Research Funds
The Lebanese National Research Council and the University Research Board of AUB have been the two local funding agencies for our projects. Funds have been also solicited from international foundations such as the TWAS, Terry Fox, Mercy Corps/USDA wheat funds, USAID, IFS, DFG, CEDRE, Matthias Rath Inc., HITECH FZE, WHO, Swedish Research Council/Uppsala University, WHO/EMRO/COMSTECH. The total number of funded research projects and the total amounts of funds solicited by our faculty members in the past 6 years are summarized in the following table:
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|
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
2008-09 |
|
No. of full time in Professorial rank |
12 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
|
No. of LNCSR grants |
4 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
|
Amount in USD ( LNCSR ) |
18,000 |
16,000 |
28,000 |
28,666 |
27,851 |
|
No. of URB grants |
10 |
11 |
11 |
10 |
10 |
|
Amount in USD ( URB ) |
61,170 |
94,312 |
84,689 |
79,852 |
71,668 |
|
Average URB Funds (USD) |
6,170 |
8,573 |
7,699 |
7,985 |
7,166 |
|
No. of external grants |
1 |
1 |
2 |
- |
2 |
|
Amount (USD) of external grants |
67,710 |
28,800 |
13,736 |
- |
38,000 |