I’m pleased to announce that the latest GrantCard report for NSF biomedical fundees at Stanford is now available. As always, NSF reports for Stanford and UCSF are offered free of charge and can be accessed via Tools/Create sales lead report. An account (also free) is required.

Stanford University NSF grantees for week of April 13 2009

It’s interesting to see how few UCSF NSF fundees there are, compared to Stanford (see table below), even though UCSF is a much larger institution than Stanford. This is why UCSF receives far more funding overall in the life sciences, even though in 2008 the average funding per PI was $147,080 vs $32,789 for Stanford and UCSF, respectively, according to ResearchScorecard’s data.

This difference in NSF funding presumably reflects the greater extent of basic research life sciences research at Stanford, whereas UCSF is presumably more clinically oriented. I emphasize the presumptive nature of those statements because I must confess that I have yet to scrutinize the nature of biomedical research between the two institutions, but when I do I’m sure I’ll find all sorts of interesting differences.