During the current fiscal year, external sponsors have funded awards to Children’s Memorial and the Northwestern University Department of Pediatrics in the amount of $40,860,633. Compared to Fiscal Year 2009, this represents an 11.9 percent increase in total funding. Overall, the research portfolio was balanced with funding coming equally for both fundamental laboratory research and from clinic and community based research projects.

*Other includes awards and subcontracts primarily from universities and academic medical centers from non-federal, philanthropic, and other institutional sources.