Johns Hopkins University led all universities in NIH Funding for fiscal year 2021, with more than ... [+]
Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. institutions in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for federal fiscal year 2021, with more than $820 million in awards, $824,856,274 to be exact. The rest of the top ten institutions were:
- New York University School of Medicine ($809,311,644),
- Duke University ($731,237,450),
- University of California, San Francisco ($709,018,244),
- Leidos Biomedical Research, which partners with the National Cancer Institute to operate the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, ($653,182,427),
- University of Pennsylvania ($641,789,096),
- Washington University, St. Louis ($623,444,653),
- Stanford University ($611,354,637),
- University of Michigan ($609,038,367) and
- Massachusetts General Hospital ($600,667,106).
A total of 16 institutions brought in at least $500 million in NIH funding last year, and 35 accumulated awards in excess of $250 million. The amounts include grants for research, teaching and clinical projects.
The numbers were compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR), under the direction of Robert Roskoski Jr., a retired professor of biochemistry.
BRIMR has reported on annual NIH awards since 2006. It uses data obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool from the National Institutes of Health.
In addition to institution-wide data, BRIMR breaks out the awards by the major units and departments typically found in most academic health centers. Awards by those various departments and schools can be found here. Here are the top 10 professional schools in five major categories.
Schools of Medicine
New York University $809,281,610
University of California, San Francisco $629,550,692
Duke University $608,453,942
Washington University, St. Louis $576,556,160
Johns Hopkins University $566,920,824
University of Pennsylvania $532,140,579
Stanford University $525,716,278
Yale University $511,699,920
Columbia University Health Sciences $497,327,864
University of California, Los Angeles $494,000,577
Schools of Dentistry
University of California, San Francisco $22,033,043
University of Michigan $20,379,062
University of Pennsylvania $15,612,277
University of Southern California $15,305,630
University of Florida $11,665,314
University of California, Los Angeles $11,188,982
New York University $11,150,883
University of Connecticut School of Medicine/Dentistry $9,388,853
University of Maryland, Baltimore $7,553,193
Boston University Medical Campus $6,415,119
Schools of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco $13,152,764
University of Pennsylvania $10,817,966
Emory University $10,530,372
Columbia University Health Sciences $9,591,821
Duke University $8,463,412
University of Alabama, Birmingham $8,372,700
University of Illinois, Chicago $8,151,359
University of Washington $7,860,609
Washington State University $7,441,917
Johns Hopkins University $7,177,157
Schools of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco $39,453,841
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill $20,801,322
University of Florida $19,033,784
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center $15,534,019
University of Kentucky $14,311,589
University of Arizona $13,800,587
University of Washington $11,872,518
Purdue University $11,474,662
University of Michigan $10,340,969
Northeastern University $10,081,529
Schools of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University $170,007,843
Harvard School of Public Health $141,905,208
Columbia University Health Sciences $65,850,270
Brown University $65,319,136
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $61,238,206
University of Washington $53,242,533
Emory University $52,820,274
University of Pittsburgh $50,588,376
George Washington University $46,879,336
University of Michigan $44,362,751
I asked Roskoski, a recognized expert on NIH funding trends, how he got started reporting these numbers, which is a massive annual undertaking. He told me that NIH used to publish the rankings by universities and units but then stopped doing so. At that point, he took it on. “Back when I was a department chair at LSU, I always found these numbers to be very valuable when negotiating with my dean for resources. I knew my colleagues across the country did so as well. So I decided in 2006 I’d just compile them myself. I’ve tracked them ever since,” he said.
