UCSF finishes 2nd to Johns Hopkins in 2011 NIH research funding, with $533 million

UC San Francisco received $532.8 million in research funding last year from the National Insitutes of Health, placing it second to Johns Hopkins University, officials said Thursday.
The two major biomedical research centers typically finish the year in that order or close to it, but UCSF boasts that it once again had the best NIH funding total of any public U.S. university, finishing ahead of University of Michigan ($467.4 million) and the University of Washington ($455.8 million).