Faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy brought in $36.3 million in extramural research funding in 2016, ranking second among the nation’s schools of pharmacy according to data compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The School had 53 investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health, more than any pharmacy school in the country.
The School also led the nation’s pharmacy schools in the total number of investigators funded from federal sources with 60 and funded from all sources with 87.
The School was first in funding awards from sources other than the federal government at $8.8 million.
“I am very proud of our faculty and offer my sincerest appreciation and congratulations to them for their success,” said Robert Blouin, Pharm.D., dean of the School and director of its Eshelman Institute for Innovation. “These research awards translate directly into better treatments and better health-care practices that improve the health and lives of patients and their families all over the country and the world.”
The 2016 total represent a 34.6 percent increase over the 2015 amount of $27.0 million in total research funding in 2015. Over the past ten years, total research funding has grown 205.6 percent and is up 782 percent since Dean Blouin began his tenure in 2003.