Lab suppliers marketing life science products and lab products in California may want to take a closer look at the wealth of funding available at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. has put together an article spotlighting NIH, NSF and other research funding statistics at the university that prove how well funded the University of California, Los Angeles market is. If these funding statistics sound attractive, Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. encourages lab suppliers to consider attending our UCLA life science marketing events.
According to the University of California, Los Angeles website, UCLA has received 1 billion dollars every year for the past three years for research projects. Their research webpage states: “At UCLA, our 290 medical research centers and distinctive institutes are defining the role of a great research university in the 21st century. After all, this is where the Internet was born. Where desalination was developed in its first practical form. And where technology is reshaping our world — from software clouds that monitor electric vehicle charging stations to devices that deliver transplant organs warm and beating.”
In 2012, the NIH awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $367.2 million in research funding. For the convenience of our readers, we have put together a list of the top NIH-funded departments at UCLA organized by department name, number of awards received and total funding awarded. For a full list of departments receiving NIH funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, please visit the NIH website.
2012 NIH Life Science Funding at UCLA
- Biochemistry – 36 awards, $13.4 million
- Biology – 1 award, $476,347
- Biomedical Engineering – 3 awards, $818,581
- Biostatistics and Other Math Sciences – 5 awards, $1.1 million
- Internal Medicine – 149 awards, $92.1 million
- Microbiology – 42 awards, $13.9 million
- Pharmacology – 12 awards, $5.6 million
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In addition to receiving a great deal of NIH funding, the University of California, Los Angeles also received $58.4 million from the NSF in 2012. The top-funded life science research project concerned biological infrastructure and received $3.4 million. The project was titled “Predictive Toxicology Assessment and Safe Implementation of Nanotechnology in the Environment.” For more detailed information on NSF funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, please visit the NSF website.
If you are a lab supplier interested in selling lab products and life science products at University of California, Los Angeles life science marketing events, Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. invites you to attend our Los Angeles Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event on October 10th, 2013. Last year, the Los Angeles Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ attracted 642 attendees. 156 of these attendees were purchasing agents, professors and post docs, and 86 were lab managers. The visitors came from 51 different research buildings and 87 departments across campus. How many days of canvassing the University of California, Los Angeles campus would it take to meet so many potential leads? Our life science marketing events offer introductions to hundreds of researchers within the space of a few hours.
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is a full-service science research marketing and events-planning company that has been organizing life science marketing events at top research universities across the country for 20 years. If you are interested in working to sell lab products and life science products at other life science marketing in different parts of the country, we encourage you to view our 2013 calendar of events. For more information on our Los Angeles Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event, or to view more detailed funding statistics for the University of California, Los Angeles, click on the button below.
