← 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
7
Funding agencies
2000–2025
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Funding over time
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
1Li LiangUniversity Of California-Irvine$7,511,4461 gr2Victoria ColemanLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$7,090,7871 gr3Wendell BeresDuke University$6,769,5271 gr4Magnus Adrian Gero HoffmannCalifornia Institute Of Technology$5,819,2502 gr5Lauren CarterUniversity Of Washington$5,637,0031 gr6Courtney CohenAlbert Einstein College Of Medicine$3,541,2481 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Laura McNayLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$15,147,2521 gr2Norbert PardiUniversity Of Pennsylvania$13,084,3545 gr3Yunda HuangFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$12,614,0301 gr4Wilton B WilliamsDuke University$11,389,3072 gr5Frederick PorterDuke University$8,173,0311 gr6Amit Praful KhandharHdt Bio Corporation$4,877,3962 gr
All-Time
All years
1Barton F HaynesDuke University$42,371,10210 gr2Georgia D TomarasFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$21,197,4323 gr3Lawrence CoreyFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$19,885,7841 gr4Glenda E GrayWits Health Consortium (Pty), Ltd$19,885,7841 gr5Dan H. BarouchFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$19,885,7841 gr6Thomas N DennyDuke University$18,530,6021 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade