UCD research a record $363.5 million for FY 2005
Colorado Researchers Succeed in Highly Competitive Grants Environment
| Raj Agarwal, PhD, Chapla Agarwal, PhD, Dan Gustafson, PhD, Al Malkinson, PhD and David Ross, PhD, of the CU School of Pharmacy, collectively were awarded more than $12 million in grant funding with $3 million funded during FY 2005. |
The University of Colorado Denver
received a record $363.5 million in sponsored research grants during
fiscal year 2005, indicating that the university’s researchers are
thriving in a highly competitive national quest for public and private research
dollars.
“At more than $363 million in sponsored grants and contracts, UCD is
the largest research institution in the Rocky Mountain region,” said UCD
Chancellor Dr. James Shore. “Bringing outside dollars of this magnitude
to Colorado demonstrates the importance of CU to the state’s economy. Thanks
to the outstanding talents of our faculty – particularly in biomedical
research – we are generating thousands of jobs each year.”
Combined research for the entire University of Colorado system for fiscal year
2005 was $630.3 million.
| David Quissell, PhD, of the CU School of Dentistry, led a successful effort to bring a @1.5 million U24 award from the Dental Institute to enhance dental research infrastructure at the University of Colorado Denver. |
Biomedical and basic science research at the University of Colorado Denver made up the bulk of the research funding at $345 million. A total of 1,618 projects received sponsored funding at HSC in fiscal year 2005, about 97 more than last year, and a 15.2 percent increase in dollars over last year, said John Sladek, PhD, UCD vice chancellor for research.
With funding from the National Institutes of Health and other public and
private entities, UCD faculty are conducting breakthrough research in
a variety
of disciplines including the fields of psychiatry, cancer, genetics, pharmacology,
pediatrics, diabetes, neuroscience, infectious disease, dentistry, obstetrics
and gynecology and others. The CU School of Medicine’s pediatrics and
medicine departments received more sponsored funding than any other UCD
department.
| Paula Riggs, MD, of the CU School of Medicine, received $3.3 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for the Rocky Mountain Regional Clinical Trials Node. |
“
Our faculty continues to lead the country in basic and clinical research. Our
research mission is to advance existing knowledge, develop new knowledge for
the prevention and treatment of human disease, and to improve human health,” Sladek
said. “The standard of excellence our researchers set and the medical
advances they achieve should be a source of inspiration and pride for the
entire medical community and all Coloradans.”
UCD’s downtown Denver campus received 218 sponsored research grants
and contracts totaling $18.6 million during fiscal year 2005, six more
than the previous year. The funds are being used to advance research in
education,
nanotechnology, health disparities, environmental remediation, mathematics,
psychology, public policy, and domestic violence prevention. Funding from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science
Foundation
more than doubled from the previous year.
| Ruth O’Brien, RN, PhD, of the CU School of Nursing, has been involved in the very successful interdisciplinary National Center for Children, Families and Communities at UCD. Dr. O’Brien received a five-year, $1.24 million grant to further study the process of training health care providers to implement evidence-based practice interventions. |
Last year, UCD’s medical researchers at campuses in Denver and
Aurora received 1,521 research grants, totaling more than $299.8 million.
Meanwhile,
the university saw a 4.8 percent spike in sponsored research grant funding
that year. Sladek believes that the move to new, modern facilities is partially
responsible for the 15 percent increase experienced in fiscal year 2005.
As in the past, NIH grants accounted for a majority of all sponsored research
awards for medical researchers during fiscal year 2005, amounting to 63 percent
of all grants received. Another 10 percent came from other federal funding
resources, and 7 percent came from private medical and scientific associations
and foundations. The balance was contributed by hospitals and universities,
industry, and state and local governments.
