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Award
files for 2006-2008 was obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)
from the National Institutes of Health at
http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/BrowseOrgs.cfm?NameBegins=A&InstFilter=MS.
The total awarded to each Medical School is the sum of (a) the SCHOOLS
OF MEDICINE and (b) the OVERALL MEDICAL component listed in the NIH
tables. Please report any discrepancies of the Blue Ridge Institute files and
the NIH files to Webmaster@brimr.org.
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 ($111 million in NIH funding in 2008), Brigham and Women's
($253 million), Boston Children's ($95 million), Dana-Farber ($140 million), and
Massachusetts General Hospital ($300 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.
For example, one medical school (Mayo Clinic) has more than $165 million
in NIH support but does not allocate this to any department. The NIH
combines diagnostic and therapeutic radiology
(Radiation-Diagnostic/Oncology) into a single category,
whereas these entities may represent separate departments. Moreover, a combined
department (e.g., Department of Physiology and Pharmacology) will appear
in only one category and skew the rankings for that department. If a
university has NIH funded Departments of Anatomy in the Schools of
Medicine, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine, the value included in the
current tables will reflect the total university allocation and not just that of
the School of Medicine.
The ≈ $11 billion awarded to medical schools
accounts for nearly half of the $23 billion awarded in extramural NIH
funding. However, data for R and D contracts for 2008, which
historically account for about 10% of NIH extramural funding, are not
yet available. Of the ≈ $2 billion in R and
D contracts, less than $500 million has been awarded to Schools of
Medicine.
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