← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$2,703,047,493
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$2,613,287,499 · 5239
NSF$82,325,094 · 123
DOE$5,514,904 · 3
FDA$1,800,000 · 3
USDA$119,996 · 1
VA$0 · 4
cryo-EM 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
1Raul PadronUniv Of Massachusetts Med Sch Worcester$4,501,9622 gr2Goran BajicIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$3,116,2771 gr3Amanda L. WoermanUniversity Of Massachusetts Amherst$2,674,3851 gr4Claudia Susana LopezOregon Health & Science University$2,511,5911 gr5Faraz ChoudhuryImmuto Scientific, Inc.$2,493,0441 gr6Evan J WordenVan Andel Research Institute$2,422,5002 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Wei LuVan Andel Research Institute$7,647,9054 gr2Priyamvada AcharyaDuke University$7,226,5993 gr3Juan DuVan Andel Research Institute$5,188,1163 gr4Damian Charles EkiertNew York University School Of Medicine$4,711,9562 gr5Peter ShenNorthwestern University$4,423,4274 gr6Bo LiangPurdue University$3,946,4212 gr
All-Time
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1Joachim FrankColumbia University Health Sciences$15,507,3125 gr2Huilin LiBrookhaven Science Assoc-Brookhaven Lab$15,092,8387 gr3Edward H. EgelmanUniversity Of Virginia Charlottesville$11,838,3224 gr4Bidadi V Venkataram PrasadBaylor College Of Medicine$11,034,2222 gr5Bert W O'MalleyBaylor College Of Medicine$10,794,3592 gr6Peter A JonesVan Andel Research Institute$10,769,3161 gr
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