Everything you wanted to know about America’s first research university Information current as of September 2021 We began by asking big questions. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK RESEARCHFIVE FACTS IN ABOUT 24 TIME JOHNS ZONES HOPKINS AND 70 UNIVERSITY COUNTRIES “What are we aiming at?” 1. The university’s graduate programs in 3. It is the leading U.S. academic institution public health, nursing, biomedical in total research and development engineering, medicine, and education are spending. In fiscal year 2019, the university That’s the question Daniel Coit Gilman asked in 1876, considered among the best in the country, performed $2.917 billion in medical, science, and at his inauguration as Johns Hopkins University’s first according to U.S. News & World Report. engineering research. It has ranked No. 1 in higher president. His answer, in part: “The encouragement Individual programs in nursing and public health education research spending for the 41st year in a and the graduate program in biomedical row, according to the National Science Foundation. of research . and the advancement of individual engineering all rank No. 1. The School of Medicine The university also ranks first on the NSF’s list scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sci- is tied for No. 7 among research-oriented medical for federally funded research and development, ences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.” schools. Surgery, radiology, and anesthesiology all spending $2.482 billion in fiscal year 2019 on Gilman believed that teaching and research are ranked No. 1 and internal medicine is No. 2. The research supported by the NSF, NASA, the National School of Education is No. 17. The university itself is Institutes of Health, and the Department of interdependent, that success in one depends on success tied for No. 9 on the list of top national universities. Defense. in the other, and that a modern university must do It is No. 1 overall in biomedical engineering, tied for both well. Johns Hopkins was the nation’s very first No. 13 in engineering among universities at which 4. Johns Hopkins is Maryland’s largest employer, a major purchaser of goods and research university, and the realization of Gilman’s the highest degree offered is a doctorate, and tied for No. 20 in computer science. The university ranks services, a sponsor of construction projects and a philosophy here, and at other institutions that later at No. 10 on the list of the best global universities. magnet for students and visitors. In fiscal year attracted Johns Hopkins–trained scholars, revolution- 2019, we estimate that Johns Hopkins and its ized higher education in America. 2. Johns Hopkins claims 29 Nobel laureates affiliates directly and indirectly accounted for more past and present. Among current faculty, there than $12.6 billion in economic output in Maryland, For more than 140 years later, Johns Hopkins are four—as well as 51 American Academy of and 102,404 jobs. Including operations in remains a world leader in both teaching and research, Arts and Sciences members; 57 members of Washington, D.C., and Florida, we estimate a total with nine academic divisions—the Krieger School of the Health and Medicine Division, seven recipients economic impact of nearly $13.9 billion and more Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, of the Lasker Medical Research Award, six than 114,000 jobs. the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey MacArthur fellows, four members of the National Academy of Engineering, 27 members of the 5. The university has a presence in nearly Business School, the Peabody Institute, the Paul H. National Academy of Sciences, two Presidential every corner of the globe. It has campuses in Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Medal of Freedom winners, and one Pulitzer Prize Maryland and Washington, plus Bologna, Italy, and the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Education— winner. Nanjing, China; faculty and students conduct research on six continents; and more than 20 plus the Applied Physics Laboratory, a nonacademic percent of the university’s students come from division that supports national security and pursues countries outside the United States. space science, exploration of the solar system, and other civilian research and development. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK RESEARCH We made water purification possible. