School Notes: School of Medicine
May/June 2025

YSM ranks third in US for NIH funding

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) now ranks third in the nation for total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, according to the newest rankings released by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR). In the federal fiscal year 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, YSM researchers garnered a total of $598,157,843 in awards. This is an increase of nearly 5 percent from the prior year. BRIMR is a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina that compiles medical school rankings in NIH funding each year. 

Several YSM departments ranked first in NIH funding compared to their peers across the country. These include the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Comparative Medicine, as well as the Department of Psychiatry, which rose from ranking second in 2023. This was the final year that Yale School of Public Health was included in YSM’s funding, as it is now an independent school. Its funding ranked third among public health departments in the country at $42,453,840.

Brown reappointed YSM dean

Nancy J. Brown ’81, the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Medicine and C. N. H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale, has been reappointed for a second term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine (YSM), President Maurie McInnis ’96PhD and Provost Scott Strobel announced. Her second five-year term begins July 1. The reappointment recognizes Brown’s success over the past five years in leading the advancement of the school’s mission and in elevating its reputation nationally and globally, McInnis and Strobel wrote in a message to the Yale community. 

“Yale is fortunate to have brought on such a distinguished leader, scientist, and clinician in March 2020—just moments before the start of a global health crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic,” they wrote. “We are thankful for Nancy’s leadership and guidance in helping the school, university, and medical community navigate this complex time.”