A significant amount of our funding comes from federal and state agencies. This support of our basic research allows us to conduct in-depth, ongoing research of life-threatening diseases. Federal support is usually awarded after three or more years of preliminary work on a specific research project. This research can then move to the next critical stage to design new treatments and medications.

Federal Agencies

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is one of the world's foremost medical research centers and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability.

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is one of the 27 Institutes that comprise the NIH and primarily supports basic biomedical research that is not targeted to specific diseases or disorders. Because scientific breakthroughs often originate from such untargeted studies, NIGMS-funded work has contributed substantially to the tremendous progress that biomedical research has made in recent years.

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the U.S. Government established in 1950. Part of their mission is to promote the progress of science and advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by initiating and supporting scientific research and educational programs.

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA is an organization that evolved more than 80 years ago to expand the realm of human knowledge through a systematic program of exploration and discovery of the atmosphere and space. They believe in using the environment of space for research and to explore, use, and enable the development of space for human and robotic endeavors in science and commerce.

• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Founded in 1946, the Office of Naval Research sponsors science and technology in support of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. ONR today funds work at more than 450 universities, laboratories, and other organizations.

State Agencies

• New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR)
The NYSTAR initiative is committed to making New York a national leader in high technology academic research and economic development. One of their many goals is to coordinate and organize New York's wide array of science and technology informational resources to provide our academic, business and research communities access to these resources.

• Generating Employment Through New York Science (GEN*NY*SIS)
This plan includes a total of $500 million in targeted tax credits and direct state grants to match private, academic, and industry investments designed to lure new biotech companies and encourage new alliances between industry and our world-class universities and research facilities. The primary goal of GEN*NY*SIS is to create new jobs for New Yorkers and to make our state an undisputed leader in research and development of applied life sciences technology.