← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
mRNA vaccine
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$1,845,334,823
Total funding
2,754
Grants
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Funding agencies
2000–2025
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peak $447.7M · FY2000–25$500M$375M$250M$125M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$1,804,493,900 · 2665
NSF$26,442,076 · 45
DOD$6,750,579 · 6
FDA$4,483,999 · 7
USDA$2,393,777 · 6
CDC$770,492 · 3
VA$0 · 22
mRNA vaccine 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
1Magnus Adrian Gero HoffmannCalifornia Institute Of Technology$3,559,7501 gr2Hamideh ParhizFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$2,983,6723 gr3Stanley XuKaiser Foundation Research Institute$2,691,2751 gr4Taishi KimuraHdt Bio Corporation$2,165,3081 gr5Philip A MuddWashington University$1,813,1491 gr6Parham Ramezani-RadLa Jolla Institute For Immunology$1,767,1841 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Norbert PardiUniversity Of Pennsylvania$6,701,9143 gr2Amit Praful KhandharHdt Bio Corporation$4,877,3962 gr3Fredrick Heath DamronWest Virginia University$4,121,3181 gr4Sandhya VasanHenry M. Jackson Fdn For The Adv Mil/Med$3,259,5091 gr5Yogesh K GuptaUniversity Of Texas Hlth Science Center$3,161,1271 gr6Michela LocciUniversity Of Pennsylvania$3,024,4172 gr
All-Time
All years
1Sean P. J. WhelanWashington University$9,328,6242 gr2Elias SayourUniversity Of Florida$8,032,6893 gr3Drew WeissmanUniversity Of Pennsylvania$7,920,6364 gr4Beatrice H HahnUniversity Of Alabama At Birmingham$7,550,9572 gr5Norbert PardiUniversity Of Pennsylvania$6,701,9143 gr6Christian TschudiYale University$6,305,9574 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade