Developing and Growing Research

For universities, there are only a few big pools of money that provide revenue streams, and one of them is medical research funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, pharmaceutical companies, and related foundations. These research sources provide more than $80 billion annually, and a major portion of that funding is allocated to universities. Therefore, universities and health science schools in particular should position themselves to pursue these sources of funding. Many schools have a history of research productivity while others need essentially to start from the beginning. Remember that research can be performed in education as well as in the basic and clinical sciences.