IU's Commitment to Indiana's Future
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A study from the Brookings Institution, a top think tank, showed that the top biotechnology business centers like Boston and San Diego also received the most biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Here's the connection between NIH research grants and biotech jobs: Research produces discoveries that get turned into ideas that lead to new products, companies, and jobs.
Of the 14 top biotechnology centers areas indicated below, 13 of them are also the top recipients of NIH grants. The Indiana Life Sciences Initiative will help “put Indiana on the map” of biotech hotspots.
With support for the Indiana Life Sciences Initiative from the next two-year state budget, IU will bring nearly 100 new life sciences researchers to Indiana. With state support for the Initiative in the next decade, IU plans to recruit nearly 500 of the nation’s top life sciences researchers to work in Bloomington, at the School of Medicine and IUPUI, and at IU’s eight regional centers for medical education.
A recent report from the Battelle Memorial Institute identified Indiana as one of the nation’s top four life sciences leaders based on the number and concentration of life sciences jobs. Between 1998 and 2005, IU’s research funding from the two primary federal life sciences sources—the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation Biology Doctorate—increased by two thirds (68 percent). Currently, IU ranks seventh among Big Tenuniversities in terms of NIH/NSF biology funding.
