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Yale Department of Psychiatry leads U.S. medical schools in research funding

March 07, 2018

The Yale Department of Psychiatry received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other U.S. medical school for psychiatric research in 2017.

Yale faculty and affiliates in 2017 were awarded $71.97 million in NIH grants, according to a report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Second on the list was the University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, which received $65 million in grants.

Several faculty affiliated with Yale were in the top 150 in funding in the country, according to the report. The report lists 1,156 researchers who combined received $815 million in research grants in 2017.

A link to the report may be found here.

Submitted by Christopher Gardner on March 08, 2018