Series: Funding Rankings · Pharmacy

UCSF School of Pharmacy Leads in NIH Funding for 45th Consecutive Year

Wed Feb 26, 2025
Krogan and lab member
Noah Berger

Nevan Krogan, PhD, speaks with a research associate in his lab.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy continues to lead the country in competitive federal research funding among pharmacy schools, capturing $45.8 million in 2024 to fuel life-changing drug discoveries, bioengineering, pharmacokinetics and more.

School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 44th straight year

Mon Mar 18, 2024
women in a laboratory discuss a project.
School researchers netted $36.7M from 65 grants, fueling efforts spanning drug discovery, bioengineering, pharmacokinetics, clinical pharmacy, and more.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 43rd straight year

Mon Feb 20, 2023
Arkin
Elena Graham

Michelle Arkin, PhD, uses a handheld model of a small molecule bound to a protein to illustrate how her research group thinks about drug discovery. Arkin was one of the School of Pharmacy’s top NIH grant earners in 2022.

School research into health, disease, and medicine earned the most NIH research dollars of any U.S. pharmacy school for the 43rd consecutive year.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 42nd straight year

Tue Feb 15, 2022
Ahituv and Inoue
Susan Merrell

Nadav Ahituv, PhD (right), works in his lab with postdoctoral researcher Fumitaka Inoue, PhD.

School research into health, disease, and medicine earned the most NIH research dollars of any U.S. pharmacy school for the 42nd consecutive year.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 41st straight year

Thu Feb 18, 2021
Burchard
Steve Babuljak

Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH

Over $40 million in 2020 NIH funding to the School supported research ranging from the genomics of asthma to new malaria treatments

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 40th straight year

Thu Apr 2, 2020
Ahituv and Inoue
Susan Merrell

Nadav Ahituv, PhD, right, with postdoctoral scholar Fumitaka Inoue, PhD.

School research into health, disease, and medicine earned the most NIH research dollars of any U.S. pharmacy school—for the 40th consecutive year.

School of Pharmacy tops pharmacy schools in NIH funding for 39th straight year

Wed Feb 27, 2019
Kroetz and colleague review the results of an experiment
Elisabeth Fall

Deanna Kroetz, PhD (right) was among dozens of faculty members who contributed to the School of Pharmacy becoming the top recipient of NIH funding among all pharmacy schools in 2018.

Among all U.S. pharmacy schools, the UCSF School of Pharmacy earned the most research funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling nearly $29 million dollars that will support studies spanning the basic to the clinical sciences.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 38th year

Mon Mar 12, 2018
Lei Wang and Nanxi Wang
Susan Merrell

Lei Wang (left), PhD, works with postdoctoral researcher Nanxi Wang, PhD.

A culture of discovery and collaboration among faculty carries potential to “completely shake up their fields of study.”

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 37th year in a row

Mon Mar 27, 2017
UCSF Schools are #1 in National Institutes of Health research funding, School of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, with School of Pharmacy emphasized
For the 37th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States. School researchers were awarded $28.2 million in grants during NIH’s 2016 fiscal year, from October 1, 2015 to...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

Thu Mar 31, 2016
NIH rank graphic
UCSF News
For the 36th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

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