The National Institutes of Health provides orthopedic labs and universities with funds for new research and developments in the field.
There are currently 52 universities with ongoing orthopedic research projects funded by the NIH.
Fifty-two universities with ongoing NIH-funded orthopedic research and the number of projects.
1. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): 37
2. Washington University (St. Louis): 37
3. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): 25
4. University of California San Francisco: 20
5. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): 19
6. New York University School of Medicine: 16
7. University of Rochester (N.Y.): 16
8. Columbia (N.Y.) University Health Sciences: 14
9. University of Southern California (Los Angeles): 13
10. Emory University (Atlanta): 12
11. University of Maryland Baltimore: 11
12. Stanford (Calif.) University: 10
13. University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington): 10
14. Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia): 9
15. University of Colorado Denver: 9
16. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City): 7
17. Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center: 7
18. University of California Los Angeles: 7
19. University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh: 7
20. University of Utah (Salt Lake City): 7
21. University of California at Davis: 6
22. University of California San Diego: 6
23. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: 6
24. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): 6
25. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago): 5
26. University of Washington (District of Columbia): 5
27. Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis: 4
28. University of Iowa (Iowa City): 3
29. Baylor (Texas) College of Medicine: 2
30. Boston University Medical Campus: 2
31. University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester: 2
32. University of California Irvine: 2
33. University of Kentucky (Lexington): 2
34. University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha): 2
35. University of Vermont (Burlington): 2
36. University of Virginia (Charlottesville): 2
37. Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, N.Y.): 2
38. West Virginia University (Morgantown): 2
39. Augusta (Georgia) University: 1
40. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland): 1
41. Louisiana State University Shreveport: 1
42. Loyola University Chicago: 1
43. Northwestern University (Chicago): 1
44. Ohio State University (Columbus): 1
45. State University of New York at Buffalo: 1
46. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Fayetteville): 1
47. University of Arizona (Tucson): 1
48. University of Cincinnati: 1
49. University of Miami School of Medicine: 1
50. University of Minnesota (Minneapolis): 1
51. University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus (Ohio): 1
52. UT Southwestern Medical Center: 1