News Brief
GALVESTON, Texas—In 2003, with total awards of $202,863,845, the School of Medicine of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) ranked 19th among 121 United States medical schools receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to figures supplied by the federal health research funding agency.
In Texas, UTMB’s School of Medicine ranked second in total NIH awards to Baylor College of Medicine Medical School, which ranked 10th nationally with $246,410,097.
Other Texas medical schools joining UTMB on the NIH list included the UT Southwestern Medical Center Medical School in Dallas, which ranked 21st with total awards of $173,839,840; UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School, which ranked 50th with $74,157,028; the UT Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, which ranked 58th with $61,504,289; Texas A&M University College of Medicine in College Station, which ranked 95th with $$14,325,338; and Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, which ranked 111th with $4,918,939.
UTMB President John D. Stobo said that NIH awards last fall for the Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases ($48 million) and the proposed Galveston National Laboratory ($110 million) catapulted UTMB’s School of Medicine into the top ranks of federal funding for medical schools doing biomedical research. “In the future, we expect that federally funded infectious disease research and vaccine development—as well as federal funding for research into many other fields—will become an ever-more significant part of UTMB’s budget,” Dr. Stobo said. “And that, we believe, will allow us to contribute in important new ways to the health of Texas, the United States, and the world.”
Total 2003 rankings of all U.S. medical schools are available from the NIH at the following web site: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/rank/medttl03.htm