When it comes to hospital-based research in Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute has once again been ranked among the country’s ten best.
The research arm of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and St. Joseph’s Health Care London took the eighth spot in the 2021 edition of ‘Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals’ list by Re$earch Infosource. Lawson has held the strong nation position for eight years in a row and is also among the top five research institutions in Ontario.
“This is a validation of the extensive support from LHSC and St. Joseph’s, our hospital foundations, Western University and our staff and physicians,” said Lawson’s Scientific Director Dr. David Hill. “These strong partnerships make the hospital environment in London a nationally recognized centre of discovery and knowledge translation.”
Lawson has also maintained the top ranking for research intensity among large tier institutions with a little more than $600,000 of research spending per researcher. Being tied to the region’s two hospital networks, the institute’s researchers have had early access to COVID-19 patients and test samples to further global knowledge of the virus.
“The Province of Ontario designated health research as an essential service early in the pandemic,” said Dr. Hill. “They understood that only science can get us through this, be it through vaccine development, surveillance and testing, evaluating new drugs to help patients in ICU survive, or studying the long-term health impacts. We have made substantial contributions of new knowledge through Lawson.”
Re$earch Infosource analyzes hospital-based research institutes from across the country annually using several metrics, including total research income from the previous fiscal year. Lawson received more than $121 million in research income last year, a 2.6 per cent difference from the previous year.
