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UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX · School Of Medicine

NIH Rank #58Med School Rank #41

NIH Funding · FY2025

Total Funding
$186.5M
Fiscal year 2025
Grants Awarded
367
Active NIH grants
Funded PIs
412
Principal investigators
National Rank
#58
Among 2,359 institutions

Funding & rank history

NIH funding totals and national rank by fiscal year.

Top departments by funding

Department-level NIH funding breakdown for UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in FY2025.

DepartmentFundingGrantsPIsNational Rank
Internal Medicine/Medicine$59.8M97124
Radiation-diagnostic/Oncology$28.3M6165
Microbiology/Immun/Virology$16M2226
Miscellaneous$13M2935
Surgery$10.6M1927#15
Biostatistics & Other Math Sci$8.9M1824
Genetics$5.9M1613#35
Pathology$5.1M1014#42
Biology$5.1M1214
Obstetrics & Gynecology$3.8M1015
Public Health & Prev Medicine$3.6M814
Anesthesiology$3M86#24
Pharmacology$3M77#74
Psychology$3M55
Pediatrics$1.3M33#64
Neurosurgery$1.3M33#39
Veterinary Sciences$1M21
Biochemistry$613.6K12#119
Plastic Surgery$507.9K12
Biomedical Engineering$369.4K11#70

Showing top 20 of 22 departments by funding.

Top funded principal investigators

Highest-funded PIs at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center based on NIH grant totals.

#1
Linghua Wang
3 grants
$5.2M
total funding
#2
Stephen Y Lai
9 grants
$5.1M
total funding
$4.2M
total funding
$4.1M
total funding
$4.1M
total funding
#6
Mingyao Li
1 grant
$4.1M
total funding
$3M
total funding
$3M
total funding
#9
Kunal Rai
2 grants
$2.9M
total funding
#10
Wen Jiang
4 grants
$2.8M
total funding