The University of South Florida received nearly $100 million in life science research funding from the National Institute of Health in 2015.
Key Stats:
2018 Life Science R&D Expenditures: $374,896,000
2020 NIH Funding: $85,987,431
The University of South Florida in Tampa is expanding, this $153 million project with the current construction of the new Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute, which began in late 2017.
In 2015, a USF diabetes researcher was awarded 8 NIH grants totaling $64 million to further his team's investigation into the mechanisms of autoimmunity and disease progression in Type 1 diabetes.
The TEDDY study (The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young), headed by USF professor Jeffrey Krischer, has been awarded a $23.9 million NIH grant.
