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Award
files for 2006-2009 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.
The information on Medical Schools was obtained from the Medical Schools
only file. For reasons that are unclear, this file does not contain Mayo
Clinic Medical School data, and the overall award to Mayo was obtained
from the All Organizations file. The All Organizations file was used to
calculate the rankings for all Institutions, Cities, States, Countries, 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 for 2009
correspond to those granted from 1 October 2008-30 September 2009.
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 ($127 million in NIH funding in 2009), Brigham and Women's
($269 million), Boston Children's ($96 million), Dana-Farber ($127 million), and
Massachusetts General Hospital ($324 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 $175 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.
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 2009, 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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