OT: National Institute of Health Funding - PITT #3!
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Fiscal year 2018 isn't finished yet, and is only $9 million ahead of Michigan. There are is plenty of money and grants that will still be awarded before the end of the FY. But if it finished ahead of Penn, it would be the first time ever. Pitt's been sitting at 5th in the final yearly tallies since 2014. Pitt currently sits at 4th for total # of awards.
What makes this impressive is that this funding is highly competitive...only about 20% of research grant applications to NIH get funded. NIH grants are the gold standard across biomedical and health research. It makes and breaks careers. The portfolio of NIH-research projects at any one institution is the defacto indicator of its biomedical and health sciences prowess. These really are the best in the world as well.
The actual up-to-date ranking can be found here: https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm
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Absolutely impressive!!!!!
Also in US News Americas Best Graduate Schools 2019 Ranking, Pitt Medical School came in at #14. In fact all of Pitt's Health Science Professions were ranked in the Top 20 (Physical Therapy #1, Occupational Therapy #3, Nursing DNP #5, Pharmacy #9, Medicine #14 etc.)
Consider the fact that NO Big Ten Medical was ranked higher than Pitt Medical School.
When comparing the ACC Medical school rankings only Duke University Medical School was ranked higher.
HAIL TO PITT!!!!
Also in US News Americas Best Graduate Schools 2019 Ranking, Pitt Medical School came in at #14. In fact all of Pitt's Health Science Professions were ranked in the Top 20 (Physical Therapy #1, Occupational Therapy #3, Nursing DNP #5, Pharmacy #9, Medicine #14 etc.)
Consider the fact that NO Big Ten Medical was ranked higher than Pitt Medical School.
When comparing the ACC Medical school rankings only Duke University Medical School was ranked higher.
HAIL TO PITT!!!!
So to update this, the end of NIH's fiscal year was September 30th, and Pitt finished 4th in total total $ funding with $534.1 million for the 2018 FY.
Now that could change as universities can still submit error corrections, but I doubt Pitt's standing will change. For the full sortable list, see https://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm
The main story here is that Pitt has just had its best ever year in total $ funding compared to peers, surpassing Penn for the first time and hot on the heels of Michigan (John's Hopkins and UCSF are 1 & 2). This does not including $41 million in funding to the Magee-Womens Research Institute, which is composed pretty much of all Pitt faculty. If you combined that, it would put Pitt into 3rd place. However, if you start combining affiliates, then things start to change, because Harvard jumps up to the top, although Pitt's place pretty much stays the same. Pitt, however, still finished 5th in the number of awards with 1,110, which is only 16 grants behind Penn.
Keep in mind that NIH is the most prestigious and competitive source to obtain grants in the health and biomedical sciences. It is very difficult to move at the top of this list as institutions are fairly well entrenched. We'll see if this can be sustained and if Pitt can keep gaining ground, but for now Pitt, for the first time, can boast of being the #1 site of health science and biomedical research in Pennsylvania.
Now that could change as universities can still submit error corrections, but I doubt Pitt's standing will change. For the full sortable list, see https://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm
The main story here is that Pitt has just had its best ever year in total $ funding compared to peers, surpassing Penn for the first time and hot on the heels of Michigan (John's Hopkins and UCSF are 1 & 2). This does not including $41 million in funding to the Magee-Womens Research Institute, which is composed pretty much of all Pitt faculty. If you combined that, it would put Pitt into 3rd place. However, if you start combining affiliates, then things start to change, because Harvard jumps up to the top, although Pitt's place pretty much stays the same. Pitt, however, still finished 5th in the number of awards with 1,110, which is only 16 grants behind Penn.
Keep in mind that NIH is the most prestigious and competitive source to obtain grants in the health and biomedical sciences. It is very difficult to move at the top of this list as institutions are fairly well entrenched. We'll see if this can be sustained and if Pitt can keep gaining ground, but for now Pitt, for the first time, can boast of being the #1 site of health science and biomedical research in Pennsylvania.
