autism

Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.

$12,057,482,793

Total funding

26,916

Grants

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Funding agencies

2000–2025

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Funding over time

peak $867.7M · FY2000–25

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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$11,548,938,050 · 25913

NSF$232,274,765 · 470

CDC$159,338,371 · 304

DOD$99,159,377 · 160

AHRQ$8,769,627 · 26

FDA$7,377,603 · 14

USDA$1,625,000 · 1

SAMHSA$0 · 1

VA$0 · 27

autism leaderboards

Investigator-initiated All funding

Investigatorsi

Rising Stars

First grant in the last 5 yrs

1Jacob Sutton CoverstoneNeurovations$6,882,2051 gr 2Xin JinScripps Research Institute, The$3,166,5982 gr 3Anna-Sophie RommelIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$2,848,3621 gr 4Nicole R Zurcher WimmerMassachusetts General Hospital$2,825,6691 gr 5Victoria PopicBroad Institute, Inc.$2,779,5582 gr 6Euiseok J KimUniversity Of California Santa Cruz$2,618,2362 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Harrison W GabelWashington University$7,060,2886 gr 2Weizhe HongUniversity Of California Los Angeles$6,489,3623 gr 3Natasha MarrusWashington University$5,799,7453 gr 4Christine Ladd-AcostaJohns Hopkins University$5,611,9863 gr 5Jennifer Foss-FeigIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$5,605,0643 gr 6Santhosh GirirajanPennsylvania State University, The$5,559,8772 gr

All-Time

All years

1Joseph PivenWashington University$71,343,3909 gr 2Daniel H GeschwindUniversity Of California Los Angeles$67,880,41711 gr 3Kevin A. PelphreyUniversity Of California Los Angeles$34,504,8216 gr 4Amy M WetherbyFlorida State University$31,016,33910 gr 5Sally J RogersUniversity Of Colorado Denver$30,239,1756 gr 6John L. R. RubensteinUniversity Of California, San Francisco$27,046,3467 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$28,508,10537 gr 2University Of California Los Angeles$27,274,85740 gr 3Stanford University$24,690,06239 gr 4University Of California At Davis$24,468,44939 gr 5University Of California, San Francisco$21,832,64132 gr 6Boston Children'S Hospital$20,202,27932 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1University Of California At Davis$247,334,505164 gr 2Yale University$229,353,829171 gr 3University Of California, San Francisco$203,414,936110 gr 4Stanford University$186,468,856138 gr 5Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$177,924,513114 gr 6University Of California Los Angeles$166,793,391135 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1Yale University$425,582,308230 gr 2University Of California At Davis$389,316,228193 gr 3University Of California Los Angeles$321,600,578156 gr 4Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$298,760,496126 gr 5University Of California, San Francisco$291,312,259128 gr 6Stanford University$281,134,786158 gr

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