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Grants funding Alzheimer's disease, global health and opioid addiction research were among the largest NIH awards to the IU School of Medicine during federal fiscal year 2023.

Top 10 largest NIH grants funding research in 2023

Liana Apostolova works with a LEADS study participant.

Liana Apostolova, MD, MS, works with a LEADS study participant. In 2023, the top five largest NIH grants to the IU School of Medicine supported Alzheimer's disease research.

During federal fiscal year 2023, Indiana University School of Medicine investigators received over $243 million in National Institutes of Health research funding — bringing the school’s national NIH funding ranking to No. 13 among all public medical schools and No. 29 among all schools in the United States, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

Blue Ridge is a nonprofit organization that annually ranks U.S. medical schools by NIH grants awarded each federal fiscal year. The NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, and the 2023 federal fiscal year was Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023.

Across the 27 centers and institutes that make up the NIH, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) were the largest sources of NIH grant funding to IU School of Medicine researchers in 2023 — with nearly $71.8 million from the NIA, over $30.8 million from the NHLBI and nearly $25.5 million from the NIDDK.

The IU School of Medicine was also among the U.S. medical schools receiving the largest amounts of funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the NIA and the NIDDK — ranking No. 3 in NIAAA funding among all medical schools in the country, No. 6 in NIA funding and No. 20 in NIDDK funding.

Read on for a list of the school’s largest NIH grant awards of 2023.

1. Early Onset AD Consortium – the LEADS Study

2. National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD)

3. IU/JAX/PITT MODEL-AD Center

4. IU School of Medicine Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Center (TREAT-AD)

5. National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD)

6. Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI)

7. Structure of amyloid fibrils in human neurodegenerative diseases and aging

8. East Africa International Epidemiology Database to evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Regional Consortium

9. The Indiana University-Ohio State University Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics Data, Model, Knowledge, and Research Coordination Center

10. Multimodal Fetal and Placental Imagine and Biomarkers of Clinical Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder

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Andrea Zeek

Andrea works closely with IU School of Medicine researchers and leaders, as well as her colleagues in the Office of Strategic Communications and Visual Media, to elevate the school's research reputation. She has a master's degree in health and science journalism and over 10 years of experience in higher ed communications and marketing, including roles focused on media relations, brand marketing, science writing and internal communications. Before joining higher ed, Andrea worked as a newspaper reporter in Indiana.

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