Contact: Ellen Bank
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June 16, 2004
CHARLESTON Continuing evidence of MUSC’s continuing climb in rankings among the nation’s academic medical centers was just released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in its funding comparisons of the nation’s 126 medical schools for FY 2003.
During the five-year period from FY 1998 to FY 2003 total NIH support to all College of Medicine departments has moved from 58th to 48th place. Or in dollar figures, total NIH funding to the college during the period increased from $31 million to $78.1 million.
In addition to total NIH funding to the nation’s medical colleges, the report broke down funding information by departments within the colleges.
MUSC College of Medicine departments ranked in the top 20 nationally include:
• Anatomy and Cell Biology, 15th nationally, with $8.6 million in funding
• Biostatistics, 6th nationally with $2.2 million in funding
• Ophthalmology, 10th nationally with $4.9 million in funding
• Otolaryngology, 12 nationally with $2.3 million in funding
• Psychiatry, 20th nationally with $14.2 million in funding
MUSC College of Medicine department ranked in the top 50 nationally include:
• Biochemistry, 36th nationally with $5.6 million in funding
• Internal medicine, 47th nationally with $16.7 million in funding
• Neurology, 48th nationally with $2.1 million in funding
• Pediatrics, 45th nationally with $3.7 million in funding
• Physiology, 29th nationally with $6.4 million in funding
Rankings are posted on the NIH website http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/medschc.htm
Cumulative research awards for the entire university for FY 2003 total $151.2 million. This includes NIH awards all of MUSC’s colleges and research support from the state of South Carolina, corporations and foundations.
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