A Letter from The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

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OVCR Annual ReportFiscal Year 2011Sponsored Research FundingSponsored Research FundingExecutive SummaryThe Washington University in St. Louis (WU) research program had another successful year infiscal year 2011 (FY11), receiving $617.7M of sponsored research awards. This amount offunding continues to demonstrate the strength of the WU research program and facultyengaged in research, a particularly successful achievement in light of a struggling nationaleconomy, intense scrutiny of government spending, and the end of the American Recovery andReinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.Funding HistoryFunding growth over five years (FY06-FY11) was a healthy 13.2%, largely due to the boom yearof FY10, which was also the peak year for ARRA funding. As expected, the ARRA awardsdropped in FY11 since most agencies completed awarding their ARRA funds in FY10. Asexplained later in this Executive Summary, ARRA was a one-time, unique occurrence in theresearch funding environment that all academic institutions experienced. WU certainlybenefited from this unusual funding opportunity, but ARRA funding decreased as expected,from $105M in FY10 to $47.4M in FY11 (54.9%). More importantly, however, WU facultymanaged to soften the effect of the ending of ARRA funding by acquiring $570.3M of non-ARRA funding, so that total funding in FY11 ($617.7M) decreased from FY10 ($706.3M) bymuch less (12.6%) than expected. Removing the ARRA funds from the total funding picturefor the sake of comparative analysis, the total funding in FY11 was 5.2% less than FY10, butgrew 1.2% over two years and 4.4% over five years.Total ($M)GrowthTotal (withARRA)Total (w/outARRA)FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 5-yr 4-yr 2-yr 1-yr546 537 548 567 706 618 13.2% 15.1% 9.0% -12.6%546 537 548 563 601 570 4.4% 6.1% 1.2% -5.2%The percentages of funding per major sponsor type related to total funding of $617.7M weresimilar or the same as for the prior year. Federal support accounted for 75.8% of total funding;state, local, and international for 4.2%; and private for 20.1%.Federal Agency FundingFederal agency support at $468M is by far the leading source of research award dollars for theUniversity, accounting for 75.8% of the total ($617.7M) for FY11. Federal dollars in FY11accounted for the same percentage of the total in FY10, a sign that University faculty remainedcompetitive for important federal support, particularly from the National Institutes of Health(NIH). The decrease in total federal funding dollars (12.5%) closely mirrors that of the totalfunding decrease (12.6%).1
OVCR Annual ReportFiscal Year 2011Sponsored Research FundingThe amount of federal direct costs received decreased by about $54M (13.6%) in FY11, andfederal Facilities & Administrative (F&A) costs received decreased by $13.0M (9.4%). For moredetails on direct and F&A costs, see Tables 5 through 6A on pages 25 through 27, and theSponsored Projects Expense section of this report.Key Federal Research SponsorsThe number one federal sponsor of University research is the NIH. Its total awardobligation of $418.1M to WU (13.5% less than the previous fiscal year) represents 67.7%of WU’s total sponsored project funding and 89.3% of itsfederal dollars. NIH was also the primary contributor ofARRA funding in the amount of $42.6M, which accountedfor 89.9% of total ARRA funding, 10.2% of total NIHdollars, and 6.9% of total funding to WU in FY11. NIHARRA funding to WU saw a 53.9% decrease from FY10 toFY11, correlating with the decrease in total ARRA funding(54.9%).School of Medicine NIH award dollars in FY11 ($390.5M)decreased by $57.1M (12.8%) compared to FY10($447.6M). The decrease in NIH funding to the School ofMedicine ($57.1M) was 87.3% of the total NIH decrease ofNIH is the primarycontributor of both totalfunding and ARRAfunding to the University.Subsequently, all Schoolsreceiving NIH fundingsaw decreases in supportfrom that federal agencyin FY11compared toFY10.$65.4M, 85.2% of the total federal dollar decrease of $67M, and 64.9% of the total fundingdecrease for the University ($88M). The Medical School and University continue to becompetitive for NIH dollars, however. The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research(BRIMR) ranks WU fourth among medical schools for NIH funding provided during thegovernment’s FY2011. 1Total NIH dollars awarded to the School of Engineering in FY11 ($9.7M) decreased by19.2% from the previous year. NIH award dollars in FY11 to the George Warren BrownSchool of Social Work decreased by $3.5M (32.7%), bringing it to just above the FY09funding level. Arts & Sciences experienced a similar decline to that of FY10, receiving 17.5%fewer NIH dollars in FY11.The National Science Foundation (NSF) remains the second largest contributor of federaldollars to University research with obligations of $14.8M for FY11, a 36.8% decrease fromthe prior year. The University received no ARRA funding directly from NSF in FY11. TheSchools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering typically receive the majority of NSF funding toWU. Engineering received $6.2M (a decrease of 17.3% from FY10), and Arts & Sciencesreceived $6.8M (a decrease of 49.3% from FY10). As with prior years, increases anddecreases in Arts & Sciences are due not from the loss or gain of one single grant butmultiple grants spread across the departments within the School. NSF funding to the Schoolof Medicine decreased by $483,000 (a decrease of 22.7% compared to the prior year). TheSchool of Social Work, which typically receives little or no funding from NSF each year,received no funding from NSF in FY11.1 The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR). www.brimr.org.2
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