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North Carolina

North Carolina

Global health R&D delivers for North Carolina

US government investment in global health R&D has delivered

Amount
$410.0 million
to North Carolina research institutions
Jobs
5,900+ new jobs
for North Carolina
North Carolina

Neglected diseases in North Carolina

Chikungunya cases
Chikungunya cases
74
Dengue cases
Dengue cases
62
HIV diagnoses
HIV diagnoses
12904
Malaria cases
Malaria cases
272
Tuberculosis cases
Tuberculosis cases
2165
West Nile cases
West Nile cases
21
Zika cases
Zika cases
102
North Carolina's top USG-funded global health R&D institutions

North Carolina's top USG-funded global health R&D institutions

Duke University
$250.1 million
FHI 360 (previously Family Health International)
$91 million
University of North Carolina
$46.4 million
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/Carolina Vaccine Institute
$13.4 million
RTI International
$5 million
North Carolina State University Raleigh
$2.9 million
Appalachian State University
$418 thousand
North Carolina Central University
$216 thousand
North Carolina industry in global health R&D

North Carolina industry in global health R&D

Alderon Biosciences
Location(s): Beaufort
Argos Therapeutics
Location(s): Durham
Avioq
Location(s): Research Triangle Park
BASF Corporation
Location(s): Research Triangle Park
Bavarian Nordic
Location(s): Morrisville
Bayer
Location(s): Clayton, Morrisville, Research Triangle Park
Biocryst Pharmaceuticals
Location(s): Durham
Celgene
Location(s): Durham
Charles River Laboratories
Location(s): Durham, Morrisville, Raleigh
Collaborations Pharmaceuticals
Location(s): Raleigh
Eisai
Location(s): Raleigh
Envigen
Location(s): Research Triangle Park
Indexus Biomedical
Location(s): Durham
Merck & Co
Location(s): Durham, Wilson
Mucommune
Location(s): Chapel Hill
Mycosynthetix
Location(s): Hillsborough
Location(s): Morrisville
Novartis
Location(s): Holly Springs, Wilson
Pathfinder Pharma
Location(s): Durham
Ribometrix
Location(s): Durham, Chapel Hill
Sygenta
Location(s): Greensboro
Viamet Pharmaceuticals
Location(s): Durham
ViiV Healthcare
Location(s): Research Triangle Park
Westat
Location(s): Durham

North Carolina's top areas of global health R&D by USG funding

84%
HIV/AIDS
4.6%
Malaria
4.4%
Tuberculosis
2.8%
Neglected tropical diseases
Dengue
Helminths
Kinetoplastids
Trachoma
4.3%
Other
Bacterial pneumonia & meningitis
Cryptococcal meningitis
Diarrheal diseases
Ebola/viral hemorrhagic fevers
Hepatitis C
Salmonella infections
Global health R&D at work in North Carolina

RTI International, in partnership with TB Alliance, is supporting development of new drugs for tuberculosis. One new drug therapy, PaMZ, promises to dramatically shorten and simplify treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Today people with MDR-TB face up to two years of treatment with only a 50 percent success rate. This game-changing therapy now in late-stage development is expected to decrease treatment to 6 months and reduce costs by 90 percent.

Footnotes
  • Methodology
  • USG global health R&D investment to state research institutions/Top USG-funded global health R&D institutions: Authors' analysis of USG investment data from the G-FINDER survey, including funding for R&D for neglected diseases from 2007–2015 and for Ebola and select viral hemorrhagic fevers from 2014–2015. Reflects USG funding received by entities in state including academic and research institutions, product development partnerships, other nonprofits, select corporations, and government research institutions, as well as self-funding or other federal agency transfers received by federal agencies located in state; but excludes pharmaceutical industry data which is aggregated and anonymized in the survey for confidentiality purposes. See methodology for additional details.
  • Jobs created: Based on previous analysis of the economic impact of National Institutes of Health R&D funding and author's analysis described above. See methodology for additional details.
  • Case study photo: Flickr/Victor