A look at the 25 biggest awards given out to institutes and the top 20 individual recipients from each of them

As year end approaches, we thought our website visitors would be interested in seeing which institutions, scientists, and projects received the largest NIH grants in 2007. Below, please find two listings. The first shows the top 25 grant receiving institutions based on the total value of all NIH grants awarded in 2007. The second covers the top 20 NIH-funded principal investigators affiliated with one of those institutes and their respective projects at those institutes.


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Top 25 NIH-Funded Institutes
Johns Hopkins University – $566,516,255
University of Pennsylvania – $434,874,723
University of Washington – $413,626,930
University of California, San Francisco – $395,495,921
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – $392,715,838
Duke University – $372,132,106
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh – $366,705,109
Washington University – $365,486,851
Yale University – $339,469,947
University of California, San Diego – $313,517,053
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – $304,100,696
Stanford University – $298,523,784
Massachusetts General Hospital – $297,142,017
Vanderbilt University – $288,640,609
Columbia University Health Sciences – $280,158,693
Brigham and Women’s Hospital – $254,495,260
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities – $247,095,682
University of California, Los Angeles – $242,167,059
University of Wisconsin, Madison – $233,382,149
Emory University – $220,375,040
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – $217,239,139
Baylor College of Medicine – $207,665,311
Scripps Research Institute – $197,935,398
University of Chicago – $194,964,247
University of Alabama at Birmingham – $192,223,812


Top 20 NIH-funded Principal Investigators Affiliated with One of the Above Institutes and the Projects Being Done at  Those Institutes
Barton F. Haynes (Duke University) – Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology: $46,482,429
Richard K. Wilson (Washington University) – Center for Large-Scale Genome Sequencing & Analysis – $45,224,621
Lawrence Corey (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) – Leadership Group for a Global HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials Network – $41,690,531
Richard A. Gibbs (Baylor College of Medicine) – Genomes and Genetics at the BCM-HGSC – $27,589,422
James D. Neaton (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) – International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT) – $24,888,780
Sidney D. Nelson (University of Washington) – National Primate Research Center – $12,601,466
David Salmon (University of California, San Diego) – Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study – $10,534,032
Ian A. Wilson (Scripps Research Institute) – Joint Center for Structural Genomics – $10,159,851
Andrzej Joachimiak (University of Chicago) – The Midwest Center for Structural Genomics – $10,159,851
Ronald Gary Tompkins (Massachusetts General Hospital) – Inflammation and the Host Responses to Injury – $7,963,235.
Ronald W. Davis (Stanford University) – Functional Genomics and Technology – $7,891,904
Martin D. Abeloff (John Hopkins University) – Regional Oncology Research Center – $7,564,613
John H. Glick (University of Pennsylvania) – Abramson Cancer Center of the U of P Core Support Grant – $7,282,327
Martin Cadwallader (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – Regional Primate Research Center Support – $7,237,955
Gary L. Gottlieb (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) – General Clinical Research Center – $6,178,289
Edward Partridge (University of Alabama at Birmingham) – Comprehensive Cancer Center Core Support Grant – $5,898,083
Frank Patrick McCormick (University of California, San Francisco) – Cancer Center Support Grant – $5,838,822

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