36th Semiannual
*University of California, San Diego
Thursday, August 22, 2013
NIH 2011 Ranking: 7th (Direct plus indirect costs but excluding R & D contracts and ARRA awards) = $396,248,900 [1]
NSF 2010 Ranking: 15th (total R&D expenditures in life sciences) = $537,457,000 [2]
8th in total Federal R&D Funding [3]
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently (May 2013) awarded UC San Diego $6.4 million to create a new stem cell imaging center. [4]
In 2011 UCSD surpassed its own record by raising over $1 billion in research funding.
UC San Diego is to break ground on the $269 million Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute in January 2013. [5]
The $179 million UC San Diego Health Sciences building will provide 196,000 gross square feet of research and support space needed to advance major interdisciplinary programs, including Medical Genomics. It will also provide research space for new faculty in Pediatrics, Neurosciences, Reproductive Medicine and Surgery. The Completion date is set for April 2013. [6]
UC San Diego Health Sciences, and the Clinical and Translational Research Institute, received an award of $37.2 million for Clinical and Translational Science work to improve and increase the speed of converting biomedical research into effective treatment. [7]
UC San Diego's professor of medicine and director of the Center of Renal Translational Medicine Kumar Sharma was awarded a $5.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study kidney complications related to type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [8]
UC San Diego received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new bioinformatics tools which will be used to manage data sets used in next-generation DNA sequencing. [9]
The University of California, San Diego received $20 million, funding over a 5 year term from the National Cancer Institute, in order to continue research focused on understanding the pathology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. [10]
Five scientists from the University of California, San Diego and its School of Medicine have been awarded almost $12 million in new grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to conduct stem-cell based research. [11]
UC San Diego is leading research into the genetics of Schizophrenia, which will be funded with a $10 million renewal grant from NIH. [12]
UCSD Health Sciences received a gift of $10 million to be put towards the building of a new a new 269 million Research Institute for UCSD researchers and clinicians to research and address treatment of major diseases. [13]
The Department of Defense announced last week that it would fund a five-year 7.5 million sleep and memory study by researchers at UC San Diego, the University of Arizona, UC Riverside and Harvard Medical School. It’s one of the largest such studies ever conducted. [14]
UC San Diego received $6 million to accelerate "metabolomics", an emerging field of biomedical research that offers a path to a wealth of information about a person's nutrition, infection, health, disease status and more. [15]
UCSD was recently included (June 2013) in a $6 million multi-institution collaborative grant to study the causes of heart disease. [16]
A $4.6 million grant to UC San Diego Center for Neural Repair will fund work to identify the optimal human neural stem cells for preclinical development and test this treatment in appropriate preclinical models of spinal cord injury. [17]
The UC San Diego School of Medicine has 18 research institutes and centers, Including the Institute of Molecular Medicine, AIDS Research Institute, Clinical Investigation Institute, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego Branch.
UC San Diego received $1.8 million to support research into using human embryonic stem cells to produce a renewable source of human cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) to replace cells damaged or destroyed by disease. [18]
UC San Diego received a $1.8 million award, to continue research and development into new methods to find and test drug candidates for Alzheimer’s disease. [19]
UC San Diego will receive a $1.6 million grant to further research recent discoveries specific mutations in RNA-binding proteins cause neuronal dysfunction and death. [20]
UC San Diego received $1.4 million from National Institutes of Health, for regulatory genomic studies in a cohort of IPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes. [21]
UC San Diego received $1.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, to help establish an interdisciplinary stem-cell training program. [22]
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, received $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation for research into a molecular approach to delivering drugs that could change the pharmaceutical industry in the future. [23]
UC San Diego science programs have been ranked among the best in the nation by the National Research Council, including biomedical engineering, neurosciences, pharmacology and physiology. [24]
UC San Diego is the 3rd largest employer in the county (26,000 employees) and its faculty and alumni have created 193 new startup companies, including many local biotech firms. [25]
The University of California San Diego received a $20 million grant as part of a consortium to further research leukemia. UC San Diego will lead the consortium in this activity. [26]
The University of California San Diego received $132 million from the state’s stem cell agency for stem cell research. [27]
In the past year UCSD has been realizing its effort to improve its cancer research program with the recruitment of several new principal investigators, renowned researchers, and a phase one program allowing UCSD scientists and local biotech companies to do clinical drug trials at UCSD. [28]
References:
[1] Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, Ranking Table of NIH Funding (by Institution) to US Medical Schools in 2011, http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/2011/NIH_Awards_2011.htm
[2] The National Science Foundation, 2012, TABLE 23. R&D expenditures in the life sciences at universities and colleges, ranked by all FY 2010 life sciences: FY 2007–10 and by subfield for FY 2010: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf12330/pdf/tab23.pdf
[3] Newswise May 23, 2013 http://www.newswise.com/articles/investing-in-the-future-uc-san-diego-s-federal-research-funding-among-top-10-in-nation-despite-campus-s-relative-youth
