Fiscal Year 2014 Highlights

	Research Organization	Projects
	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	33
	Sandia National Laboratories	32
	Los Alamos National Laboratory	30
	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	28
	Oak Ridge Associated Universities	26
	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	19
	Queens College of the City University of New York	11
	Idaho National Laboratory	9
	Other	33

Overview of Research Projects


• Total non-exempt research projects reported for FY2014 was 221.
• Eighty-five percent of the projects were conducted at DOE facilities, with the remaining 15 percent conducted at non-DOE facilities.
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory had the largest number of projects with 33, followed by Sandia National Laboratories with 32.
• Six research organizations reported international projects including the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF). RERF, located in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, studies health impacts of radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors. RERF reported the largest number of foreign subjects in FY2014.
• One research organization, 4 universities and 1 DOE facility, reported 13 projects as part of the Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP).

	Research Organization	Funding
	Los Alamos National Laboratory	$37,547,730
	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	$22,772,400
	Radiation Effects Research Foundation	$14,000,000
	Sandia National Laboratories	$13,524,604
	Queens College of the City University of New York	$8,597,499
	Oak Ridge Associated Universities	$6,303,517
	Center for Construction Research and Training	$4,575,000
	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	$4,505,100
	Other	$10,447,010

Overview of Funding


• The total research funding reported in FY2014 was $122,272,860.
• 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.

 

Chart 3: Human Subjects By Research Organization

	Research Organization	Human Subjects
	Vanderbilt University	600,000
	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health	277,804
	Los Alamos National Laboratory	213,087
	Radiation Effects Research Foundation	120,000
	Oak Ridge Associated Universities	118,134
	Other	202,364

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.