The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.49 billion
in science, medical and engineering
research in fiscal year 2006, making it the leading U.S.
academic institution in total R&D spending for
the 28th year in a row, according to a new National Science
Foundation ranking.
The university also ranked first — once again
— on the NSF's separate list of federally funded
research and development, spending $1.3 billion in FY2006
on research supported by such agencies as
the National Institutes of Health, the National Science
Foundation, NASA and the Department of
Defense.
In FY2002, Johns Hopkins became the first university
to cross the $1 billion threshold on
either list, recording $1.14 billion in total research and
$1.023 billion in federally sponsored research
that year. To date, no other institution has reached that
$1 billion mark. The University of Wisconsin,
Madison ranked second in R&D spending in FY2006 at $831.9
million. The University of Washington
was second in federally financed R&D at $650.4 million.
Funding at Johns Hopkins underwrites projects
investigating everything from strategies for
reducing deaths from malaria worldwide to the microscopic
world of stem cells to how a mysterious
force called dark energy is fueling an acceleration of the
expansion of the universe.
Research conducted at the university's Krieger School
of Arts and Sciences, Bloomberg School
of Public Health, School of Medicine, Whiting School of
Engineering, School of Nursing and Applied
Physics Laboratory is supported by funding from both
federal and other sources.
Aris Melissaratos, special adviser to the president
for enterprise development at Johns
Hopkins, said that the university's success in winning
research grants lays the basis for new
businesses and products based on discoveries by university
researchers.
"Johns Hopkins is putting renewed emphasis on getting
the results of our faculty's research out
into the marketplace where it can do the most good for
patients and consumers," said Melissaratos,
who oversees technology transfer at the university. "In
fiscal 2006, the university earned $12.5
million from 799 licenses and patents. That's a good
performance, and we're working hard to do an
even better job of creating connections between our
researchers and business."
Johns Hopkins has led the NSF's research expenditure
ranking each year since 1979, when the
agency's methodology changed to include spending by the
Applied Physics Laboratory in the
university's totals. Behind the University of Wisconsin,
Madison on the FY2006 total research
expenditure list is the University of California, Los
Angeles, at $811 million, followed by the University
of Michigan with $800 million. Completing the top five,
with $796 million, is the University of
California, San Francisco.
The total funding ranking includes research support
not only from federal agencies but also
from corporations, foundations and other sources.
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