← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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CRISPR
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$7,687,820,225
Total funding
16,756
Grants
9
Funding agencies
2008–2025
Years
Funding over time
peak $1.3B · FY2008–25$2B$1.5B$1B$500M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$7,351,403,934 · 16187
NSF$253,462,857 · 355
USDA$45,032,254 · 89
DOD$32,328,460 · 30
CDC$3,747,389 · 4
NASA$1,667,245 · 5
FDA$168,087 · 1
DOE$10,000 · 1
VA$0 · 84
CRISPR 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
1Christopher W PetersonFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$4,692,2222 gr2Amar NijagalUniversity Of California, San Francisco$3,176,6801 gr3Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$2,939,5491 gr4Hao LiSalk Institute For Biological Studies$2,643,1052 gr5Vishnu HosurJackson Laboratory$2,568,4381 gr6Li-Tao GuoRnaconnect Inc$2,500,0001 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Jesse M EngreitzStanford University$6,684,4704 gr2David R RaleighUniversity Of California, San Francisco$6,030,0694 gr3Yonathan LissanuUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$5,392,8802 gr4J. Silvio GutkindUniversity Of California, San Diego$5,307,7974 gr5Christopher A. GaiteriRush University Medical Center$5,003,6171 gr6Mazhar AdliUniversity Of Virginia$4,993,5463 gr
All-Time
All years
1Norbert PerrimonHarvard Medical School$19,357,93111 gr2Joseph C WuStanford University$13,836,9509 gr3Howard Y ChangStanford University$13,810,8581 gr4Panagiotis RoussosIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$13,245,0593 gr5Hugo J BellenBaylor College Of Medicine$13,049,5734 gr6Len Alexander PennacchioUniversity Of Calif-Lawrenc Berkeley Lab$11,840,8702 gr
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