Everything you wanted to know about America’s first research university Information current as of April 2018 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 2016, the university That’s the question Daniel Coit Gilman asked in 1876, considered among the best in the country, performed $2.431 billion in medical, science, and at his inauguration as Johns Hopkins University’s first according to U.S. News & World Report. The engineering research. It has ranked No. 1 in higher president. His answer, in part: “The encouragement master’s and doctoral programs in public health, education research spending for the 38th year in a the graduate program in biomedical engineering, row, according to the National Science Foundation. of research . and the advancement of individual and the master’s program in nursing all rank No. 1. The university also ranks first on the NSF’s list scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sci- The program in internal medicine is tied at No. 1. for federally funded research and development, ences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.” The Doctor of Nursing Practice program is No. 2. spending $2.104 billion in fiscal year 2016 on Gilman believed that teaching and research are The School of Medicine as at No. 2 on the list of research supported by the NSF, NASA, the National research-oriented medical schools. And the School Institutes of Health, and the Department of interdependent, that success in one depends on success of Education is at No. 17. The university itself is tied Defense. in the other, and that a modern university must do for No. 11 on the list of top national universities. Its both well. Johns Hopkins was the nation’s very first undergraduate engineering program is tied for No. 4. Johns Hopkins is Maryland’s largest private employer. The university and the research university, and the realization of Gilman’s 14. The university is tied for No. 5 among high school counselors. The university also ranks at No. hospital and health system employ more than philosophy here, and at other institutions that later 11 on the list of the best global universities. 47,000 people in Maryland and together contribute attracted Johns Hopkins–trained scholars, revolution- more than $9.1 billion a year to the state’s ized higher education in America. 2. Johns Hopkins claims 27 Nobel laureates economy. past and present. Among current faculty, there For more than 140 years later, Johns Hopkins are four—as well as 52 American Academy of 5. The university has a presence in nearly remains a world leader in both teaching and research, Arts and Sciences members; 57 members of every corner of the globe. It has campuses in with nine academic divisions—the Krieger School of the Health and Medicine Division, seven recipients Maryland and Washington, plus Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China; faculty and students conduct Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, of the Lasker Medical Research Award, six research on six continents; and more than 20 the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey MacArthur fellows, four members of the National Academy of Engineering, 27 members of the percent of the university’s students come from Business School, the Peabody Institute, the Paul H. National Academy of Sciences, two Presidential countries outside the United States. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Medal of Freedom winners, and one Pulitzer Prize the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Education— winner. plus the Applied Physics Laboratory, a nonacademic division that supports national security and pursues 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 Developed and received FDA-approval for an Isolated and cultivated human embryonic Invented the lifesaving first-aid technique cardio- We also developed the immunotherapy drug for cancer based on stem cells, the undifferentiated cells from which pulmonary resuscitation, thanks to a chance genetic glitch rather than organ site (2017). an entire human being eventually develops (1998). observation during work on the defibrillating ramjet engine, launched machine (also invented at Johns Hopkins) that the field of genetic Built JEDI, one of nine scientific instruments Helped develop the first effective treatment weight placed on the chest increases blood aboard NASA’s JUNO spacecraft, which is orbiting for sickle cell anemia (1995). pressure (1958. FIrst performed in July 1959). engineering, and Jupiter (2016) Discovered that pennies’ worth of vitamin A Showed that retrolental fibroplasia, which authenticated the Designed, built, and operated the New Horizons supplements administered to Indonesian causes blindness in premature infants, was related spacecraft, which completed a flyby of Pluto children as part of a blindness prevention program to high concentrations of oxygen used in babies’ Dead Sea Scrolls. (2015). were accompanied by a dramatic drop in infant incubators (1954). death rates, leading to similar vitamin treatments Cataloged more than 80 percent of the proteins for thousands of children in developing countries Confirmed the authenticity of the Dead Sea At Johns Hopkins, research isn’t just something we in the human body—the “proteome”—as a (1983–86). Scrolls, speeding acceptance as genuine of these do—it’s who we are. For more than 140 years, our biomedical resource (2014) earliest biblical manuscripts (1948). faculty and students have worked side by side in a Identified high rates of infant deaths in motor Showed that half-matched bone marrow vehicle accidents, leading to the passage of child Discovered Dramamine’s effectiveness in tireless pursuit of discovery. Their efforts have led to transplants are comparable to fully matched safety restraint laws throughout the United alleviating motion sickness (1948). advances in human knowledge that include the first tissue (2011). States (1979). color photograph of Earth taken from space and the Immunized chimpanzees with inactivated vaccines, Developed a blood test for cancer (2008) Developed the first successful treatment to essential to the development of the first widely research that led to child safety restraint laws, Drama- used polio vaccine and a major step toward First cancer genomes decoded (2006) desensitize people against bee stings (1975). mine, rubber surgical gloves, and, yes, the system of the prevention of poliomyelitis in human beings water purification by chlorination, which was eventu- Determined that massive, mature, fully formed Invented the first implantable, rechargeable (1947–52). pacemaker for cardiac disorders (1972). ally adopted by every major municipal and industrial galaxies existed more than 8 billion years Took the first images of Earth’s curvature, ago, far earlier than expected, necessitating a water supply system in the country and many other Took the first color photograph of the whole from a V-2 rocket (1946). re-examination of the dominant theory parts of the world. earth from space (1967). of galactic evolution (2004). Developed the first supersonic ramjet engine The good work continues, with faculty conducting Discovered restriction enzymes, the so-called (1944). research in the humanities, social and natural sciences, Sent a spacecraft to Mercury to orbit the “biochemical scissors,” which gave birth to the planet and see its entire surface for the first time engineering, international studies, education, business, entire field of genetic engineering (1960s). Developed the “blue baby” operation to correct (2004). The discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in congenital heart defects, ushering in a new era in and health and medicine—and about two-thirds of 1978 for their achievement. open heart surgery (1944). our undergraduates engaging in some form of research Pioneered exchange of kidneys among incom- patible donors (2003-2009) during their time here. Who knows what they’ll Conducted the first large-scale research study Published the first modern edition of the of conditions of inequality in American ‘Epic of Gilgamesh,’ making available to the discover next? Landed the first spacecraft on an asteroid world the most significant extra-biblical work of (2001) schools, which resulted in the landmark report “Equality of Educational Opportunity“ (1960). ancient Near Eastern literature (1891). Introduced the rubber glove for use during surgery (1889). JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK 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