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK RESEARCHOVER THE YEARS,IN 24 TIME JOHNS ZONES HOPKINS AND 70RESEARCHERS… COUNTRIES Unveiled the first detailed images of images of Pioneered exchange of kidneys among incom- schools, which resulted in the landmark report Ultima Thule—the most distant space object patible donors (2003-2009) “Equality of Educational Opportunity“ (1960) We also developed the ever explored—as part of the New Horizons mission (2019) Landed the first spacecraft on an asteroid Invented cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ramjet engine, launched (2001) thanks to a chance observation during work on the defibrillating machine (also invented at Johns the field of genetic Designed, built, and operated the Parker Solar Isolated and cultivated human embryonic Probe, a NASA spacecraft that will travel within 4 Hopkins) that weight placed on the chest increases stem cells, the undifferentiated cells from which blood pressure (1958. First performed in July 1959) engineering, and million miles of the surface of the sun (2018) an entire human being eventually develops (1998) authenticated the Developed and received FDA-approval for an Showed that retrolental fibroplasia, which Helped develop the first effective treatment causes blindness in premature infants, was related immunotherapy drug for cancer based on for sickle cell anemia (1995) Dead Sea Scrolls. genetic glitch rather than organ site (2017) to high concentrations of oxygen used in babies’ Discovered that pennies’ worth of vitamin A incubators (1954) Built JEDI, one of nine scientific instruments At Johns Hopkins, research isn’t just something we supplements administered to Indonesian Confirmed the authenticity of the Dead Sea aboard NASA’s JUNO spacecraft, which is orbiting children as part of a blindness prevention program do—it’s who we are. For more than 140 years, our Scrolls, speeding acceptance as genuine of these Jupiter (2016) were accompanied by a dramatic drop in infant faculty and students have worked side by side in a earliest biblical manuscripts (1948) Designed, built, and operated the New Horizons death rates, leading to similar vitamin treatments tireless pursuit of discovery. Their efforts have led to spacecraft, which completed a flyby of Pluto for thousands of children in developing countries Discovered Dramamine’s effectiveness in advances in human knowledge that include the first (2015) (1983–86) alleviating motion sickness (1948) color photograph of Earth taken from space and the Cataloged more than 80 percent of the proteins Identified high rates of infant deaths in motor Immunized chimpanzees with inactivated vaccines, research that led to child safety restraint laws, Drama- in the human body—the “proteome”—as a vehicle accidents, leading to the passage of child essential to the development of the first widely mine, rubber surgical gloves, and, yes, the system of biomedical resource (2014) safety restraint laws throughout the United used polio vaccine and a major step toward water purification by chlorination, which was eventu- States (1979) the prevention of poliomyelitis in human beings Showed that half-matched bone marrow (1947–52) ally adopted by every major municipal and industrial transplants are comparable to fully matched Developed the first successful treatment to water supply system in the country and many other tissue (2011) desensitize people against bee stings (1975) Took the first images of Earth’s curvature, parts of the world. from a V-2 rocket (1946) Developed a blood test for cancer (2008) Invented the first implantable, rechargeable The good work continues, with faculty conducting pacemaker for cardiac disorders (1972) Developed the first supersonic ramjet engine research in the humanities, social and natural sciences, First cancer genomes decoded (2006) (1944) Took the first color photograph of the whole engineering, international studies, education, business, Determined that massive, mature, fully formed earth from space (1967) Developed the “blue baby” operation to correct and health and medicine—and about two-thirds of galaxies existed more than 8 billion years congenital heart defects, ushering in a new era in Discovered restriction enzymes, the so-called our undergraduates engaging in some form of research ago, far earlier than expected, necessitating a open heart surgery (1944) “biochemical scissors,” which gave birth to the during their time here. Who knows what they’ll re-examination of the dominant theory of galactic evolution (2004). entire field of genetic engineering (1960s). Published the first modern edition of the discover next? The discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in ‘Epic of Gilgamesh,’ making available to the Sent a spacecraft to Mercury to orbit the 1978 for their achievement world the most significant extra-biblical work of planet and see its entire surface for the first time ancient Near Eastern literature (1891) (2004) Conducted the first large-scale research study of conditions of inequality in American Introduced the rubber glove for use during JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK surgery (1889) AWARDS Adam Riess discovered dark energy. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK RESEARCH INNOBEL 24 TIME PRIZE ZONES WINNERS AND 70 COUNTRIES And in 2011, he won a Woodrow Wilson, PhD 1886 (History) Francis Peyton Rous, AB 1900, MD 1905 David H. Hubel Nobel Peace Prize, 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966 Assistant Resident, Neurology, 1954–55 Nobel Prize in physics for Fellow, Neuroscience, 1958–59 James Franck Haldan Keffer Hartline, MD 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 his part in showing that Professor of Physics, 1935–38 Professor of Biophysics, 1949–54 the expansion rate of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1967 Torsten Wiesel Fellow, Ophthalmology, 1955–58 Thomas Hunt Morgan, PhD 1890 Simon Kuznets universe is accelerating.