[4] UT San Diego May 23, 2013 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/23/cirm-ucsd-ahrens/
[5] From U.T. San Diego News, October 21, 2012: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/21/ucsd-expanding-bench-to-bedside-research/
[6] From: UC San Diego Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility Phase II, December 2012: Health http://commplan.ucsd.edu/ucsdprojects.htm
[7] From UC San Diego News, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2010/07/19_index.asp
[8] UC San Diego News - http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/2011_10sharma-grant.asp
[9] From UC San Diego - http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/2011_10biokepler.asp
[10] From GenomeWeb Daily News, September 28, 2012: http://www.genomeweb.com/ucsd-use-20m-nci-funds-lead-leukemia-consortium
[11] News Medical http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120528/UCSD-scientists-receive-new-CIRM- grants-to-conduct-stem-cell-based-research.aspx
[12] From UCSD news, July 30, 2010: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2010/Pages/7-29-schizophrenia-renewal-grant.aspx
[13] Abc 10 News http://www.10news.com/lifestyle/health/new-269-million-uc-san-diego-research- institute-breaks-ground01102013
[14] The Press Enterprise, June 13, 2013 http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130618-ucr-researcher-heads-7.5-million-dod-sleep-study.ece
[15] From Eureka Alert, 24 September 2012: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc--usd092412.php
[16] Explorer News June 19, 2013 http://explorernews.com/blogs/university_of_arizona/article_b1e75df6-d83c-11e2-a8ad-001a4bcf887a.html
[17] From UC San Diego News center, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/about/index.html#institution
[18] From UC San Diego News center, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[19] From: UC San Diego Health Sciences News, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[20] From UC San Diego News center, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[21] From UC San Diego News, August 7, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/
[22] From UC San Diego News, August 7, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/
[23] From UC San Diego News Center, October 4, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/features/wm_keck_foundation_awards_1_million_to_uc_san_diego_researchers_studying_pioneering_breakthrough
[24] From UC San Diego News, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/09-28DoctoralPrograms.asp
[25] From UC San Diego News center, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/about/index.html#institution
[26] From GenomeWeb Daily News, http://www.genomeweb.com/ucsd-use-20m-nci-funds-lead-leukemia-consortium
[27] From U.C. San Diego, December 24, 2012, http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/24/stem-cell-board-gives-grants-its-own-members/
[28] UT San Diego http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/09/ucsd-recruits-nobel-prize-caliber- cancer-expert/?sciquest
NSF 2010 Ranking: 15th (total R&D expenditures in life sciences) = $537,457,000 [2]
8th in total Federal R&D Funding [3]
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently (May 2013) awarded UC San Diego $6.4 million to create a new stem cell imaging center. [4]
In 2011 UCSD surpassed its own record by raising over $1 billion in research funding.
UC San Diego is to break ground on the $269 million Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute in January 2013. [5]
The $179 million UC San Diego Health Sciences building will provide 196,000 gross square feet of research and support space needed to advance major interdisciplinary programs, including Medical Genomics. It will also provide research space for new faculty in Pediatrics, Neurosciences, Reproductive Medicine and Surgery. The Completion date is set for April 2013. [6]
UC San Diego Health Sciences, and the Clinical and Translational Research Institute, received an award of $37.2 million for Clinical and Translational Science work to improve and increase the speed of converting biomedical research into effective treatment. [7]
UC San Diego's professor of medicine and director of the Center of Renal Translational Medicine Kumar Sharma was awarded a $5.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study kidney complications related to type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [8]
UC San Diego received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new bioinformatics tools which will be used to manage data sets used in next-generation DNA sequencing. [9]
The University of California, San Diego received $20 million, funding over a 5 year term from the National Cancer Institute, in order to continue research focused on understanding the pathology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. [10]
Five scientists from the University of California, San Diego and its School of Medicine have been awarded almost $12 million in new grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to conduct stem-cell based research. [11]
UC San Diego is leading research into the genetics of Schizophrenia, which will be funded with a $10 million renewal grant from NIH. [12]
UCSD Health Sciences received a gift of $10 million to be put towards the building of a new a new 269 million Research Institute for UCSD researchers and clinicians to research and address treatment of major diseases. [13]
The Department of Defense announced last week that it would fund a five-year 7.5 million sleep and memory study by researchers at UC San Diego, the University of Arizona, UC Riverside and Harvard Medical School. It’s one of the largest such studies ever conducted. [14]
UC San Diego received $6 million to accelerate "metabolomics", an emerging field of biomedical research that offers a path to a wealth of information about a person's nutrition, infection, health, disease status and more. [15]
UCSD was recently included (June 2013) in a $6 million multi-institution collaborative grant to study the causes of heart disease. [16]
A $4.6 million grant to UC San Diego Center for Neural Repair will fund work to identify the optimal human neural stem cells for preclinical development and test this treatment in appropriate preclinical models of spinal cord injury. [17]
The UC San Diego School of Medicine has 18 research institutes and centers, Including the Institute of Molecular Medicine, AIDS Research Institute, Clinical Investigation Institute, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego Branch.
