Sunnybrook ranked among top five research hospitals in Canada

By Alisa Kim

Sunnybrook Research Institute has ranked fifth in Canada's Top 40 Research Hospitals List 2011, by Research Infosource Inc., a national firm that provides research and development data for businesses and universities.

The list, released today, rates hospitals by total research income in 2010, which includes all internal and external, government and nongovernment sources. Sunnybrook's standing was based on its research income of $106 million in 2010. This figure is a 26% increase in revenue from 2009-the highest year-over-year increase among the top five research hospitals from the list.

Total research income of Canada's top 40 research hospitals was $2.1 billion in 2010, highlighting the crucial role hospitals play in Canada's research sector and overall economy.

As the Research Infosource release noted, the top six research hospitals, each of which conducts more than $100 million in research annually, are "research powerhouses," operating above the scale of 34 of the top 50 universities in the country.

Sunnybrook Research Institute is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Of the top five from the list, it is the only general hospital in Ontario with a single research institute. University Health Network and Hamilton Health Sciences, ranked first and second, respectively; each have three affiliated research institutes. Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and McGill University Health Centre ranked third and fourth, respectively.

Canada's Top 40 Research Hospitals List 2011 is available on the Research Infosource website.