Vanderbilt University has claimed the lion’s share of stimulus funds spent on health research in Tennessee to date.
Under the recovery program, the National Institutes of Health have awarded 260 grants in Tennessee. Of those, 154 went to projects at Vanderbilt
They range in size from 2-thousand dollars—for the prevention of vein graft failure—to more than 5 million—for a consortium of biologists doing insulin-related research, which is headquartered at the university.
Every grant in the state that tops the million dollar mark is going at least in part to Vanderbilt. One is for a program being jointly run with Meharry Medical College.
Meharry was awarded 17 grants. In Memphis, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center has 37 and St. Jude Hospital was given 29.
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