Stony Brook is Announced as one of the Ten Largest NIH Grant Winners in New York State

ALBANY , N.Y. – On November 2nd, Michael J. Relyea, Executive Director of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) announced Stony Brook as among the top ten New York 's colleges, universities, medical research centers, and biotechnology companies awarded funding in 2005 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Having received $64,960,000 from NIH in 2005, Stony Brook ranked 9 th among the 10 New York institutions, which included in order: Columbia University , Cornell University , Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the University of Rochester , Yeshiva University, New York University, Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University, and SUNY Buffalo.

New York State tied two other states in leading the nation, with the 10 New York institutions ranking among the top 100 institutions nationwide in terms of the amount of grants received.

More than 200 academic institutions, not-for-profit research centers, and life science companies in every region in New York participated in NIH sponsored research in 2005. These organizations received a total of nearly 4,900 life science-related research grants. A record of $2.02 billion in funding was awarded to all the New York institutions, beating the previous record of $1.95 billion set in 2004.

“The record surge of new funding to our world-class universities, medical research centers and biotech companies will spur development of important new biotechnology discoveries that in turn will foster the creation of new jobs for New Yorkers,” said Executive Director Relyea.

The NIH is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research and one of the world's foremost medical research centers. The NIH states that their goal is “to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.” Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world.