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FIGURE 11
Distribution of NIH Research Project Grants by Institution, 1998
bia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
(American Society for Cell Biology)
*Stephen H. White, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology
and Biophysics, University of California–Irvine.
(Biophysical Society)
*David S. Lester, Ph.D. Pharmacologist, Food and Drug
Administration. (American Association of Anatomists)
Tony E. Hugli, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Immunology,
Scripps Research Institute. (The Protein Society)
Nicola C. Partridge, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology
and Physiological Science, St. Louis University
School of Medicine. (The American Society for
Bone and Mineral Research)
Edward J. Benz, M.D. Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University. (American Society for Clinical Investigation)
Henry M. Kronenberg, M.D. Professor of Medicine and
Chief, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital.
(The Endocrine Society)
Philip R. Reilly, M.D., J.D., President/CEO, Eunice
Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, Mass. (The American
Society of Human Genetics)
Associate Members (non-voting)
Margaret S. Saha, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biology,
College of William and Mary. (Society for Developmental
Biology)
*Fred R. Naider, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry,
College of Staten Island, CUNY. (American Peptide
Society)
*David W. Speicher, Ph.D. Professor, The Wistar Institute,
University of Pennsylvania. (ABRF)
Barry R. Zirkin, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry, Division
of Reproductive Biology, Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health. (Society for
the Study of Reproduction)
Thomas B. Knudsen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Anatomy,
Jefferson Medical College. (Teratology Society)
Ex Officio (non-voting)
David G. Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (FASEB President)
INSTRUMENTATION NEEDS
1998 NIH Research Project Grants FASEB Survey
Institution Number Percentage Dollar, K Percentage Percentage
Medical School 14,898 54.3% 4,141,424 54.3% 52%
University 7,661 27.9% 2,129,645 27.9% 37%
For-Profit 103 0.4% 28,632 0.4% 1.1%
Hospital 2,157 7.9% 599,614 7.9% 2.4%
Nonprofit 2,641 9.6% 734,159 9.6% 7.5%
Totals 27,460 100.0% 7,633,474 100.0% 100%
Distribution of NIH research project grants by institution, 1998.
Sue P. Duckles, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, Department
of Pharmacology, University of California–
Irvine College of Medicine. (FASEB Vice-President Elect
for Science Policy)
Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D. Professor and Head, Department
of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of
Iowa—College of Medicine. (FASEB President Elect)
Sidney H. Golub, Ph.D. (FASEB Executive Director)
*Members of the Instrumentation and Infrastructure Subcommittee.
ENDNOTES
1. NIH Competing and Noncompeting Research Project
Grants by Type at http://silk.nih.gov/public/cbz2zoz.
@www.trends99.rpgtype.fy9099.html and FY2001 President’s
Budget Press Briefing at http://www4.od.nih.gov/
ofm/budget/fy2001Pressbriefing.htm
2. The National Survey of Academic Research Instruments
and Instrumentation Needs (Instrumentation Survey) is
a congressionally mandated program that collects data
concerning scientific research instruments and the academic
departments and facilities in which they are located.
3. Evaluation of NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program:
Reports From Users, published in 1996.
4. The authors would like to thank Bob Moore of the NIH
Office of Extramural Research for assistance in obtaining
information on NIH R01 recipients.
5. Bohne Silber and colleagues at Silber & Associates,
Clarksville, MD conducted the survey and data tabulation.
6. The respondents’ primary professional appointment
and their annual direct cost laboratory budgets corresponded
closely with the profile of the NIH R01 population.
Just over one-half of the survey respondents
(52%) reported that their primary appointment was in
a medical school. A nearly identical fraction of all
research project grants from the NIH (54%) were made
to investigators with medical school affiliations (Fig.
11). There is a slight over-representation of universitybased
researchers in the survey respondent sample,
but in all other categories the distribution of survey
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