February 21, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—As reported earlier, investigators at Einstein and Montefiore secured $174 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in federal fiscal year 2017. Now, an analysis by Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research shows that Einstein ranks 7th in award dollars per investigator (28th in total funding) among the nation’s top medical schools.

Each year Blue Ridge releases its analysis of NIH funding, ranking medical schools and individual departments by total award dollars. For the first time this year, the site included the total number of principal investigators (PIs) at the 139 medical schools that receive NIH funding. Einstein’s top ten ranking was determined by dividing total award by number of PIs for the top 40 medical schools as determined by total NIH funding. (The top 40 institutions were those that received more than $120 million in 2017.) This places Einstein ahead of such medical schools as Columbia, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale.

Blue Ridge also ranked departments by total awards, and several basic science and clinical departments at Einstein and Montefiore placed in the top twenty nationally, including anatomy/cell biology, which combines awards to Einstein’s anatomy & structural biology and cell biology departments (#6), family medicine (#11), genetics (#12), neurosciences (#13), urology (#16), pediatrics (#19) and public health (#20).

“Einstein has long been respected for the excellence and productivity of its faculty,” says Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at Einstein. “This clear and objective evidence is a welcome confirmation of that fact. We are immensely proud of our researchers and their chairs, as well as the students, trainees, fellows and staff who help make this achievement possible.”

Rank
School of Medicine
Total Awards
No. of PIs
Total $ / PI

1
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
$169,628,084
176
$963,795

2
MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER
$253,755,770
266
$953,969

3
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
$305,679,847
350
$873,370

4
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
$334,752,481
385
$869,486

5
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
$328,366,751
406
$808,785

6
DUKE UNIVERSITY
$356,025,482
444
$801,859

7
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC
$174,455,049
220
$792,977

8
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
$232,235,358
296
$784,578

9
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
$350,338,254
450
$778,529

10
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
$422,642,872
545
$775,491

11
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
$191,472,140
250
$765,888

12
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
$461,594,973
603
$765,497

13
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
$205,998,266
271
$760,141

14
YALE UNIVERSITY
$387,119,589
510
$759,058

15
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
$176,238,173
233
$756,387

16
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
$272,644,942
364
$749,024

17
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
$410,142,907
549
$747,072

18
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
$527,220,449
713
$739,439

19
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
$156,928,995
217
$723,175

20
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
$406,264,855
570
$712,745