{"id":4372,"date":"2016-04-15T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:37:15","slug":"rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Department continues to rank highly for NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the US. In 2015, the Department secured 15.1 million in federal funding and ranks 8th.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); \">We received over $15.1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2015. According to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR), this ranks us eighth among all Biochemistry departments and if considering just public institutions, that would make us the 3rd highest NIH funded biochemistry program. We are proud of our faculty for their hard work and accomplishments!  Of special note is that Ronald Swanstrom ranks eighth among all principal investigators in Biochemistry for total NIH dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brimr.org\/NIH_Awards\/2015\/NIH_Awards_2015.htm\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">http:\/\/www.brimr.org\/NIH_Awards\/2015\/NIH_Awards_2015.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg\" style=\"margin-bottom:5em; \" title=\"SWANSTROM - Ronald\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Ron Swanstrom\" class=\"image-left size-medium wp-image-3713 size-full\"\/> <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swanstrom.web.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><strong><span class=\"xLargeFont\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \">Ron Swanstrom, PhD<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 405px; height: 180px; padding: 10px; float: left;\">\n<p><i><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \">Ranking #8<br \/> <\/span><\/i><br \/> <span class=\"discreet\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>The Department continues to rank highly for NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the US. In 2015, the Department secured 15.1 million in federal funding and ranks 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,24,3,49,4],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news_faculty","tag-news_2016","tag-news_dept","tag-news_slider","tag-recent-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department continues to rank highly for NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the US. In 2015, the Department secured 15.1 million in federal funding and ranks 8th.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Biochemistry and Biophysics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uncbiochemistryandbiophysics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UNC_BCBP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UNC_BCBP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Faculty &amp; Lab News\",\"News_2016\",\"news_dept\",\"news_slider\",\"recent news\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\",\"name\":\"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/\",\"name\":\"UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization\",\"name\":\"UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2017\/06\/BiochemistryAndBiophysics_logo_2c_rgb_v.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2017\/06\/BiochemistryAndBiophysics_logo_2c_rgb_v.png\",\"width\":488,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uncbiochemistryandbiophysics\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/UNC_BCBP\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unc_bcbp\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/unc-dept-of-biochem-biophysics-17a6187b\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics","og_description":"The Department continues to rank highly for NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the US. In 2015, the Department secured 15.1 million in federal funding and ranks 8th.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/","og_site_name":"Biochemistry and Biophysics","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uncbiochemistryandbiophysics\/","article_published_time":"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":284,"height":284,"url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UNC_BCBP","twitter_site":"@UNC_BCBP","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015","datePublished":"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00","dateModified":"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/"},"wordCount":128,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg","keywords":["Faculty &amp; Lab News","News_2016","news_dept","news_slider","recent news"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/","name":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015 | Biochemistry and Biophysics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2018\/07\/swanstrom-ronald.jpeg","datePublished":"2016-04-15T18:50:00+00:00","dateModified":"2018-08-01T14:37:15+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/rank-8th-nationally-in-nih-funding-in-2015\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2015"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/","name":"UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#organization","name":"UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2017\/06\/BiochemistryAndBiophysics_logo_2c_rgb_v.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2017\/06\/BiochemistryAndBiophysics_logo_2c_rgb_v.png","width":488,"height":400,"caption":"UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uncbiochemistryandbiophysics\/","https:\/\/x.com\/UNC_BCBP","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unc_bcbp\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/unc-dept-of-biochem-biophysics-17a6187b\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/author\/"}]}},"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"Faculty &amp; Lab News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/tag\/news_faculty\/"},{"name":"News_2016","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/tag\/news_2016\/"},{"name":"news_dept","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/tag\/news_dept\/"},{"name":"news_slider","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/tag\/news_slider\/"},{"name":"recent news","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/tag\/recent-news\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}