← 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.
$8,355,000,327
Total funding
21,646
Grants
9
Funding agencies
2000–2025
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Funding over time
peak $506.5M · FY2000–25$1B$750M$500M$250M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$8,185,651,573 · 20928
DOD$133,891,713 · 218
NSF$22,708,216 · 55
FDA$7,030,335 · 27
AHRQ$2,307,379 · 7
CDC$2,158,268 · 11
DOE$632,843 · 2
USDA$620,000 · 2
VA$0 · 396
melanoma 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
1Xu ChenUniversity Of California, San Francisco$3,581,2852 gr2Yuwen ZhuUniversity Of Colorado Denver$3,496,5943 gr3Hailey Rose BanackState University Of New York At Buffalo$2,634,8911 gr4Debattama Rai SenMassachusetts General Hospital$2,502,0001 gr5Megan K RuhlandOregon Health & Science University$2,265,5781 gr6Kivanc KoseSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$2,246,6102 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Dawn C WardUniversity Of California Los Angeles$7,282,3771 gr2Kathleen NicolResearch Inst Nationwide Children'S Hosp$7,187,9461 gr3Tina GaryantesLinnaeus Therapeutics, Llc$6,999,9602 gr4Benjamin IzarDana-Farber Cancer Inst$6,774,0696 gr5David M. AshleyDuke University$6,274,5524 gr6Zachary Scott MorrisUniversity Of Wisconsin-Madison$5,820,5284 gr
All-Time
All years
1David HeimbrookLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$206,517,7261 gr2Richard L SchilskyUniversity Of Chicago$108,377,3822 gr3Larry Arthur$59,113,7091 gr4Charles A ColtmanSouthwest Oncology Group$55,198,6332 gr5Robert L ComisFrontier Sci &Technology Rsch Fdn, Inc$47,956,6891 gr6Meenhard HerlynUniversity Of Pennsylvania$46,448,74243 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade