AL | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DE | DC | FL | GA | IL | IN | IA | KS | LA | ME
MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND
OH | OK | OR | PA | PR | RI | SC | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI
Alabama
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama, Birmingham
- University of South Alabama
Arizona
- University of Arizona
California
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging
- California Institute of Technology
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
- Scripps Research Institute
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Riverside
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Southern California
Colorado
- Colorado State University
- National Jewish Medical & Research Center
- University of Colorado, Boulder
Connecticut
- University of Connecticut
- Yale University
Delaware
- University of Delaware
District of Columbia
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Georgetown University
Florida
- Florida Atlantic University
- Florida State University
- Florida International University
- University of Central Florida
- University of Florida
- University of Miami
- University of South Florida, Tampa
Georgia
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Georgia
Illinois
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois, Chicago
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Indiana
- Indiana University
- Purdue University
- University of Notre Dame
Iowa
- University of Iowa
Kansas
- Kansas State University
- University of Kansas
Louisiana
- Tulane University
- University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Maine
- Jackson Laboratory
- University of Maine
Maryland
- The Johns Hopkins University
- National Institutes of Health - Intramural Research Program
- University of Maryland, College Park
Massachusetts
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Brandeis University
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Children's Hospital, Boston
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeastern University
- Tufts University
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
Michigan
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Wayne State University
- Western Michigan University
Minnesota
- Mayo Medical School
- University of Minnesota, Duluth
Mississippi
- University of Mississippi
- University of Southern Mississippi
Missouri
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Washington University in St Louis
Montana
- Montana State University
Nevada
- University of Nevada, Reno
New Hampshire
- Dartmouth College
- University of New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Princeton University
- Rutgers University
- Stevens Institute of Technology
New Mexico
- New Mexico State University
New York
- Brookhaven National Laboratories
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Cornell University
- Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Fordham University
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- New York Stem Cell Foundation
- New York University
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- The Rockefeller University
- University at Binghamton, State University of New York
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Stony Brook University, State University of New York
- University of Rochester
- Weill Cornell Medical College
North Carolina
- Duke University
- North Carolina State University
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Wake Forest University
North Dakota
- North Dakota State University
Ohio
- Bowling Green State University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Cleveland State University
- Miami University
- The Ohio State University
- University of Akron
- University of Cincinnati
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University
Oregon
- Oregon Health & Science University
Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Drexel University
- Duquesne University
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Lehigh University
- Temple University
- Thomas Jefferson University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology
Puerto Rico
- Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
- Brown University
- University of Rhode Island
South Carolina
- Clemson University
- University of South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Vanderbilt University
Texas
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Rice University
- Southern Methodist University
- Texas A & M University
- Texas Tech University
- The University of Texas, Austin
- The University of Texas, Arlington
- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- University of Houston
- University of North Texas
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Utah
- University of Utah
Virginia
- George Mason University
- Janelia Farm Research Campus
- Old Dominion University
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Vermont
- University of Vermont
Washington
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Institute for Systems Biology
- University of Washington
- Washington State University
West Virginia
- West Virginia University
Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin
Over 300 national institutions were invited to submit their nominations. They included degree-granting universities, private research institutes, academic medical centers, and national government laboratories. The list was derived from the following classifications of major research institutions:
- The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
- RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research activity)
- RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity) - Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s General Investigator Competition’s List of Eligible Institutions (PDF)
- United States Department of Energy National Laboratories