Useful Stats: Top 100 Cities for NIH FY 2002 Funding

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released a table presenting the top 100 cities for NIH awards in FY 2002. Boston and New York City are the only two cities to receive more than $1 billion in NIH funding. Boston’s lead shrank from $140 million in FY 2001 to $14 million in 2002.

There are additional changes in ranking among other top cities, but longer-term data is needed to determine how much real movement there is in the distribution of NIH funding. For FY 2002, Philadelphia ranks third at $730 million. Baltimore, San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles, Houston, Cambridge (Mass.) and San Francisco round out the top 10. Forty-six cities garnered more than $100 million of NIH awards in FY 2002, compared to only 38 in both 2001 and 2000.

This is the third annual report NIH has prepared on a local level, providing a useful measure for tech-based economic developers interested in their region’s performance in NIH research. The FY 2002 table presents the distribution of NIH awards across research grants, training grants, fellowships, R&D contracts, and other.

The tables for FY 2002, 2001 and 2000 data, respectively, are available at:

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/top100fy02.htm

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/citytop100fy01.htm

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/top100fy2000.txt