Last month, the agency released its medical school rankings by total 2001 award amounts. The ability to raise federal funding helps schools dominate in the competition for talent, and each of the country's top 10 received more than $200 million in NIH grants. The top 30 medical schools received more than $100 million each. "Medical schools are major partners for the NIH in accomplishing our mission," says Wendy Baldwin, deputy NIH director for extramural research. "They are responsible for such a broad range of research and are especially critical when it comes time to translate basic research into clinical application. It is that translation that is the ultimate goal."
While many of the top earners obviously benefit from ample endowments and from reputations that attract ambitious faculty members, university deans say they have employed strategies that could prove beneficial to smaller institutions. "In the biomedical arena, Johns Hopkins has a ...
