The Yale Department of Psychiatry was ranked second in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding in psychiatry in 2025, according to a new report.
Yale faculty and affiliates were awarded $108.79 million in NIH grants in 2025, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The department finished second behind the University of Pittsburgh, which earned $111.58 million in grants.
Six faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry were in the top 100 of NIH-funded psychiatry faculty in the country, including Scott Woods, MD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, who was #1 at $26.93 million.
“I congratulate Dr. Scott Woods for, once again, being the top psychiatry investigator in the country with respect to NIH funding,” said 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.
The report lists 1,374 researchers who combined received over $1.27 billion in research grants in 2025.
“This great news highlights our remarkable academic ecosystem,” Krystal said. “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.”