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University of Mississippi eGrove University of Mississippi News 10-15-2014 UMMC Among Top 10 Medical Schools to See Increase in Research Funding Dustin Barnes University of Mississippi Medical Center Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews Recommended Citation Barnes, Dustin, "UMMC Among Top 10 Medical Schools to See Increase in Research Funding" (2014). University of Mississippi News. 5861. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews/5861 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Mississippi News by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. Search this website … SearchLab manager Zannel Blanchard, front, assists in thetranslational research of Dr. Wael ElShamy, associateprofessor of biochemistry, back. Research at UMMCcontinues to draw in more federal funding, putting theMedical Center among the top 10 in the nation to see anincrease in funding from National Institutes of Healththis year.UMMC Among Top 10 Medical Schools to See Increase inResearch FundingOCTOBER 15, 2014 BY DUSTIN BARNES, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTERJACKSON, Miss. – During one of the mostcompetitive times to access funding from one ofthe nation’s largest research sponsors, theUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center hasreceived more awards and more money than theprevious year.The National Institutes of Health, the primaryfederal agency for biomedical and health-relatedresearch, has been forced to become moreselective in distributing its awards over the lastfew years, a product of cost-cutting amonggovernment agencies.But in that same time, UMMC has managed topull in more funding for its extensive researchprojects, nearly $42 million this fiscal year, a feat placing the university among the top 10 in the nationfor increased percentage of NIH funding. During the last fiscal year, NIH-funded projects at UMMC stoodat $23.1 million.“We are very proud that our NIH funding is on the rise. It gives us incredible prestige and credibility inthe academic community to have that source of funding, and we are going to look forward to doing thatfurther every year,” said Dr. Richard Summers, associate vice chancellor for research at UMMC. “It’s areal challenge because it’s a pretty hard and competitive point right now.”Overall, UMMC received more than $52.1 million this year for research from multiple funding sources,representing an 83 percent increase in research funding from last year.“This success comes from the hard work of the individual researchers at our institution,” said Summers.Researchers such as Dr. John Hall, chair of the department of physiology and biophysics and the leadinvestigator in UMMC’s Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, continue to draw in NIH fundingbecause of the magnitude and potential global impact of his studies.“We were fortunate to receive two major NIH grants this past year,” said Hall, citing an $11.4 million anda $10.3 million grant, both over a five-year period that will continue his team’s research into obesity andcardiovascular and kidney diseases.The second grant comes from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a component of NIH, and isa continuation of a program project grant for cardiovascular studies that has been funded at UMMC for45 years, said Hall.Dr. Thomas Mosley, a UMMC professor of geriatrics and lead researcher at the MIND Center, haspulled in funding from many sources thanks to his research into Alzheimer’s disease.“We’ve been successful and lucky in some ways. We’ve certainly worked hard and we’ve tried to be verystrategic about the institutes where we seek funding,” said Mosley. “Specifically, we try to closelymatch the institute’s priorities.”Mosley said because cohort-studies like his are expensive to run, it’s become increasingly important tocultivate buy-in from multiple institutes within NIH.“So instead of going to just one institute and saying we need a whole lot of support to get this studydone, we look for ways to work across institutes and get multiple partners involved,” said Mosley.The tightening of the purse strings at NIH also has prompted the MIND Center to identify alternativefunding sources, said Denise Lafferty, chief of operations at the center.Read the story …Read the story …Follow us on socialCampus BriefsStudents Learn ‘Real Politics’ inWashington, D.C., Winter SessionOXFORD, Miss. – Eleven University ofMississippi students spent their winterbreak learning about the people who workbehind the scenes of the Americangovernment in Washington, D.C. 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The Federal Reserve’sNews Releases UM COVID-19 Video Gallery University Communications Ole Miss Homepage Ole Miss News BlogFacebookTwitterLin edInEmailCopyLinkSMSPrintFriendlySharFacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTubeChannel“The compound effect comes into play, and one result impacts the other; the NIH funding helped us toget state funding and the state funding and private support can help us get more NIH funding,” saidLafferty.During 2013, Mississippi allocated $3 million to the MIND Center, marking the first time for state fundingat the center, she said.The federal and private funding – for which the MIND Center has raised more than $10 million –encouraged state leaders to pay attention, Lafferty said.The funding from the state and private entities is helping pay for infrastructure projects, which also iscritical in gaining NIH funding, said Lafferty.  “If you don’t have the staff and equipment to be able toprove you can really deliver the results of the grant, then they are less likely to give you the funding.”Even as the future of research funding means finding alternative strategies to obtain it, UMMC and itsresearchers remain committed to the cause, said Summers.“It’s always important to remember that the point of the research mission is not to get grants,” saidSummers. “That’s very important as the fuel for funding the research mission, but the point of theresearch mission is the discovery itself and the discovery in the context of helping the health care ofMississippians. That’s the real main goal.“As long as we have our eyes on the prize of discovery and improving the health care of Mississippians,that’s really what we want to do.”By the numbersFY 2014 – $52,185,653 in research fundingFY 2013 – $28,488,789 in research fundingFY 2014 – $41,995,434 in NIH fundingFY 2013 – $23,137,306 in NIH fundingFY 2014 – 127 awardsFY 2013 – 119 awardsFILED UNDER: APPS-ALUMNI & FRIENDS, APPS-TOP NEWS, FEATURED NEWS, NEWS RELEASES, UNIVERSITYOF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTERRead the story …More Posts from this CategoryRetu rn  to  to p  o f  p a ge Copyright © 2023 · Th e Un iversity  o f  M ississ ip p i

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