Aug. 2, 2024 — The University of Florida College of Medicine obtained more than $372 million to conduct research during fiscal year 2024 — the highest of any college on campus.

“This success is a testament to our dynamic, innovative, and forward-thinking researchers,” said Azra Bihorac, M.D., M.S., the R. Glenn Davis, M.D., Dialysis Clinic, Inc. Professor of Nephrology and senior associate dean for research at the UF College of Medicine. “We will continue to foster bold collaborations, empower our resilient community, streamline and improve our research infrastructure, and transform research though our investigator focused programs and services.  This allows our amazing faculty to do what they do best — to accelerate science in ways that improve health for all.  Our faculty is a strength to the university and the broader community.  I’m so proud to support and be part of this amazing community.”

The research spending data is based on UF’s response to the National Science Foundation’s annual Higher Education Research and Development, or HERD, Survey, which is the national standard in comparing research spending among the hundreds of universities around the country. The numbers reflect spending and awards for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.

Overall, university faculty conducted a record $1.26 billion in research during this time frame.

At the College of Medicine, investigative teams have conducted crucial research across more than two dozen departments. Significant projects expenditures in the past year include:

• Over $5 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to fund research comparing therapies for intracranial vascular atherostenosis
• $4.2 million for the development of a new treatment against drug-resistant bacterial infections
• $3.1 million from the National Institute on Aging for the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
• Over $2.8 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network, which unites researchers, clinicians, patients, and stakeholders across Florida and in select Georgia and Alabama cities to address some of today’s biggest health challenges
• $3.9 million from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium Coordinating Center in the Department of Physiology and Aging

In 2023, the UF College of Medicine achieved record NIH funding, totaling more than $169 million. Additionally, four clinical programs at the college — the Department of Neurology and Department of Neuroscience under a combined neurosciences category, the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery, and the Department of Surgery — ranked among the top 5 in funding nationally. Ten clinical programs ranked in the top 20 nationally for funding among public institutions.