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Summary of FY2009 Human Subjects Database


Contributing Research Facilities

There are 38 research organizations that reported data included in this year's database. Eleven of these are DOE sites and 27 are non-DOE sites (such as hospitals, universities, or research institutes) receiving DOE funding or other sites conducting studies related to DOE activities.

The statistics section presented below represents only active projects in the HSRD. Active projects are those that have current fiscal-year IRB approval, even if they have received no funding or reported no human subject activity in the current fiscal year. Inactive projects include those that were temporarily suspended for any reason or otherwise out of compliance. Other sections of the HSRD include data on all projects, both active as well as inactive projects, reported by individual sites and research organizations.

Number of Active Research Projects
(Total Number of Projects: 303)

 Research OrganizationProjectsPercent
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 61 20%
Brookhaven National Laboratory 41 14%
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 25 8%
Los Alamos National Laboratory 24 8%
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 24 8%
MIND Research Network 20 7%
Sandia National Laboratories 19 6%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 18 6%
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 18 6%
  Others 5317%
Pie Chart Number of Research Projects
  • Seventy-nine percent of the projects were conducted at DOE facilities and 21% were conducted at non-DOE facilities.
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), with 61, had the largest number of active projects, followed by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with 41.
  • Eleven research organizations reported 25 projects as being international. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as part of the Russian Health Studies Program, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which studies health impacts of radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors, reported the largest numbers of foreign subjects.
  • Nine research organizations reported 14 projects as part of the Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP). Organizations with FWP projects include seven universities and two research labs.
Funding for Human Subjects Research
(Total Research Funding: $132,167,007)

 Research OrganizationFunding Percent
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory $25,673,460 19%
Radiation Effects Research Foundation $14,200,000 11%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory $14,029,105 11%
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education $9,660,218 7%
Sandia National Laboratories $8,836,000 7%
Queens College of the City University of New York $8,124,334 6%
University of California, Los Angeles $6,736,000 5%
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory $5,073,227 4%
Research Triangle International $4,950,000 4%
  Others $34,884,66326%
Pie Chart Funding for Human Subjects Research
  • Funding for human subjects research includes only those projects receiving federal funding. Funding from private sources is not included.
  • Funding from the DOE was $80 million and funding from other federal sources was $51 million.
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) received a significant increase in human subjects research funding in FY2009 that brought it back up to its FY2007 level and accounted for 19% of total funding. Most of the increased funding resulted from two new projects.
  • International projects, including the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) project, received $24 million in funding. RERF studies, funded jointly by DOE and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, accounted for 60% of international project funding and 11% of total funding.
  • Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP) projects received $22 million in funding from the DOE.

Number of Human Subjects
(Total Human Subjects: 1,061,966)

 Research OrganizationHuman SubjectsPercent
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 350,347 33%
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 305,205 29%
Radiation Effects Research Foundation 120,000 11%
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 96,212 9%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 54,535 5%
University of Washington - Harborview Medical Center 54,150 5%
University of Illinois at Chicago 40,000 4%
  Others 41,5174%
Pie Chart Number of Human Subjects
  • A total of 1,061,966 human subjects were involved in DOE funded, site-related, or worker-related projects.
  • About 49% of the number of human subjects were reported by DOE facilities and 51% were reported by non-DOE facilities.
  • The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has two projects that combined involve 350,000 human subjects. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has the next largest number with over 305,000.
  • International projects involved a total of 161,804 human subjects.
  • Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP) projects included 68,111 human subjects.
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has not been able to provide the numbers of human subjects used in up to 66% of its 61 projects included in the HSRD in FY2009.