UC Davis researchers received a total of $356.9 million in 2001-02, representing a 20 percent increase over 2000-01. Last year was the ninth consecutive year that campus research funding broke the previous year's record.
Federal research awards (at $199.4 million) constituted 56 percent of the campus's total research awards. Slightly more than half of that funding ($100.1 million) comes from the Department of Health and Human Services. (By 2003, the federal government plans to double the amount it spent on research and development in the field of health in 1998, to $26.6 billion.)
The balance of federal funding for the campus comes from the National Science Foundation ($34.3 million), the U.S. Department of Agriculture ($20.2 million), the Department of Energy ($18.2 million), the Department of Defense ($9.1 million) and other federal agencies.
At $60.5 million, state funding accounted for 17 percent of the campus's total research funding, more than doubling from the previous year. UC Davis researchers received $19.3 million for research from UC Office of the President and other University of California campuses, and businesses funded $19.7 million of campus research.
The balance of the research support came from private foundations ($17 million), other institutions of higher education ($12.7 million), charitable organizations ($10 million), agricultural marketing boards ($6.9 million) and other types of institutions.
According to the National Science Foundation's most recent reports (2000), UC Davis ranks 17th among all the nation's universities and colleges in total research and development expenditures. The same reports rank the campus first in the nation in research and development funding in the agricultural sciences. In non-federal research and development expenditures, UC Davis ranks sixth of all the nation's universities and colleges.
"It's gratifying to see the campus's research dollars increasing," says UC Davis Vice Chancellor for Research Barry Klein. "But even more important are the growing reputations of campus researchers who are responsible for the large increase in our funding. We've nurtured and attracted increasing numbers of internationally known investigators here and they're contributing enormously to the campus's mounting prestige in research."
The School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Engineering saw the largest increases in research funding.
The School of Medicine nearly doubled its funding to $100.3 million. Part of the increase came from the inclusion of Marc Schenker's $20.5 million award from the California Department of Health Services. In previous years the grant had been reported as a business contract, though the award funds cancer research.
Professor Katherine Ferrara in the College of Engineering received a $12 million award from the Whitaker Foundation for her project titled "Sensors, Vectors and Systems." The College of Engineering received a total of $52.2 million in research funding, up from $40.7 million the previous year.
The School of Veterinary Medicine received $45.6 million, a 24 percent increase over the $36.9 million the school received in 2000-01.
The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences received $80 million in research funding. The College of Letters and Science received $16.5 million. The Division of Biological Sciences was awarded $25.3 million. The organized research units received $33.5 million. The remainder of the funding went to the Graduate School of Management, the Office of the Provost, Graduate Studies and Student Affairs
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UC Davis researchers submitted $1.4 billion in research proposals last year, which is the same amount they submitted in the previous year.