The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) received the largest amount of extramural funding among the Manoa units at $60 million.
The biorepository has managed samples that have resulted in more than 150 original peer reviewed articles and greater than $25 million total direct costs in extramural funding from 2005 to 2009.
He was awarded extramural funding by SmithKline Beecham, the American Heart Association, NASA and the Department of Defense.
He has set new goals for faculty research that have resulted in significant increases in the number of grant proposals submitted by faculty members and the number of extramural funding received for faculty research.
The extramural funding consists of about 50,000 grants to more than 325,000 researchers at more than 3000 institutions.
Research Growth Initiative (RGI) is a program designed to expand UWM's research enterprise through investment in projects with anticipated return on investment through extramural funding.
The college has a $39 million budget, augmented by $5.5 million in competitively awarded extramural funding.
Here he sought extramural funding for research, supervised undergraduate and graduate students and provided a core molecular biology and biochemistry facility for the Neuroscience Training Program.
His individual and collaborative research projects have received extramural funding from agencies such as NASA and the National Science Foundation.
Overall, extramural funding has increased by 50% over the past ten years.