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Promethean Vision: The story of research at the University – The Michigan Daily

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February 9, 2012

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Promethean Vision: The story of research at the University – The Michigan Daily

Today, the University receives more than $800 million annually in funding from the federal government, a number that represents approximately two-thirds of its total research budget.
Today, the National Institutes of Health and the federal government support the largest part of the University’s $1.2 billion research budget. Last year the NIH alone gave the University more than $570 million for health-related studies.
Forty five percent of the research budget goes to medicine-related studies, 15 percent to engineering, 10 percent to public health and 7 percent to social research.