1. Sunghee Flores October 6, 2011

2.  Awards. Total research funding in FY11 was $23,650,478, an increase of 39% from $16,909,906 in FY10. For the last five years, from FY07 to FY11, research funding has steadily grown. Ref. EPH database

5. Approximately 70% of total external funding comes from NIH. A five year comparison of NIH funding over the last five years is shown in the table below. FY07FY08FY09FY10FY11 NIH award (total costs) $7,023,517$7,935,593$10,001,889$10,753,003$16,258,472 Percent of NIH award from total research $ 63%67%70%63%69% percent change from previous FY 13%26%8%51%

6.  Department of Epidemiology and Public Health is ranked 2 nd among UMB departments in 2010 NIH awards Departments amountspercent 1MEDICINE $ 37,045,79124.0% 2EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE $ 13,905,2969.0% 3MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY $ 13,678,4198.9% 4PEDIATRICS $ 11,394,8697.4% 5PSYCHIATRY $ 8,772,4475.7% 6PHYSIOLOGY $ 8,565,8025.6% 7SURGERY $ 8,459,9425.5% 8BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY $ 7,494,2464.9% 9ANATOMY AND NEUROBIOLOGY $ 6,770,4834.4% 10MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS $ 5,824,5963.8%

7. Public Health and Preventive Medicine within Medical Schools (2010 NIH awards) rankPUBLIC HEALTH & PREV MEDICINEaward amounts % of total award 1YALE UNIVERSITY $ 32,851,11112.1%private 2UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $ 32,423,47211.9%private 3NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $ 14,232,9535.2%private 4UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE $ 13,905,2965.1%public 5UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER $ 12,841,1264.7%private 6WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES $ 12,636,0674.6%private 7PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR $ 11,660,5764.3%public 8UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE $ 10,261,0643.8%private 9UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $ 9,687,1373.6%public 10UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO $ 9,374,0483.4%public

8. Ranked 1 st nationally in the Public Health/Preventive Medicine category NIH funding among Public Universities in FY 2010 Ranked 4 th nationally in the Public Health/Preventive Medicine category NIH funding in FY 2010 Ranked 2 nd among UMB departments in NIH grant funding in FY 2010

9. NIH RePorter http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/2010/NIH_Awa rds_2010.htm