Lab suppliers working to sell lab products and life science products in southern California will want to take note of the most recent funding statistics at the University of California, Irvine; the University of California, San Diego; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the University of California, Riverside. Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. organizes a number of well-attended life science marketing events at these schools that lab suppliers may want to consider reserving spaces at after reading about the following funding news.
In 2012, the NIH gave the University of California, Irvine $127.1 million in research funding. The top funded life science department was microbiology, which received 20 awards totaling $14.6 million. In 2011, the NIH also ranked the University of California Irvine 49th in the nation for direct plus indirect costs in the life sciences, excluding R&D contracts and ARRA awards. The total figure that year was $119.9 million. In 2012, the University of California, San Diego was awarded $395 million by the NIH, while the University of California, Los Angeles received $367.2 million.
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In 2011, the NIH ranked the University of California, San Diego 7th in the country for direct plus indirect costs in the life sciences, excluding R&D contracts and ARRA awards. The total costs were $396.2 million. The top-funded department at UCLA in 2012 was internal medicine, which received 149 awards totaling $92.1 million. The University of California, Riverside also received $14 million from the NIH in 2012. For a full list of departments receiving NIH funding at these southern California universities, please visit the NIH website.
In addition to receiving NIH funding, the University of California, Irvine also received $38 million from the NSF in 2012. The NSF awarded the University of California, San Diego $70 million and the University of California, Los Angeles $58.4 million in 2012. In 2009, the NSF ranked the University of California, Los Angeles 8th in the country for total R&D expenditures in the life sciences. The total expenditures that year were $657.6 million. The University of California, Riverside received $18.8 million from the NSF in 2012 as well. For more detailed NSF research funding information on southern California universities, please visit the NSF website.
Our University of San Diego life science marketing event is quickly approaching on August 22, 2013. UC San Diego’s website says of its school: “UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to who we are and what we do. Here, students learn that knowledge isn’t just acquired in the classroom—life is their laboratory.”
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If you are a lab supplier interested working to sell lab products and life science products at University of California, San Diego life science marketing events, Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. invites you to attend our semiannual San Diego Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event on August 22nd, 2013. Last year, our San Diego Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event attracted 723 attendees. 224 of these attendees were purchasing agents, professors and post docs, and 77 were lab managers. The visitors came from 69 different research buildings and 76 departments across campus.
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. also invites lab suppliers interested in working to sell lab products and life science products in southern California to attend our Riverside BioResearch Product Faire™ Event on August 21st, 2013; our Irvine BioResearch Product Faire™ Event on October 8th, 2013; our USC Health Sciences BioResearch Product Faire™ Event on October 9th, 2013; and our Los Angeles Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event on October 10th, 2013.
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is a full-service science research marketing and events-planning company that organizes life science marketing events at top research universities across the country. For more information on our southern California life science marketing events, or to view more detailed funding statistics for these universities, click on the buttons below. If you are interested in working to sell lab products and life science products at life science marketing events closer to home, we encourage you to view our 2013 calendar of events.