AIDS Researcher Haynes Tops 2007 NIH Grants List

No principal investigator received more grant dollars from the National Institutes of Health in 2007 than Duke's Barton F. Haynes, M.D., according to a list compiled by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.

Haynes, who is Frederic M. Hanes professor of medicine and immunology at Duke University Medical Center and director of the Center for HIV AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), received $46,482,429, putting him atop the 2007 ranking of principal investigators.

In the list of grant-receiving institutions, Duke ranked six in NIH grants, with $372,132,106 coming in during 2007.

Ranking first was Johns Hopkins University, with 2007 NIH grants totaling $566,516,255.

Read more about the work at the CHAVI at: http://www.chavi.org/