UCSF is No. 1 Public Recipient of National Institutes of Health Funding in 2022
UC San Francisco received the most funding of any public institution from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022 for the 16th year running. UCSF was second highest among all the public and private institutions in the country.
The University’s total funding came to $823 million, setting a record for NIH funding to a public university.
UCSF Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as the Graduate Division, received 1,510 NIH grants and contracts during the fiscal year that ended in September of 2022. These highly competitive grants and awards support a wide range of basic, translational, social and population health sciences research, as well as education.
“NIH funding enables researchers at UCSF to explore biology and develop and test new treatments, and it is a lifeline for our scientific training programs,” said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS. “This year’s totals underscore the relevance and importance of our research in so many areas, from curiosity-based science to cancer to COVID-19.”
UCSF’s Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Pharmacy were first among their national peers, and the School of Nursing was first among public nursing schools and fourth overall.
The School of Medicine received $751 million in funding. The School of Pharmacy, the top school in its field for 43 years, received $30 million. The school of Dentistry received $24 million. And the School of Nursing received $13 million.
This enables the excellence of our programs in educating the next generation of scientists and clinicians.
The Graduate Division received more than $29 million in training grants, the largest amount given to a public institution, and the third highest overall. These funds support the division’s 19 science and social science doctoral programs, 11 science and health master’s programs, two professional doctorates, and over 1,000 post-doctoral scholars.
Combined with UCSF’s Discovery Fellows Program, these NIH grants ensure that all first- and second-year basic and biomedical sciences PhD students at UCSF receive full financial support.
“The funding from NIH is critical in supporting high-quality science across the translational spectrum – from discovery to population health. It is also essential funding for our students and trainees, who contribute so much to research at UCSF,” said Catherine Lucey, MD, executive vice chancellor and provost at UCSF. “This enables the excellence of our programs in educating the next generation of scientists and clinicians.”
UCSF’s NIH Funding by Year, 1992-2022
Total Funding in Dollars
1992: 191581193
1993: 186409720
1994: 196821578
1995: 199995210
1996: 212689594
1997: 212421310
1998: 227480693
1999: 257221330
2000: 293684003
2001: 314331458
2002: 337237096
2003: 420731695
2004: 438778831
2005: 452165301
2006: 434287257
2007: 444503415
2008: 510735527
2009: 486925303
2010: 488374355
2011: 532762757
2012: 521257234
2013: 517141053
2014: 546593187
2015: 563320692
2016: 577576919
2017: 593909890
2018: 647880065
2019: 684912356
2020: 685608202
2021: 709018244
2022: 823760533
Top NIH Funding Recipients, 2022
1. Johns Hopkins University: $839,852,301
2. UC San Francisco: $823,760,533
3. University of Pittsburgh: $675,447,236
4. Duke University: $672,506,294
5. University of Pennsylvania: $668,378,172
6. Stanford University: $651,714,427
7. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $644,315,349
8. Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.: $625,102,662
9. Washington University St. Louis: $620,587,925
10. Columbia University Health Sciences: $616,772,648
Top NIH Funding by Area or Researcher, 2022
Graduate Division Training Grants
1. University of Pennsylvania: $35,240,948
2. Johns Hopkins University: $34,902,429
3. UC San Francisco: $29,306,159
4. University of Washington: $26,998,734
5. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $26,014,104
School of Dentistry
1. UC San Francisco: $24,024,717
2. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $19,989,597
3. University of Southern California: $19,090,823
4. University of Pennsylvania: $15,955,129
5. New York University: $14,570,072
School of Medicine
1. UC San Francisco: $751,039,395
2. Stanford University: $584,073,475
3. Washington University St. Louis: $569,371,884
4. Johns Hopkins University: $567,352,370
5. University of Pennsylvania: $551,423,454
School of Nursing
1. Columbia University Health Sciences: $18,738,705
2. University of Pennsylvania: $18,183,342
3. Emory University: $15,030,322
4. UC San Francisco: $13,235,743
5. University of Alabama Birmingham: $9,405,898
School of Pharmacy
1. UC San Francisco: $30,217,559
2. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: $27,585,468
3. University of Florida: $22,488,999
4. University of New Mexico Health Sciences: $17,861,727
5. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $14,367,469
Top UCSF NIh recipients: principal investigators and centers
2. Harold Collard, MD, MS, CTSI, $10.7 million
3. Alan Ashworth, PhD, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, $9 million
4. Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, $8.4 million
5. Diane Havlir, MD, HIV and TB research $7.4 million
Source: Annual school rankings of NIH funding are based on the most current government data as compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.