← 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 gr2Oren RomLsu Health Sciences Center -Shreveport$3,749,9841 gr3Anthony W OrrLsu Health Sciences Center -Shreveport$3,749,9841 gr4Amar NijagalUniversity Of California, San Francisco$3,176,6801 gr5Hao LiSalk Institute For Biological Studies$2,988,2733 gr6Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$2,939,5491 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1William H. PeranteauChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$16,284,2364 gr2Crystal MackallChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$12,649,5802 gr3Jesse M EngreitzStanford University$12,249,8268 gr4Tomasz NowakowskiUniversity Of California, San Francisco$9,024,9501 gr5Yin ShenUniversity Of California, San Francisco$7,988,2684 gr6Mazhar AdliUniversity Of Virginia$7,169,0174 gr
All-Time
All years
1Kim GreenUniversity Of California-Irvine$22,643,8822 gr2Melanie Maria OttJ. David Gladstone Institutes$22,264,9367 gr3Norbert PerrimonHarvard Medical School$21,115,84813 gr4Christopher VakocCold Spring Harbor Laboratory$18,734,49313 gr5Jennifer A DoudnaYale University$16,724,5869 gr6Thomas None QuertermousStanford University$16,370,2309 gr
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