The Yale Department of Psychiatry was ranked first in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding in psychiatry in 2024, according to a new report.
Yale faculty and affiliates were awarded $113.13 million in NIH grants in 2024, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Last year the department received $91.7 million in NIH grants, second behind the University of Pittsburgh, which ranked second in 2024 with $112.44 million in grants.
Four faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry and one faculty member in the Yale Child Study Center were in the top 100 of NIH-funded psychiatry faculty in the country, including Scott Woods, MD, professor of psychiatry, who was #1 at $24.33 million.
The report lists 1,460 researchers who combined received over $1.25 billion in research grants in 2024.
“This great news highlights our remarkable academic ecosystem,” wrote John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology, and chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, in an email to the department. “No single person achieved this ranking. Rather, it reflects contributions across our entire department: talented and committed faculty leading the research, highly-selected and well-educated trainees ‘learning the ropes,’ expert staff who carry out critical elements of the research, dedicated administrative staff who enable researchers to efficiently submit and manage their grants, revered clinicians who collaborate in research and refer their patients for studies, and of course the people who choose to participate as subjects in translational and clinical research studies.”