Dear Members of the UCSF Community,
I am delighted to share the news that in 2018, for the 12th consecutive year, UCSF was awarded more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other public university in the United States, and the second most overall.
Our four schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy, along with our Graduate Division, earned a record amount totaling more than $647.8 million of these highly competitive contracts and grants, which support research into the fundamental underpinnings of life, the development of treatment strategies for the full spectrum of human diseases, and training for the next generation of researchers and clinicians. The schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Pharmacy topped the nation in federal funding in their fields, and the School of Nursing received the most of any public nursing school and the second most overall nationwide. Read more about this accomplishment.
This marks the first time that UCSF has surpassed $600 million, and it represents UCSF’s largest increase in NIH funding (9.09 percent) since 2011. Our success in competing for NIH funds reflects the high caliber of scientific discovery underway across UCSF.
NIH funding is the lifeblood of our research enterprise, enabling our faculty, staff, students, and trainees to confront problems and answer questions in the biomedical sciences, from curiosity-driven research to the application of those discoveries to patients and populations.
We remain vigilant in our...