Of the total $368.7 million in NIH grants awarded to the Medical School in federal fiscal year 2010, $36.2 million were awarded through the federal economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Non-ARRA-related NIH grants for the School totaled $332.5 million, reflecting a significant increase in awards from NIH base appropriation funding over the prior year. NIH base appropriation funding is longer-term and generally provides more sustainable and predictable funding than ARRA research awards which are limited to two years of funding.

"In federal fiscal year 2010, our researchers continued to be successful in obtaining funding on the national stage," said U-M Medical School Senior Associate Dean for Research Steven Kunkel, Ph.D.

"In terms of base appropriations, our researchers garnered 2.88 percent of all non-ARRA-related NIH funding. This reflects an increase in market share for U-M Medical School compared to the prior year and is further evidence of the skill, expertise, and innovativeness of our researchers."

NIH grants make up the vast majority of all research funds to the Medical School. But other funding sources are becoming increasingly important.

In all, U-M Medical School research funding awards from all sources totaled $481.8 million in U-M fiscal year 2010, an increase of 10 percent from the prior year. In fiscal year 2010, funding from all federal government sources, including NIH, totaled $396.4 million. Funding from industry reached $43.3 million; non-profit organizations provided $33.2 million; state and local governments provided $1.7 million; and other sources contributed $6.7 million.

In addition to tracking NIH awards by federal fiscal year, the Medical School also tracks sponsored expenditures by year “ a measure of how the awarded dollars are actually spent during the fiscal year. In U-M fiscal year 2010, Medical School research expenditures for all types of sponsors totaled $435.5 million, an increase of 15.7 percent over the prior fiscal year and the largest increase in recent years at the U-M Medical School.

SOURCE University of Michigan Medical School