.National Institutes of Health Funding to US Medical Schools in 2006 

For data on 2007 awards, click here. 

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to summarize accurately department, medical school, and university allocations in brief tables. For example, one medical school (Mayo Clinic) has more than $170 million in NIH support but does not allocate this to any department. The NIH combines radiation and 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.

There are additional considerations. Bona fide medical school faculty may have their grants credited to hospitals or research institutes leading to an underestimate of funding to medical school faculty. In contrast, some medical schools are credited  with grants to non-traditional medical school departments including  biology, chemistry, psychology, and physics. 

The ≈ $11 billion awarded to medical schools accounts for nearly half of the $23 billion awarded in extramural NIH funding. 

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