The following are the top 10 Physiology Departments* in terms of total NIH awards. The amount of the awards, in millions, is given in parentheses. Institutions in bold are also among the top 25 medical schools in receipt of 2005 NIH research awards.

Vanderbilt University ($27.3)

University of Pennsylvania ($17.3)

Medical College of Wisconsin ($16.3)

Columbia University ($13.3)

Wake Forest University ($13.1)

Oregon Health Sciences University ($12.0)

University of California - San Francisco ($11.8)

Case Western Reserve University ($11.7)

University of Virginia ($10.6)

Northwestern University Medical School ($10.5)