← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
breast cancer
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$30,728,782,534
Total funding
73,398
Grants
12
Funding agencies
2000–2025
Years
Funding over time
peak $1.6B · FY2000–25$2B$1.5B$1B$500M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$28,453,803,924 · 69959
DOD$1,663,555,812 · 1862
CDC$396,870,995 · 313
NSF$137,330,339 · 391
AHRQ$48,978,528 · 220
FDA$12,198,460 · 28
ATSDR$5,500,000 · 5
USDA$4,407,764 · 8
NASA$2,759,736 · 2
DOE$2,569,791 · 3
HHS (Other)$807,185 · 3
VA$0 · 604
breast cancer leaderboards
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
1Jeff P SimkoWashington University$4,624,3541 gr2Amy FowlerUniversity Of Wisconsin-Madison$3,836,1152 gr3John Paderi John Paderi John PaderiIhp Therapeutics, Inc.$3,571,1512 gr4Johannes F FahrmannUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$3,395,1942 gr5Jennifer A. LigibelPennsylvania State Univ Hershey Med Ctr$3,151,8932 gr6Jennifer M. RosenbluthUniversity Of California, San Francisco$3,109,4072 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Dale SandlerSocial And Scientific Systems, Inc.$41,380,3171 gr2Greg YothersUniversity Of Chicago$35,003,8211 gr3Olwen HahnBrigham And Women'S Hospital$32,076,7061 gr4Leonard FreedmanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$21,750,0661 gr5Rachana AgarwalLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$15,241,4621 gr6Leonard FreedmandLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$12,635,6311 gr
All-Time
All years
1David HeimbrookLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$358,324,2031 gr2Norman WolmarkNsabp Foundation, Inc.$299,443,2044 gr3Richard L SchilskyUniversity Of Chicago$122,521,7233 gr4Walter John CurranThomas Jefferson University$115,541,9603 gr5Joseph P. CostantinoUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$104,096,3283 gr6Monica M BertagnolliStrang Cancer Prevention Center$103,153,0305 gr
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