The newly released 2022 NIH Blue Ridge rankings show that Duke Orthopaedics is again ranked second in the United States for NIH funding for an orthopaedics department. Duke’s School of Medicine as a whole is ranked third in the US. Our continued growth and exceptional work have resulted in a steady rise over the past decade. Additionally, our department has two faculty in the top ten most-funded investigators for members of an orthopaedic department and seven of our faculty in the top 50 most funded.
Please join me in congratulating the following members of our faculty who are PIs on NIH grants: Ben Alman, Gurpreet Baht, Lou DeFrate, Steve George, Christine Goertz, Adam Goode, Matt Hilton, Amy McNulty, Janet Prvu Bettger, and Shyni Varghese; our trainees who are PIs on grants: Abigail Leinroth and John Martin; and the faculty who have funding as co-applicants or collaborators: Chad Cook, Will Eward, Jody Feld, Ming-Feng Hsueh, Maggie Horn, Trevor Lentz, Christopher Lunsford, Amy Pastva, Corey Simon, Jocelyn Wittstein, and Xin Zhang.
15% of our faculty have some degree of NIH funding, showing not only the growth in the magnitude of our funding but the breadth of our work and diversity of participation in pushing forward the future of musculoskeletal and rehabilitation sciences and clinical care.