OT: Pitt in 5th place for Research Funding Nationwide

[Panthergrowl13]

The University of Pittsburgh moved up a notch to fifth place nationwide in government research funding, according to a new university analysis. Pitt received $475.4 million from the National Institutes of Health for the current fiscal year, a 10.4 percent increase from a year ago.

Harvard, the University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania were ranked first through fourth respectively.

HAIL TO PITT!!!!

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Great news and thanks for sharing. Do you have a link?

 

[President Stache]

That is big. We are always up there, good work by all involved.

 

[CaptainSidneyReilly]

The University of Pittsburgh moved up a notch to fifth place nationwide in government research funding, according to a new university analysis. Pitt received $475.4 million from the National Institutes of Health for the current fiscal year, a 10.4 percent increase from a year ago.

Harvard, the University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania were ranked first through fourth respectively.

HAIL TO PITT!!!!

Wow!

HARVARD
UCAL
JOHN HOPKINS
PENN
PITT

Pretty, pretty, pretty good company on that University Listings!

 

[CrazyPaco]

The University of Pittsburgh moved up a notch to fifth place nationwide in government research funding, according to a new university analysis. Pitt received $475.4 million from the National Institutes of Health for the current fiscal year, a 10.4 percent increase from a year ago.

Harvard, the University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania were ranked first through fourth respectively.

HAIL TO PITT!!!!

That is total NIH funding...so it essentially means Pitt is 5th in federal funding in the health and biosciences. This is not total federal research funding. Leave it to the PG to screw that up. I guess we should be grateful they are covering it at all because I don't think they ever have before. And Pitt is back in the top 5. Pitt has been in the top 5 before and has recently been 6th...bounces around some, but is generally 5th or 6th.

It is impressive that Pitt received a 10% increase in NIH funding over the prior year. Federal funding only gets more competitive and harder to get with each year. These things are all peer reviewed and it is unbelievably competitive. For 2015, only 18.3% of NIH-wide grants were funded. That compares to over 30% 20 years ago, but Pitt is increasing its share. That is very impressive.

BTW, Pitt is ranked #9 in the latest (FY14) NSF rankings of total federal obligations (that truly is total federally sponsor research). That is also unbelievably impressive. It is #16 in total R&D expenditures (all sources, including self funded), which has fallen in the past couple of years. Rankings of federally funded research are the more impressive ones, but Pitt clearly must do better at finding alternatives to federal research funding. It doesn't help the state absolutely sucks in funding any research.

The top 10 institutions in terms of total federally research are (source):
1. Johns Hopkins
2. Michigan
3. Washington
4. UCSD
5. Penn
6. UCSF
7. Stanford
8. UCLA
9. PITT
10. Harvard

 

[Panthergrowl13]

That is total NIH funding...so it essentially means Pitt is 5th in federal funding in the health and biosciences. This is not total federal research funding. Leave it to the PG to screw that up. I guess we should be grateful they are covering it at all because I don't think they ever have before. And Pitt is back in the top 5. Pitt has been in the top 5 before and has recently been 6th...bounces around some, but is generally 5th or 6th.

It is impressive that Pitt received a 10% increase in NIH funding over the prior year. Federal funding only gets more competitive and harder to get with each year. These things are all peer reviewed and it is unbelievably competitive. For 2015, only 18.3% of NIH-wide grants were funded. That compares to over 30% 20 years ago, but Pitt is increasing its share. That is very impressive.

BTW, Pitt is ranked #9 in the latest (FY14) NSF rankings of total federal obligations (that truly is total federally sponsor research). That is also unbelievably impressive. It is #16 in total R&D expenditures (all sources, including self funded), which has fallen in the past couple of years. Rankings of federally funded research are the more impressive ones, but Pitt clearly must do better at finding alternatives to federal research funding. It doesn't help the state absolutely sucks in funding any research.

The top 10 institutions in terms of total federally research are (source):
1. Johns Hopkins
2. Michigan
3. Washington
4. UCSD
5. Penn
6. UCSF
7. Stanford
8. UCLA
9. PITT
10. Harvard

Thanks Paco for the clarification.

The information I listed in the OP came from a "little blurb" appearing in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (6/14/16) business section.

What I don't understand is why Pitt (PR Dept. take note) doesn't write their own articles and have them submitted for publication to the PPG and Tribune.

These significant accomplishments by the University in many cases go unnoticed by the uninformed general public.

Pitt's ranking is truly impressive when compared to our peer universities (as Nordy used to say, you are known by the company you keep).

HAIL TO PITT!!!!

 

[doubleAA's]

So, UPS doesnt make the top 10 with all its funding in farming and communication majors?

 

[LivinWell]

We have been in the Top 10 in federally funded research for years now. Isnt it a surprise that we don't have a more significant biotech start-up presence. I don't thing Pittsburgh is anywhere close to other cities in the country. I could be wrong but how many Pgh biotechs went public or was sold for significant value?

 

[President Stache]

Well, I think we are becoming more of a presence in that respect. I think the city as a whole needs to help develop this though. Need tax breaks and a focus to specify on biotechs