Fiscal Year 2014 Highlights
While exempt projects are included in the individual project sections of the HSRD report, they are currently excluded from the highlights and data trend reports. Once additional data on exempt projects are collected, they will be included in the highlights and data trend reports. Total number of exempt projects reported for FY2014 was 157.
Funding for Research
Overview of Funding
- Funding from DOE decreased to under $55 million in FY2014 from $65 million in FY2013.
Funding from other Federal sources saw a increase from $41 million in FY2013 to $67 million
in FY2014.
- The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), an international project, received $14 million
in funding. RERF studies, funded by DOE and
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
accounted for 68 percent
of international project funding and 11 percent of total funding.
Human Subjects
Chart 3: Human Subjects By Research Organization
Overview of Human Subjects
- A total of 1,667,375 human subjects were involved in DOE-funded, DOE site-related,
or DOE worker-related projects.
- About 32 percent of human subjects were reported by DOE facilities, and 68 percent were reported by non-DOE facilities.
- Vanderbilt University had the largest number of human subjects with a total of 600,000 reported.