Research is a key part of the LECOM mission to prepare well qualified health care professionals. To meet the educational goals of research, the College provides laboratory space and encourages research by faculty members and students.

The LECOM Research Collective is an organization within the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pennsylvania. The LRC consists of 8 discreet laboratories with varied disciplinary focuses that represent the scientific and scholarly interests of the school, and endeavors to be on the forefront of osteopathic biomedical research. The navigation links above will take you to each lab's website, tailored to its individual scope, findings, and mission.

This website has been created to act as a resource of the LRC labs' findings--one that is accessible to those interested parties both within and outside of the biomedical research community. The combination of artistic design and hard science of the LRC sites within represents an expression of our philosophy of the fusion of form and function; a philosophy intended, in many ways, to mirror the inherent art and science of osteopathic medicine itself.