UC San Diego received $1.8 million to support research into using human embryonic stem cells to produce a renewable source of human cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) to replace cells damaged or destroyed by disease. [18]
UC San Diego received a $1.8 million award, to continue research and development into new methods to find and test drug candidates for Alzheimer’s disease. [19]
UC San Diego will receive a $1.6 million grant to further research recent discoveries specific mutations in RNA-binding proteins cause neuronal dysfunction and death. [20]
UC San Diego received $1.4 million from National Institutes of Health, for regulatory genomic studies in a cohort of IPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes. [21]
UC San Diego received $1.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, to help establish an interdisciplinary stem-cell training program. [22]
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, received $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation for research into a molecular approach to delivering drugs that could change the pharmaceutical industry in the future. [23]
UC San Diego science programs have been ranked among the best in the nation by the National Research Council, including biomedical engineering, neurosciences, pharmacology and physiology. [24]
UC San Diego is the 3rd largest employer in the county (26,000 employees) and its faculty and alumni have created 193 new startup companies, including many local biotech firms. [25]
The University of California San Diego received a $20 million grant as part of a consortium to further research leukemia. UC San Diego will lead the consortium in this activity. [26]
The University of California San Diego received $132 million from the state’s stem cell agency for stem cell research. [27]
In the past year UCSD has been realizing its effort to improve its cancer research program with the recruitment of several new principal investigators, renowned researchers, and a phase one program allowing UCSD scientists and local biotech companies to do clinical drug trials at UCSD. [28]
References:
[1] Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, Ranking Table of NIH Funding (by Institution) to US Medical Schools in 2011, http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/2011/NIH_Awards_2011.htm
[2] The National Science Foundation, 2012, TABLE 23. R&D expenditures in the life sciences at universities and colleges, ranked by all FY 2010 life sciences: FY 2007–10 and by subfield for FY 2010: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf12330/pdf/tab23.pdf
[3] Newswise May 23, 2013 http://www.newswise.com/articles/investing-in-the-future-uc-san-diego-s-federal-research-funding-among-top-10-in-nation-despite-campus-s-relative-youth
[4] UT San Diego May 23, 2013 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/23/cirm-ucsd-ahrens/
[5] From U.T. San Diego News, October 21, 2012: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/21/ucsd-expanding-bench-to-bedside-research/
[6] From: UC San Diego Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility Phase II, December 2012: Health http://commplan.ucsd.edu/ucsdprojects.htm
[7] From UC San Diego News, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2010/07/19_index.asp
[8] UC San Diego News - http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/2011_10sharma-grant.asp
[9] From UC San Diego - http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/2011_10biokepler.asp
[10] From GenomeWeb Daily News, September 28, 2012: http://www.genomeweb.com/ucsd-use-20m-nci-funds-lead-leukemia-consortium
[11] News Medical http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120528/UCSD-scientists-receive-new-CIRM- grants-to-conduct-stem-cell-based-research.aspx
[12] From UCSD news, July 30, 2010: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2010/Pages/7-29-schizophrenia-renewal-grant.aspx
[13] Abc 10 News http://www.10news.com/lifestyle/health/new-269-million-uc-san-diego-research- institute-breaks-ground01102013
[14] The Press Enterprise, June 13, 2013 http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130618-ucr-researcher-heads-7.5-million-dod-sleep-study.ece
[15] From Eureka Alert, 24 September 2012: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc--usd092412.php
[16] Explorer News June 19, 2013 http://explorernews.com/blogs/university_of_arizona/article_b1e75df6-d83c-11e2-a8ad-001a4bcf887a.html
[17] From UC San Diego News center, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/about/index.html#institution
[18] From UC San Diego News center, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[19] From: UC San Diego Health Sciences News, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[20] From UC San Diego News center, June 2012: http://ucsdhealthsciences.tumblr.com/post/23737797990/uc-san-diego-researchers-receive-new-cirm-funding
[21] From UC San Diego News, August 7, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/
[22] From UC San Diego News, August 7, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/
[23] From UC San Diego News Center, October 4, 2012: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/features/wm_keck_foundation_awards_1_million_to_uc_san_diego_researchers_studying_pioneering_breakthrough
[24] From UC San Diego News, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/09-28DoctoralPrograms.asp
[25] From UC San Diego News center, http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/about/index.html#institution
[26] From GenomeWeb Daily News, http://www.genomeweb.com/ucsd-use-20m-nci-funds-lead-leukemia-consortium
[27] From U.C. San Diego, December 24, 2012, http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/24/stem-cell-board-gives-grants-its-own-members/
[28] UT San Diego http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/09/ucsd-recruits-nobel-prize-caliber- cancer-expert/?sciquest
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