Department of Surgery Ranks 3rd Nationally in NIH Funding for Surgery Category - Three Surgeon-Scientists Rank in Top 20

The UCSF Department of Surgery now ranks No. 3 nationally in NIH research funding among all academic surgery programs, a stunning rise from 6^th the last time the survey was done. Three Department of Surgery faculty also ranked in the top 20 of all NIH-funded principal investigators nationally in the category of surgery.

The highly respected Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research utilized data from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) to survey U.S. medical schools for their NIH funding levels between October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. UCSF was the top public recipient of NIH funding nationwide. UCSF School of Medicine was also the top recipient of NIH funding among medical schools.

Blue Ridge also looked at NIH funding levels among 76 departments of surgery nationally. UCSF is now ranked third, at $16,261,894, rising from sixth in the last survey, while finishing in the top 4% overall.

Among 534 NIH-funded principal investigators in the category of surgery, three Department of Surgery faculty, breast surgeon Laura J. Esserman, M.D., M.B.A., and transplant surgeons Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D., and Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D., ranked in the top 20, 4th, 8th, and 20th respectively, and as a group in the top 4%.

All three have consistently ranked in the uppermost tier of NIH-funded investigators in the surgery category in recent years. Stock has finished among the top 20 investigators for the past 3 years; Feng for the past 5 years, ranking in the top 10 for four of those years; and Esserman has ranked No. 4 in each of the past three years.

The Department also has other NIH-funded collaborators in programs such as in the Surgical Innovations Program that bring in additional NIH funding.

	Laura J. Esserman, M.D., MBA Professor of Surgery and Radiology Division of General Surgery Alfred A. de Lorimier Endowed Chair in General Surgery Director, UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center Chief, Section of Breast Care Surgery
	Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D.  Professor of Surgery Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program Surgical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant Program Co-Director, Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplant Program Chair, Department of Surgery Research Committee Program, Director, T32 Training Program in Transplant Surgery
	Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D.  Professor of Surgery Division of Transplant Surgery Director, Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program