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

$179,130,084,786
Total funding
314,170
Grants
13
Funding agencies
2000–2025
Years

Funding over time

peak $12.6B · FY2000–25
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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$176,842,018,217 · 302081
FDA$642,680,788 · 1148
AHRQ$587,261,205 · 1860
DOD$455,216,671 · 174
NSF$293,447,483 · 615
CDC$287,877,199 · 653
USDA$15,344,497 · 30
ATSDR$3,245,482 · 9
NASA$2,893,244 · 3
ACF$100,000 · 1
VA$0 · 7591
HHS (Other)$0 · 1
SAMHSA$0 · 4

clinical trial leaderboards

Investigator-initiatedAll funding

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

1Jennifer Lee O'BrienUniversity Of South Florida$15,110,8622 gr2Thomas K KarikariWake Forest University Health Sciences$12,972,4261 gr3John AlamEip Pharma, Inc.$10,411,0181 gr4Robert C AlexanderBanner Health$8,197,1112 gr5Jeff T HutchinsInhalon Biopharma, Inc.$7,143,4115 gr6Kenneth SchultzTrethera Corporation$6,450,0735 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Susan AbushakraAlzheon, Inc.$50,765,2441 gr2Susan M LandauUniversity Of California Berkeley$47,252,0261 gr3Jessica Brooke LangbaumBanner Health$24,709,2015 gr4Tharick PascoalUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$23,438,3272 gr5Suzanne L BakerUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$20,465,5821 gr6Gary FangerRise Therapeutics, Llc$16,249,00310 gr

All-Time

All years

1Randall J BatemanWashington University$146,685,3778 gr2Paul S. AisenCognition Therapeutics, Inc.$91,343,99011 gr3Keith A. JohnsonBanner Health$60,758,3817 gr4Reisa A. SperlingBanner Health$60,566,0007 gr5Adam L BoxerMayo Clinic Rochester$54,710,1184 gr6John Anthony BaronDartmouth College$54,319,1962 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1Johns Hopkins University$282,143,367400 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$264,802,440398 gr3Duke University$241,139,031298 gr4Massachusetts General Hospital$239,924,373357 gr5Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$231,775,703116 gr6University Of Pennsylvania$202,052,033337 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$1,812,629,9413 gr2Duke University$1,569,607,889172 gr3Research Triangle Institute$1,461,038,40827 gr4Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$1,369,954,15949 gr5University Of California Los Angeles$1,186,323,24464 gr6Johns Hopkins University$1,116,068,602150 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$2,620,305,51765 gr2Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$2,561,844,5683 gr3Duke University$2,464,263,416174 gr4Johns Hopkins University$2,112,750,990170 gr5University Of California Los Angeles$1,697,943,93069 gr6Research Triangle Institute$1,563,597,52627 gr
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