← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
lung cancer
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$19,489,374,997
Total funding
46,183
Grants
12
Funding agencies
2000–2025
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peak $1.3B · FY2000–25$2B$1.5B$1B$500M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$19,132,914,563 · 44324
DOD$169,395,893 · 302
NSF$66,446,928 · 209
CDC$48,376,493 · 135
AHRQ$34,523,814 · 111
NASA$25,373,690 · 7
ATSDR$6,175,000 · 9
FDA$4,603,145 · 17
USDA$1,750,143 · 3
HHS (Other)$37,786 · 1
VA$0 · 1063
DOE$-222,458 · 2
lung cancer 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
1Jeff P SimkoWashington University$4,624,3541 gr2Matthew Adam TripletteFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$3,477,8753 gr3Amy M MoskopMedical College Of Wisconsin$3,357,5001 gr4Emil SchuelerUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$3,198,0821 gr5Galina VidCeramedix Holding, Llc$3,007,0431 gr6Jihyoun JeonProvincial Health Services Authority$2,982,8173 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Leonard FreedmanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$50,919,6021 gr2Greg YothersUniversity Of Chicago$35,003,8211 gr3Lynn BriscoeLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$26,085,1581 gr4Rachana AgarwalLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$15,241,4621 gr5Jeremy James MartinsonUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$14,230,3661 gr6John FreymannLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$14,011,2081 gr
All-Time
All years
1David HeimbrookLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$351,628,9551 gr2Walter John CurranThomas Jefferson University$112,710,6132 gr3Jan C BucknerMayo Clinic Coll Of Medicine, Rochester$74,178,5911 gr4Larry Arthur$67,313,3331 gr5William J. BlotVanderbilt University$62,640,4271 gr6Norman WolmarkNsabp Foundation, Inc.$58,552,8961 gr
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