Philadelphia Ranks Fourth in 2004 NIH Funding; Pittsburgh Twelfth

Despite a decrease of $44.6 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding from fiscal year 2003, Boston held the top spot in total NIH funding for FY 2004, maintaining its lead over New York. The two cities had $1.57 billion and $1.25 billion, respectively.

Baltimore moved up to third place in the annual ranking after receiving a significant increase of $70.3 million in NIH funding. That resulted in Philadelphia placing fourth with $824.6 million. Pittsburgh with $447.9 million ranked twelfth behind Seattle, La Jolla, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston respectively.

Using NIH data, SSTI has crafted a table ranking the top 100 cities for FY 2004 NIH funding. The table is available at www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/022006t.htm.

Cities within major metro areas are listed separately when their figures are large enough. For instance, individual rankings are provided for La Jolla and San Diego; Boston and Cambridge; the Bay area of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley; and Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Monica and Arcadia.

As seen in the top four rankings, funding levels can vary significantly between years. NIH Top 100 Cities award data for previous years can be found at:

• FY 2003: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/top100fy03.htm
• FY 2002: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/top100fy02.htm
• FY 2001: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/citytop100fy01.htm
• FY 2000: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/top100fy2000.txt
  
  

Additional NIH awards and statistics are available at: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/awardtr.htm.

Source: State Science and Technology Institute