Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Fastest Growing Research Program in NYS
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is ranked 22nd among the nation’s 125 medical schools in receipt of funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH awards to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Government FY02 totaled $142.2 million. With this year’s funding representing an increase of 16.7 percent over last year and an 80.5 percent increase since 1998, Mount Sinai is the fastest growing medical school research program in New York.
Mount Sinai faculty received grants from 20 of NIH’s funding Institutes and Centers. Approximately 2,350 research projects of all types were active in Academic FY02 with the federal government. Of the 31 research areas individually ranked by NIH, Mount Sinai ranks in the top 20 in 14 and in the top 10 in 3. In FY01 Mount Sinai received $121.9 million in NIH support and was ranked 24th in the nation.
“The dramatic rise in NIH funding is a reflection of Mount Sinai’s dynamic enhancement of research programs, the addition of new research-oriented faculty, and strong performance by our many dedicated scientific investigators,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and President and CEO of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. “Mount Sinai’s physicians and researchers work together to translate the breakthroughs made today in the laboratory into tomorrow’s medicine. The first to benefit from this synergism are our patients.”#