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The Washington University School of Medicine has one of the finest faculties of any medical school in the nation. Recognized for their distinguished achievements in original research, 14 faculty members are among the fellows of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Seventeen Nobel laureates have been associated with the School of Medicine.
During fiscal year 2008, 141 members of the faculty held individual or career development awards: 100 from the National Institutes of Health, two from Abbott Laboratories, two from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, one from the American College of Gastroenterology, three from the American Diabetes Association, one from the American Geriatrics Society, nine from the American Heart Association, one from the American Society for Nutrition, one from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, one from the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, two from the American Society of Hematology, one from the American Vascular Association, two from Arthritis Foundation, one from the Arthritis National Research Foundation, one from Brown University, ten from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, one from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, two from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, one from the Dermatology Foundation, one from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, one from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, one from The Francis Families Foundation, one from Hope Street Kids, one from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, two from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, two from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, two from the W.M. Keck Foundation, one from the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation, two from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, two from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., two from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation, and one from an anonymous foundation.
The School of Medicine has 20 faculty members with Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) status, a special recognition given to only a few NIH grantees, which provides long-term, uninterrupted financial support to investigators who have demonstrated superior achievement during previous research projects.
In 2008-09, the School employed 1,563 full-time, salaried faculty members in its 20 preclinical and clinical departments. The clinical departments are further strengthened by 1,315 part-time faculty members, a group of physicians who practice their medical specialties in St. Louis and are members of one or more of the staffs of the hospitals in the Washington University Medical Center.
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