QUICK FACTS
- 39,000 healthcare industry employees in the New Orleans region
- $100 million committed for primary care clinics
- 1 life sciences job creates 2.5 indirect jobs
- LSU & VA Hospital = 6,000 jobs and $1.26 billion annual impact.
- Tulane University Health Science Center = 13,000 jobs and $1.2 billion annual spending impact
- Tulane is the oldest school of Public Health and only School of Tropical Medicine in the country.
- 70% of all NIH funding for Louisiana received by New Orleans
- 10 universities, 2 medical schools and 2 community colleges in the region
- $162 million of sponsored research awarded to Tulane University in FY 2007
- Adoption of management and physical development plan for GNOBEDD, which received a U.S. Economic Development Award in 2007
- $24 million in NIH funds awarded to Xavier to focus on health disparities
- $5.5 million awarded to LSUHCS, Tulane and Xavier for vaccine center development
- $5.5 million in licensing income generated by the LSU System in 2006
- $6.7 million in licensing and royalty revenue to Tulane University
- Two successive $10+ million grants awarded to Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD of LSUHSC by The Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence.
- $5.9 Million awarded to Tulane University and LSUHSC for clinical and translational research and education
- $5.8 Million awarded to Tulane University for a program in the design, delivery and development of novel therapeutic peptides
- $98 million LA Cancer Research Center, a Tulane, LSU, and Xavier partnership, under development 66,000 sq. ft New Orleans BioInnovation Center, state of the art wet lab incubator, scheduled to open in 2009.
- The largest primate research centers in the country, and growing.