{"id":30061,"date":"2026-04-14T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=30061"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:07:14","slug":"geisel-school-of-medicine-and-dartmouth-health-rise-in-2025-nih-funding-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/geisel-school-of-medicine-and-dartmouth-health-rise-in-2025-nih-funding-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health Rise in 2025 NIH Funding Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health both rose in the\u00a0recently released 2025 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) <\/strong>rankings<\/a>, which assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding across 145 medical schools and their departments, as well as independent hospitals across the United States.<\/p>\n

In the latest BRIMR rankings, Geisel\u2019s Department of Microbiology and Immunology (M&I) has ranked\u00a09th nationally<\/strong>\u00a0for NIH funding in microbiology and immunology programs in the United States. The department expanded its NIH-funded research portfolio to\u00a0$19.3 million<\/strong>, representing a\u00a0$2.5 million increase<\/strong>\u00a0compared with the 2024 BRIMR report. This growth underscores the department\u2019s continued strength in securing competitive federal research support and advancing discovery in microbiology and immunology.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this tough funding environment, it\u2019s especially gratifying to see some significant growth through faculty recruitments and some team science proposals coming to fruition,\u201d said David Leib, PhD, chair of Microbiology and Immunology. \u201cIt\u2019s also due to the creativity, teamwork, and dogged persistence of the M&I faculty and scientists in their labs\u2014it\u2019s very exciting to break into the top ten nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department\u2019s top 10 national ranking contributed to broader gains for Geisel in the 2025 BRIMR report. Overall, the medical school garnered over $80 million in NIH grant funding in 2025, marking a $22 million year-over-year gain in extramural research support and raising its overall ranking six spots in the overall ranking. Geisel is the smallest medical school by enrollment in the top 70.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time of real challenges for biomedical research funding, the BRIMR rankings underscore the resilience and momentum of Geisel\u2019s research enterprise. They are a testament to the excellence of our investigators and to a research culture that continues to advance discovery across disciplines,\u201d said Steve Leach, MD, interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Geisel\u2019s clinical partner,\u00a0Dartmouth Health<\/strong>, also demonstrated notable momentum in the 2025 BRIMR rankings. Dartmouth Health climbed to\u00a025th among freestanding hospitals\u00a0and surpassed\u00a0$20 million in NIH funding, representing a doubling of NIH support since 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearchers at Dartmouth Health have been extraordinarily productive in this difficult funding environment,\u201d said Steve Bernstein, chief research officer at Dartmouth Health and senior associate dean of clinical and translational research at Geisel. \u201cOur investigators are bringing in more grants, including large and more complex grants, like center grants and institutional training grants. It\u2019s great to be recognized in the Blue Ridge rankings, and for Dartmouth Health to contribute to the vigor and success of the One Dartmouth research enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the Geisel School of Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1797, the\u00a0Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>strives to improve the lives of the communities it serves through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The Geisel School of Medicine is renowned for its leadership in medical education, healthcare policy and delivery science, biomedical research, global health, and in creating innovations that improve lives worldwide. As one of America\u2019s leading medical schools, Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.<\/p>\n

About Dartmouth Health<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dartmouth Health<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0New Hampshire\u2019s only academic health system and the state\u2019s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by\u00a0U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children\u2019s, which includes the state\u2019s only children\u2019s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 30 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health both rose in the\u00a0recently released 2025 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) rankings, which assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding across 145 medical schools and their departments, as well as independent hospitals across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1,8],"tags":[1342,1341],"class_list":["post-30061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-research","tag-brimr-rankings","tag-medical-research","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Feature-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-7OR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30061"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30075,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061\/revisions\/30075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}