Mayo Clinic grows its military connections
Medical care and the military might seem to be an unusual pairing, but Mayo Clinic and the U.S. Department of Defense have a long history of working together on multimillion-dollar contracts and research grants.
The creation of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Defense Medical Research Office in 2014 has spurred the growth of that relationship. Four years ago, Mayo Clinic had $4.3 million in federal research grants and contracts from the DoD. That number more than doubled to $10.3 million by 2017, according to Dr. Peter Amadio, medical director for the office.
Those numbers do not include Mayo Clinic’s non-research contracts with the Deptartment of Defense, due to confidentiality agreements, said Amadio.
A government spending database listed Mayo Clinic’s total Defense Department grants plus contracts and other payments at $17.2 million for 2018. That’s up from $10.8 million in 2016. Mayo Clinic could not confirm those figures, citing confidentiality agreements and differences in accounting practices.
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