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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2017 Jun;265(6):1053–1059. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002009

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Steady decline in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of surgical research and in the prevalence of basic science in academic surgery. NIH award data for fiscal years 2006 to 2014 were obtained from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Values include direct and indirect costs, but exclude research and development contracts. Values represent the top 25 US medical schools that receive the most NIH funding. Departments of Surgery funding relative to total institutional funding (A) and to Departments of Medicine (B) are shown. The number of basic science abstracts submitted to the ASC from 2011 to 2015 is shown (C), as well as the proportion of accepted basic science abstracts relative to all abstracts presented each year (D). Values are presented as percentages for (A), (B), and (D), as well as the number of abstracts in (C).