← 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
1Priyamvada AcharyaDuke University$9,904,6224 gr2Aina E. CohenStanford University$9,121,4542 gr3Leonard FreedmanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$8,226,2971 gr4Wei LuVan Andel Research Institute$8,134,4125 gr5Simon ScheuringWeill Medical Coll Of Cornell Univ$7,124,7222 gr6Leonard FreedmandLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$6,540,5851 gr
All-Time
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1Elizabeth R WrightCalifornia Institute Of Technology$45,376,1656 gr2James Eric GouauxColumbia University Health Sciences$27,985,2646 gr3James E EvansUniversity Of California At Davis$24,406,6974 gr4Richard J. KuhnPurdue University$24,130,0283 gr5Stephen Loen ReichowStanford University$18,545,4903 gr6David HeimbrookLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$18,303,0511 gr
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