The Reporter: February 1996, Vol.7, No.1
P&S's Advanced Ranking

P&S ranks fourth place in the latest federal research funding rankings issued by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Columbia ranked in fifth place for the previous three years.

Based on 1993-94 data, AAMC reports that P&S and its affiliates received $140 million in federal grants and contracts. Total research funding for the Health Sciences Division (including P&S) for the same period was $200 million.

According to Dr. Herbert Pardes, vice president for Health Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia's faculty and research scientific stature attract the funding. "The Columbia faculty is second to none in quality," he says. " In the past f ew years alone, Columbia scientists found a genetic link for partial epilepsy, discovered a genetic connection to Alzheimer's, uncovered the DNA sequencing of Kaposi's sarcoma, and found out how nicotine affects the brain. These were just a few of a long list of advances."