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For the eighth year in a row, BWH ranked second in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among independent hospitals, up 9.2 percent from last year. In 2001, BWH received more than $177 million dollars in funding from the NIH. The Boston medical community led the nation, boasting the number one through five top-funded independent hospitals. Among independent hospitals, Mass-General ranked first in funding with more than $208 million and Beth Israel Deaconess, with $98 million, ranked third. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.
“With a very high research density and little room to physically expand our laboratories this year, our continued growth is an impressive achievement,” said Keith Marcotte, vice president, Research. “The trend we have seen this year reflects a pattern common in the past twenty years – that our NIH numbers plateau prior to new construction and expansion. We expect that as the Children’s research building and new Harvard Research building near completion, our NIH funding will grow in direct correlation with new space,” he added. Marcotte noted that as BWH researchers plan to move to Longwood’s new, state of the art facilities in 2003 and 2004, there will be 60,000 square feet of back-fill research space on campus. “Our research community is enthusiastic about the future and the collaborative opportunities that will be available to us down the road,” he said.
Partners again represented a strong showing, receiving a more than $400 million in combined NIH funding. This total brings Partners second only to Johns Hopkins among all institutions receiving funds.
In 2001, BWH’s total research expenditures, including federal and non-federal funds as well as direct and indirect costs, reached more than $240 million and it is anticipated that expenditures will pass the quarter of a billion mark this year. Partners as a whole spends close to $600 million on research, making it one of the largest bio-medical research institutes in the world.