Research Successes in 2023-24

The Department of Medicine continues to steadily grow its research funding. Total award costs for 2023 were $141.2 million. The department has demonstrated consistent NIH funding & Blue Ridge Rankings over the last 6 years. In 2023, the department’s Blue Ridge ranking was 30.

NIH grant funding for 2023 came in at $61.7 million. The three largest NIH grants awarded to the department this year were:

• IUSM Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Center (TREAT-AD)
  From the NIH-National Institute on Aging for $7.3 million
  To Alan Palkowitz, PhD, Senior Research Professor of Clinical Pharmacology

• East Africa International Epidemiology Database to evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Regional Consortium
  From the NIH-National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases for $3.4 million
  To Kara Wools-Kaloustian, MD, Joe & Sarah Ellen Mamlin Professor of Global Health Research in Infectious Diseases

• Equity Using Interventions for Pain and Depression (EQUIPD)
  From the NIH-National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Strokes for $1.56 million
  To Marianne Matthias, PhD, Senior Research Professor in General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics

Research productivity in the department continue to be exceptional.

The department is responsible for about a third of IU School of Medicine’s total publications and roughly 40% of the school’s high-impact publications. The department produced 1,093 of IU School of Medicine’s 3,439 total publications this year. That included 274 of 699 high-impact publications.