Comparison of NIH Award Recipients 1995 - 2004

All grant applications to the NIH are subject to a rigorous peer-review process. Because of this and because the NIH is the major funding source for biomedical research, success in obtaining basic science and clinical funding from NIH is an important measure of the quality of an institution and its faculty. Competition for NIH funding has increased dramatically in the past decade, and UTHSC-H’s ranking relative to similar institutions is an indicator of the university’s growth in research quality. Since the ranking system used in this survey takes into account total NIH dollars received, institutions with large numbers of faculty tend to rank higher than those with fewer faculty. Given the small number of UTHSC-H faculty relative to some of the other universities in this survey, the health science fares well in the comparison.

Note: Includes all higher education institutions that received support from the National Institutes of Health. There were 532 rankings in FY 2004.

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