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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's research grants and contracts totaled $716 million in fiscal 2009, the largest amount to date. This tally is up 5.6 percent over the $678 million received last year, and more than double the amount from a decade ago.
The contracts and grants come primarily from the federal government - especially the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation. The NIH is traditionally the University's largest source of research funding. The School of Medicine attracted the largest proportion of research funding, $349.6 million, or 48.8 percent of UNC-Chapel Hill's total.
Carolina faculty also showed a strong performance in attracting new federal research funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, nearly $20 million through the end of July.
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(Source: Office of Sponsored Research. Updated: 8/2009.)
Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Smithies, along with Mario R. Capecchi of the University of Utah’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sir Martin J. Evans of the United Kingdom, shared the 2007 Nobel Prize "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."
The achievement marks the pinnacle of a scientific career for Smithies, a
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member for 19 years, containing numerous honors and
two major innovations that have fundamentally changed the science of genetic
medicine and laid the foundation for today’s research into gene therapy. Smithies
is the first full-time Carolina faculty member to win a Nobel Prize.
(Source: UNC News Services. Updated: 05/2008.)
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