For the second consecutive year and the third time in four years, the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy is ranked No. 2 in the nation in National Institutes of Health funding, KU officials announced today.
The top funded pharmacy school in the nation was at the University of California, San Francisco
The pharmacy school received more than $25 million in NIH research funding in fiscal year 2012, which was $3 million more than the previous year, officials said. The NIH is a primary source of federal funding for pharmacy schools.
“Faculty researchers at the KU School of Pharmacy are second to none,” Ken Audus, the pharmacy dean, said in a prepared statement. “Year after year, they compete for and earn significant outside funding. They bring millions of dollars to the university and the state, and more important, they make discoveries that improve the lives of people throughout the world.”
KU officials said it was the 12th consecutive year the school had been ranked in the top five. It has been in the top 10 every year since 1995. KU is the only Big 12 institution in the top 10.
They also said the school ranked No. 1 nationally in the value of awards per funded faculty member. The school’s 24 NIH-funded faculty members bring in an average of more than $1 million each. Additional funding is awarded to researchers who collaborate with colleagues from other schools.
KU officials said the rankings were based on data collected and posted by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The rankings are not made public by the association but are shared with their members. The pharmacy school at the University of California-San Francisco has for many years been the top funded NIH school in the country.
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