Funding Growth Fuels Discovery
Dramatic growth in research funds flowing to Cincinnati Children’s has fueled a decade-long advance in research activity here.
Sponsored funding has more than tripled from nearly $49 million in 2000 to more than $173 million in 2011. We now rank among the top two medical centers nationwide receiving pediatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), our largest funding source.
We also receive support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense and several other federal and state agencies. More than 90 nonprofit foundations provide more than $18 million a year, including the Gates Foundation and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Cincinnati Children’s also benefits from significant internal funding support, especially for young researchers. An endowment established here in 1931 by William Cooper Procter, an early president of the Procter & Gamble Co., still bears fruit today.
