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Yale Department of Psychiatry Tops U.S. Medical Schools in Psychiatric Research Funding

February 11, 2021

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 2020, according to a new national report.

Yale faculty and affiliates in 2020 were awarded $110.35 million in NIH grants, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. That represents a 31.5 percent increase from 2019, when the department received $75.5 million in NIH grants.

Second on the list in 2020 was the University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, which received $97.54 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 1,246 researchers who combined received $1 billion in research grants in 2020.

A link to the report may be found here.

Submitted by Christopher Gardner on February 12, 2021