The University of Cape Town attracted more funding for direct grants from the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA than any other non-American university in 2013. Even as the NIH's funding of foreign institutions has declined, UCT has attracted increasing amounts of funding every year - growing more than threefold in the last three years alone, from $2,622,671 in 2010 to $9,150,889 in 2013. Read the Media release.