’s wonderful because you get to make such a big difference in your patients’ lives, but you’re limited to the number of patients that you see. As a scientist, you can hopefully make advances in the understanding of diseases, and that helps way more people than you would be able to help as a practicing physician.”

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“Working on the ground in the post-apartheid state, I was able to see how interdisciplinary development mechanisms counteracted the deficit. I observed how this community-based organization equipped individuals with professional skills – providing barista training or interview preparation directly contributed to hundreds of new jobs”

Quick Links

Research news.

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Can AI Help Combat Climate Change?

Joanna Lewis, director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, dives into how AI is being leveraged to improve climate research.

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How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse According to An Emergency Management Professor

Georgetown professor elected to national academy of medicine for impactful primary care research, what a greek immigrant has discovered from mapping the frontlines of american democracy.

Microsoft Research: Advancing science and technology to benefit humanity

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BiomedParse: A foundation model for smarter, all-in-one biomedical image analysis

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AI agents — what they are, and how they’ll change the way we work  

November 19, 2024

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Ideas: The journey to DNA data storage  

November 19, 2024 | Karin Strauss, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith, Sergey Yekhanin

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Introducing Yasuyuki Matsushita: Tackling societal challenges with AI at Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo   

November 18, 2024

Explore Microsoft Research Forum

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Microsoft Research Forum  

Research Forum | Episode 4 Keynote | Jianfeng Gao

Keynote: Phi-3-Vision: A highly capable and “small” language vision model Globally Equitable AI  

Research Forum | Episode 4 Panel | John Langford, Hoifung Poon, Katja Hofmann, Jianwei Yang

Panel Discussion: Beyond Language: The future of multimodal models in healthcare, gaming, and AI  

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Research Forum Brief | September 2024  

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Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Research Sciences Intern  

Location : Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Senior Data Scientist – Microsoft Teams Data Science team  

Principal data scientist – metrics & evaluation team  , principal data scientist – microsoft power platform  , senior data science manager – cloud supply chain (cscp)  , data & applied scientist ii – customer success engineering team  .

Location : Dublin, Ireland

Senior Research Engineer – MSR AI for Science  

Locations : Cambridge, UK; Germany; Schiphol, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Principal Machine Learning Research Engineer – Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team  

Location : Cambridge, UK

Cambridge Research Intern – Generative Models for Video Games  

Cambridge machine intelligence intern  , barcelona research intern – gray systems lab  .

Location : Barcelona, Spain

Security Researcher II – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint  

Location : Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel

Senior Security Researcher – Microsoft Security Exposure Management  

Location : Israel

Senior Research Scientist – AI for Good Lab  

Location : Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Principal Research Scientist – AI for Good Lab  

Senior security researcher – microsoft defender for cloud apps and identity  , data science internship opportunities  , senior data scientist – microsoft advertising market sciences team  .

Location : Redmond, WA, US

Research Intern – AI Mediated Sensemaking – Human-Centered AI Experiences (HCAIX)  

Research intern – product strategy intern – microsoft research  , research intern – bioinformatics  .

Locations : Cambridge, MA, US; Redmond, WA, US

Senior Research Scientist – Azure RAI  

Locations : Redmond, WA, US; Remote (within US)

Research Intern – AI Frontiers – Agentic AI Models & Synthetic Data Generation  

Locations : New York, NY, US; Redmond, WA, US

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Upcoming: December 10, 2024 – December 15, 2024

Vancouver, BC, Canada

News & awards

Microsoft Source  |  Nov 19, 2024

AFMR was recognized in the Microsoft Annual Report 2024  

Microsoft  |  Nov 1, 2024

Why Can’t I Vote Online?  

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Ariel Gomez Diaz named one of the Photonics100 for 2025  

Electro Optics  |  Oct 28, 2024

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