NIH Grants Awarded to Departments of Family Medicine From 2002 to 2006, and Distributions of Family Medicine Totals by Number of Grants
| Family Medicine and NIH Totals and Percentages | Grants 2002 | Grants 2003 | Grants 2004 | Grants 2005 | Grants 2006 | Total Grants 2002–2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K = research career programs; NCCAM = National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; NCI = National Cancer Institute; NHLBI = National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; NIA = National Institute on Aging; NIAAA = National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; NICHD = National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NIDA = National Institute on Drug Abuse; NIDDK = National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; NIEHS=National Institute of Environmental health Sciences; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NIMH = National Institute of Mental Health; R = research projects; Univ = university. | ||||||
| Note: Percentages are columns percentages and may not sum to 100% because of rounding error; only distributions for number of grants are presented—distributions for grant dollars were essentially similar and available in the Supplemental Appendix, available online at http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/6/6/534/DC1. | ||||||
| a Includes 11 institutes or centers for a total of 21 awarding grants to department of family medicine over the 5 years; b Includes U (cooperative agreements), P (research program projects and centers), T (training programs), G (resource programs), and S (research-related programs); c Physician = medical degree (MD or DO) only, scientist = doctor of philosophy (PhD), doctor of science (ScD, DSc), or doctor of public health (DrPH) only; other includes principal investigators with only bachelor’s- or master’s-level training, but no doctoral degrees; d Competing continuations, supplements, and change of grantee or training institution; e Department at a top-20 institution for number of NIH grant awards; f Department at a top-10 institution for number of NIH grant awards; g Includes 53 additional academic institutions. | ||||||
| Family medicine total grant dollars received, $ (in millions) | 25.6 | 37.9 | 34.8 | 43.5 | 44.6 | 187 |
| NIH total grant dollars awarded, $ (in millions) | 16,900 | 18,500 | 19,700 | 20,300 | 20,200 | 95,300 |
| % of total NIH grant dollars awarded to family medicine | 0.15 | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.20 |
| Family medicine total grants received, No. | 89 | 118 | 131 | 146 | 154 | 638 |
| NIH total grants awarded, No. | 43,520 | 46,081 | 47,464 | 47,345 | 46,797 | 231,207 |
| % of total NIH grants awarded to family medicine | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.33 | 0.28 |
| Family medicine total received No. of grants | ||||||
| By institute or center, % | ||||||
| NCI | 21 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 29 | 26 |
| NCCAM | 10 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 |
| NHLBI | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 11 |
| NIMH | 8 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 9 |
| NIDA | 13 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| NIDDK | 3 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| NICHD | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| NIA | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| NIAAA | 9 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| NIEHS | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Othera | 11 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| By activity code, % | ||||||
| R | 71 | 75 | 72 | 63 | 61 | 68 |
| K | 21 | 19 | 24 | 29 | 29 | 25 |
| Otherb | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| By principal investigator type,c % | ||||||
| Physician | 48 | 51 | 56 | 54 | 49 | 52 |
| Scientist | 37 | 36 | 32 | 35 | 39 | 36 |
| Physician-scientist | 12 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| Other | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| By application type, % | ||||||
| Noncompeting continuation | 65 | 54 | 63 | 61 | 68 | 62 |
| New | 20 | 36 | 28 | 31 | 25 | 28 |
| Otherd | 15 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 9 |
| By department of family medicine, % | ||||||
| Univ of California, San Diegoe | 7 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 |
| Univ of Wisconsin | 9 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Univ of Michiganf | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Univ of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Univ of Arizona | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| Univ of New Mexico | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Univ of Washingtonf | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Case Westerne | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Univ of Pennsylvaniaf | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hille | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Otherg | 56 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 52 | 53 |