With more than $5.5 million in 2018 research funding from the National Institutes of Health, UAB comes in at No. 22, nationally, among the 75 other departments of surgery recently ranked by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Jumping seven spots since Blue Ridge’s 2017 rankings, the UAB Department of Surgery saw a roughly 59-percent increase in NIH funding since last year when it placed No. 29.
UAB as a whole placed No. 23 on Blue Ridge’s ranking of universities who received NIH funding in 2018, with nearly $300 million. About $233 million of that total was awarded to the School of Medicine, which came in at No. 21 on Blue Ridge’s list of the country’s medical schools, up from No. 31 just five years ago.