ABSTRACT:

Grants given to MUSC researchers have grown every year since 1996. Research dollars have tripled over that period, and in 1998- 99 MUSC became the first institution in the state to break the $100 million mark.

MUSC ranked 71st in the country in National Institutes of Health awards in 2004, with $83.5 million, behind the University of Kentucky and just ahead of the University of Texas at Houston. The university ranked 67th in 2003.research has grown over the years, it still has a long way to go to catch up to No. 1 Johns Hopkins, which last year netted nearly $600 million in research dollars, more than three times MUSC's entire research budget.

Federal dollars account for three-quarters of the research done at MUSC. Beginning in the 1990s, Congress poured money into the National Institutes of Health. Consequently, the amount of research grants the agency awarded doubled between 1998 and 2004, when it awarded $22.9 billion. Between 1999 and 2003, annual growth in the amount of grants awarded by the agency grew between 13 and 15 percent every year.

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