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Award
files was obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool
(RePORT)
from the National Institutes of Health at http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/AggregateData.cfm.
For reasons that are unclear, the Mayo
Clinic is not designated as a School of Medicine and its awards are not
attributed to specific departments. However, BRIMR has included the Mayo
Clinic in the Medical School rankings from data included in the All
Organizations file. This file was also used to
calculate the rankings for all Institutions, Cities, Principal Investigators, and other Health Sciences Schools. Please report any discrepancies
between the Blue Ridge Institute files and
the NIH files to Webmaster@brimr.org. The
Award Data correspond to the US Government fiscal year. Awards and
R&D contracts for 2010
correspond to those granted from 1 October 2009-30 September 2010.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to
summarize accurately department, medical school, and university allocations in
brief tables. Bona fide medical school faculty may have their grants credited to
hospitals thereby leading to an underestimate of medical school funding. Harvard
Medical School, for example, has 17 teaching hospitals. These include Beth
Israel Deaconess ($129 million in NIH funding in 2012), Brigham and Women's
($332 million), Boston Children's ($122 million), Dana-Farber ($124 million), and
Massachusetts General Hospital ($345 million). Including these awards would
increase the rank of Harvard Medical School. In contrast, some medical schools are credited
with grants to non-traditional medical school departments
including biology, chemistry, psychology, and physics.
There are additional considerations. The NIH
combines diagnostic and therapeutic radiology
(Radiation-Diagnostic/Oncology) into a single category,
whereas these entities may represent separate departments. BRIMR
catalogues these under Radiology. Moreover, a combined
department (e.g., Department of Physiology and Pharmacology) will appear
in only one category and skew the rankings for that department. The
NIH files specify a single Principal Investigator (PI) so that a grant to
multiple PI's and co-PIs cannot be credited to multiple departments. Click here
to go to an NIH site for additional information.
The ≈ $11 billion awarded to medical schools
accounts for nearly half of the $23 billion awarded in extramural NIH
funding. However, data for recent R & D contracts, which
historically account for about 10% of NIH extramural funding, does not attribute
awards to specific departments nor to specific Medical Schools. These
awards are not included in our reports from 2012-2012. Of the ≈ $2 billion in R and
D contracts, less than $200 million has been awarded to Schools of
Medicine.
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