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

$33,007,538,522
Total funding
61,403
Grants
9
Funding agencies
2000–2026
Years

Funding over time

peak $3B · FY2000–26
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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$31,798,800,695 · 59073
NSF$1,116,031,406 · 1600
DOD$46,935,139 · 38
FDA$26,322,458 · 62
CDC$13,024,578 · 22
AHRQ$3,013,101 · 13
USDA$2,551,640 · 6
NASA$859,504 · 2
VA$0 · 587

drug discovery 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

1Gene Garrard OlingerUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$23,000,0001 gr2Michael DifilippantonioLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$22,364,7661 gr3Xuping XieUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$13,737,7991 gr4Heinz Ernst MoserUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$13,657,8411 gr5Colin OsborneUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$10,407,7451 gr6Taleen HananiaPsychogenics, Inc.$9,482,0401 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Leonard FreedmanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$255,277,4431 gr2Douglas S. HawkinsChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$157,315,1201 gr3Lynn BriscoeLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$93,294,8691 gr4John Damon ChoderaSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$64,994,60610 gr5Leonard FreedmandLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$52,916,6211 gr6Gary KobingerUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$41,631,8152 gr

All-Time

All years

1David HeimbrookLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$369,513,5531 gr2Leonard FreedmanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$255,277,4431 gr3Douglas S. HawkinsChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$157,315,1201 gr4Ralph ParchmentLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$137,717,6702 gr5Daniel Ernest FordJohns Hopkins University$137,014,54320 gr6Lynn BriscoeLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$93,294,8691 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$83,546,6461 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$64,999,23273 gr3Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$39,566,36023 gr4Emory University$39,310,47050 gr5Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$38,348,07542 gr6Yale University$34,557,16251 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$674,245,7733 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$398,993,224149 gr3Emory University$317,132,245103 gr4University Of California, San Diego$272,184,40297 gr5University Of Texas Med Br Galveston$247,970,23434 gr6Johns Hopkins University$240,698,419115 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$1,013,125,0653 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$531,395,891144 gr3University Of Pennsylvania$404,755,82196 gr4Emory University$401,184,77293 gr5University Of California, San Diego$398,565,196112 gr6Johns Hopkins University$383,410,141111 gr
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