The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.55 billion
in science, medical and engineering
research in fiscal year 2007, making it the leading U.S.
academic institution in total research and
development spending for the 29th 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 FY2007
on research supported by such agencies as
the National Institutes of Health, NSF, NASA and the
Department of Defense.
In FY2002, Johns Hopkins became the first university
to break 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 California,
San Francisco ranked second in R&D spending in FY2007 at
$842 million. The University of
Washington was second in federally financed R&D at $620
million.
Research funding at Johns Hopkins finances everything
from studies into the therapeutic
potential of stem cells to projects aimed at quelling the
spread of malaria, and from exploration of the
solar system to the development of scientific tools so
small they can only be seen with a microscope.
Research carried out 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. In fiscal 2007, the university
earned $12.8 million from nearly 750 licenses and
patents related to research discoveries and inventions
made at Johns Hopkins, up from $12.5 million in
revenue in fiscal 2006.
Aris Melissaratos, senior adviser to the president for
enterprise development at Johns Hopkins,
said the university's consistent leadership position in
securing research grants has become a
springboard from which to launch a wide variety of new,
life-improving products and businesses.
"At Johns Hopkins, one of our goals is to take what
our faculty learns through research into the
marketplace where it can help patients and consumers,"
Melissaratos said.
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 California,
San Francisco on the FY2007 total research
expenditure list is the University of Wisconsin, Madison at
$840 million, followed by the University of
California, Los Angeles at $823 million. Completing the top
five, with $808 million, is the University of
Michigan.
The total funding ranking includes research support
not only from federal agencies but also
from corporations, foundations and other sources.
For a breakdown of NSF data, go to
www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08320.
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