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Useful Stats: Funding Provided by NIH Grants per State, 2002-2006
In the 2002 report Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the U.S., Joseph Cortright and Heike Mayer suggested it would take more than a decade for biotech investment strategies to yield fruit - as measured by NIH funding and biocommercialization efforts. On the state level, with five years of NIH research funding data now available, some states can boast real percentage and actual dollar changes in the amount of NIH funding captured.
Since total NIH funding peaked during the 2002-2006 period before beginning several years of nongrowth or decline in actual awards made, the gains in some states means other states saw declines.
SSTI has prepared a table showing the yearly total amount from NIH grants directed to each state from 2002 to 2006, the percent change over that period, and the rank of that change. The total amount of NIH grants in the U.S. in 2002 was $18.9 billion, gradually increasing every year to $23.1 billion in 2005. In 2006, this amount fell to $20.8 billion.
Among the states, five had totals larger than $1 billion in 2006: California at $3.1 billion, Massachusetts at $2.2 billion, New York at $1.9 billion, Pennsylvania at $1.4 billion, and Texas at $1.1 billion.
>From 2002 to 2006, West Virginia experienced the largest percent increase in NIH funding - 48.1 percent - from $15.2 million in 2002 to $22.6 million in 2006. South Dakota, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Nebraska finished out the top five in percent increases over this period. Twenty-six of the states experienced increases larger than 10 percent from 2002 to 2006.
Eleven states and the District of Columbia experienced a percentage decrease in NIH funding during the five year period. It is interesting to note, none of those 12 states had significant statewide biotechnology initiatives in place during the study period.
To see the state breakouts for NIH grants going back to 1998, which includes the projects funded for each Congressional district, visit: http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/State_Congressional/StateOverview.cfm