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RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Tampa Bay is fortunate to have a core group of outstanding institutions driving bioscience research and industry in the region. Those institutions include Tampa-based University of South Florida (USF), which has a 2004-2005 operating budget of more than $1.3 billion.
USF has about 12,500 employees, of whom nearly 3,000 are faculty or adjuncts. USF's fall 2004 student enrollment totaled 42,590, making the 45-year-old school the second largest state university in Florida. USF offers over 200 degree programs and has awarded over 203,000 cumulative degrees. Research funding at USF has skyrocketed in recent years, topping $300 million in 2004, with the lion's share supporting research with the USF College of Medicine (page within a page link to USF College of Medicine).
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute on USF's main Tampa campus is one of 40 National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Centers. Opened in 1986, Moffitt now has more than 6,000 annual patient admissions, 200,000 outpatient visits and revenues of approximately $260 million. Moffitt has about 2,400 employees, (including some 700 researchers). Federally supported genomics research is a Moffitt specialty.
Located adjacent to the USF campus and affiliated with USF's College of Medicine, James A. Haley VA Medical Center is a 327-bed tertiary care teaching hospital that also has 180 nursing home care beds at the Tampa location. Research at Haley has included work done along with seven VA or military sites involved in ongoing brain injury and research on the molecular causes of drug addiction. Residency training programs are provided to 130 residents in most of the medical and surgical subspecialties.
The Tampa Shriner's Hospital, also located on the University of South Florida campus, is a 60-bed facility that has treated over 30,000 children with orthopedic problems since 1985. Research involves musculo-skeletal problems affecting children, including congenital orthopedic deformities, diseases of the bones, joints and muscles and orthopedic conditions resulting from traumatic injuries.
The private University of Tampa (UT), located just west of downtown Tampa, has nearly 5,000 students, including more than 500 graduate students. UT has started new biochemistry and chemistry BS/MBA degree programs, which allow students to earn undergraduate degrees in either biochemistry or chemistry and at the same time an MBA degree in only five years of study. This program is unique in the Tampa Bay area.
The Byrd Alzheimer's Research Center, which is being built on the USF campus, will be the largest freestanding institute in the world devoted exclusively to understanding and curing Alzheimer's disease. The Byrd institute, created in 2002 by the state legislature, has already awarded more than $2 million in grants to Florida researchers.
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