UMass Medical School research hits $282M
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UMass Medical School in Worcester
Research spending at UMass Medical School in Worcester hit $282 million in fiscal 2019, a jump of 12% from four years prior.
Across the UMass system, research funding has grown 14% since fiscal 2014 and 40% since fiscal 2009, the university said in releasing the latest year's spending. The system includes the flagship campus in Amherst, where research spending totaled $223 million, and others in Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell. Combined, the campuses spent $684 million last fiscal year on research.
At the medical school, funding has gone toward life science research. At other campuses, it's spread among areas including engineering, geosciences, mathematics, social sciences and computer and information sciences.
Research at the UMass campuses over the past five years, particularly at the medical school, have returned 1,178 invention disclosures, 1,088 patent applications and 382 issued patents. Gross licensing revenue has totaled $323 million, and 50 companies have been spun off from their work.
The UMass Medical School has regularly been among the state's largest recipients of U.S. National Institutes of Health funding, including $155 million in fiscal 2019.
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