Albert Einstein College Of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a private tax-exempt educational institution headquartered in the Bronx, New York, acts as a prime recipient and researcher on federal grants across the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Health Agency, and other civilian agencies—delivering hypothesis-driven biomedical research spanning cancer biology, immunology, infectious diseases, aging, cardiovascular health, and neurological disorders. The institution competes predominantly in full-and-open federal grant competitions with no set-aside designations; it holds no federal contracts as a prime contractor but receives delivery orders and purchase orders from the Department of the Navy and other agencies for tuition, fees, and research services.

Albert Einstein's federal grant footprint is heavily concentrated within the NIH ecosystem. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute leads the funding base with 158 awards ($89.8 million potential value), followed by the National Cancer Institute (150 awards, $1.6 million), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (141 awards), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (139 awards), and the National Institute on Aging (119 awards)—together representing 53% of the institution's recent award count and anchoring the potent research portfolio. Beyond NIH, the Defense Health Agency has funded multiple investigator-initiated research projects addressing military medical priorities including anaplastic thyroid cancer therapeutics, breast cancer immunotherapy, post-traumatic epileptogenesis, and vascular wall aging. The Health Resources and Services Administration supports workforce training programs including residency training in street medicine and primary care training and enhancement. Recent grant awards include a $1.89 million National Institute on Aging award quantifying physical and sensory functioning in Hispanic/Latino aging cohorts through the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Bronx Field Center; a $3.2 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases award on HIV-1 transcriptional regulation and latency reactivation; and a $18.27 million National Institute of Mental Health cooperative agreement on dynamic cognitive phenotypes for prediction of mental health outcomes in serious mental illness, with McLean Hospital as a sub-awardee.

Recent activity shows sustained federal research volume, with 226 awards in FY2024 rising to 139 in FY2025 (likely reflecting the source snapshot timing at mid-2026). Over 200 awards face ultimate completion within the next 24 months, signaling substantial recompete exposure across the grant portfolio. The institution acts as a host field center for major epidemiological cohorts—the HCHS/SOL Bronx Field Center operates under a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute through November 2033, with the first task order ($16.69 million cost-reimbursement delivery order) supporting ongoing participant enrollment and data collection through November 2032. The institution maintains extensive sub-award relationships with major universities including The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Columbia University, and others, positioning Einstein as a collaborative hub in NIH-funded research networks rather than as a sole investigator.

Einstein's federal service-contract activity captured in the Service Contract Inventory shows modest recent scale: $3.8 million in SCI-reportable invoicing across FY2022–FY2024, with 14.2 FTEs in FY2022, 8.9 in FY2023, and zero invoicing in FY2024 (two prime records show activity but no dollars reported). Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured service contracts run approximately $90/hr, with the 90th percentile reaching $187/hr—a rate spectrum consistent with research and clinical labor on federal grants. The institution does not employ subcontractors on these SCI-reportable service contracts; all recorded hours represent direct institutional delivery. The Department of the Navy has issued tuition and fees delivery orders valued at $42 thousand to $104 thousand each for education and training support. Service-contract activity appears minimal relative to the institution's total federal research footprint, which is driven by grant awards rather than service-contract procurement.

Albert Einstein functions as a child entity within the Montefiore Medical Center corporate structure; Montefiore itself holds federal prime contracts and grants. The college's federal award strategy emphasizes competitive grants in biomedical research, with particular depth in cancer biology, immunotherapy, rare and infectious diseases, aging biology, and health disparities research addressing Hispanic and Latino populations. The institution's position as a major field center coordinator (HCHS/SOL) and as a sub-recipient on multi-site NIH cooperative agreements and networks reflects its role as both an independent research entity and a node within the national research enterprise.