Nominating Institutions

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: