Fourteen cross-disciplinary research institutes and centers report to the OVPR. Institutes provide enhanced interaction to the research program by drawing on faculty expertise from more than one department, school or academic unit. Centers are devoted to a specialized advanced area of research.

As of March 2006, several of OVPR's centers, institutes and groups will be housed in the new Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary facility commemorating the late senator Paul D. Coverdell.  In addition to representatives from colleges, centers, institutes and groups across campus, the building will be home to a $2.3 million bioimaging center and an innovative rodent barrier facility. The Center for Health and Risk Communication, The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD),The Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (BHSI), and The Developmental Biology Group (DBG) are housed in the Coverdell Center.

Below is the complete list of the centers and institutes reporting to the Office of the Vice President for Research:

• Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (BHSI)
• Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS)
• Center for Health and Risk Communication
• Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
• Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC)
• Georgia Sea Grant
• Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR)
• Institute of Bioinformatics
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NanoSEC)
• The Plant Center
• Regenerative Bioscience Center
• Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL)
• University of Georgia Cancer Center
• Willson Center for Humanities and Arts

For more information about OVPR Centers and Institutes click here.