Dept. of Pediatrics, Sokol Rank No. 1 in NIH Funding Grants
Department of Pediatrics Jan 3, 2014The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research recently compiled the annual funding data from the National Institutes for Health (NIH).
The Department of Pediatrics ranked No. 1 among medical school departments of pediatrics in total NIH funding for 2013, with $43.2 million. Case Western Reserve University ($30.4 million) Vanderbilt University ($28.5 million) rounded out the top three.
Ronald J. Sokol, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), ranked No. 1 as the principal investigator with most funding assigned to a department of pediatrics ($15.5 million).