Facts and figures

Facts & figures

(as of fiscal year ending June 30, 2020)

Research

VCU’s research enterprise has grown exponentially in the last decade. This year, of the $335 million in sponsored research, $169 million were federally funded grants.

133 invention disclosures
172 patents filed
16 patents issued
6 copyrights
22 licenses/options

7 startup licenses
145 industry engagements
$2,481,098 licensing revenues
9 faculty startups
10 Proof-of-concept funding

Rankings

Top 100 Research university by National Science foundation
65th In R&D expenditures among public research universities
1 of only 56 public institutions to have both a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center and a clinical and translational science award funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

Highlights and advancements

Leading a $50 million, five-year federal grant to oversee a national study of the long-term impacts of mild traumatic brain injuries or concussions on service members and veterans.

Multiple grants expanded Massey Cancer Center’s research on finding causes and cures for various cancers, including pancreatic and triple negative breast cancer, which grows and spreads faster, has limited treatment options and a worse prognosis.

With more than $8 million in federal grants, VCU leads a consortium to focus on how to best provide training and employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A $7.8 million NIH grant renewal to VCU’s Alcohol Research Center is deepening our understanding of the genetic components of alcohol-related disorders.

Backed by a National Institute on Drug Abuse award of nearly $11 million, VCU continues to participate in the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever conducted in the U.S.

VCU remains committed to cultivating STEM talent among racial and ethnic minorities. A decade of nearly $13 million in federal funding strengthens our set of research and training programs to identify and support underrepresented biomedical scientists. VCU is one of only two institutions in the U.S. to offer these programs at all levels of higher education.

Grants totaling $2.28 million from the National Institute of Justice help investigators in the Department of Forensic Science to develop and evaluate new forensic tools.

A $2.5 million grant from the Department of Energy leading to development of next-generation rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.

VCU received $2.5 million in royalty and licensing income from faculty inventions licensed to companies, with some of the funding used to support “proof of concept” funding to mature and validate new innovative technologies.

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