Research Institute by the Numbers

Massachusetts General Hospital operates the largest hospital-based research program in the United States. Here are some facts and figures about our research efforts.

With a budget of nearly $1.2 billion in 2021, Mass General is home to the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the United State. Mass General ranks 1^st among independent hospitals in the amount of annual funding received from NIH, and 8^th among all institutions.

Research at Mass General takes place in 30 departments, centers and institutes across the hospital. The Department of Medicine has the largest research portfolio at 20% of the total. We also have significant research programs taking place in our Thematic Research Centers (14%), the Mass General Cancer Center (10%), Neurology (12%), Radiology (11%), Surgery (5%) and Psychiatry (5%) and many others.

The research community includes more than 9,500 people and covers 1.3M square feet of research space in Boston, Cambridge and Charlestown. We have 2,000 principal investigators and there are 1,500 postdoctoral fellows and 800 graduate students training in research at Mass General at any given time. Over one-third of the 3,000 physicians at Mass General are also conducting research.

To date, more than 124,000 patients have consented to have their blood samples and health histories added to the Mass General Brigham Biobank, so we can learn more about the genetic basis of disease

The Office of the Scientific Director has established the Mass General Research Institute Blog to promote the work of investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Since the inception of the MGH Research Scholars program in 2011, a total of 75 Mass General investigators have received crucial unrestricted funding ($100,000 per year for five years) to support the game-changing ideas that are too early or unproven for traditional forms of funding.

Mass General Outcomes	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20
Licensing Activity	130	133	198	197	145
Material Transfer Agreements	1067	1360	1374	1537	1256
New Disclosures	365	311	366	355	384
IP Applications	910	1091	1643	1593	1483
Issued Patents	339	359	356	629	484
Royalty and Licensing Outcome	$77M	$87.7M	$94.6M	$298M	$142.9M