← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
obesity
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$38,470,370,877
Total funding
88,094
Grants
13
Funding agencies
2000–2025
Years
Funding over time
peak $2.6B · FY2000–25$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$37,493,331,088 · 84406
CDC$503,791,955 · 747
USDA$227,426,147 · 353
NSF$142,625,677 · 389
AHRQ$68,961,658 · 178
DOD$24,509,926 · 48
FDA$9,279,650 · 23
ACF$199,521 · 3
NASA$149,833 · 1
HHS (Other)$95,422 · 2
ATSDR$0 · 1
VA$0 · 1942
SAMHSA$0 · 1
obesity 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
1Songthip T. OunpraseuthUniv Of Arkansas For Med Scis$10,363,7621 gr2Christine W HockettAvera Mckennan$8,908,3662 gr3Cathryn PeltzHenry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences$7,977,6781 gr4Channapatna S. PrakashTuskegee University$7,931,7721 gr5Hong-Ngoc B. NguyenUniversity Of Minnesota$6,812,1212 gr6Sunni L. MumfordUniversity Of Pennsylvania$6,439,6272 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Chanza BaytopWestat, Inc.$271,217,9171 gr2Ted RossUniversity Of Georgia$71,962,3041 gr3Barbara Halina BraffettGeorge Washington University$17,257,9753 gr4Ionut BebuGeorge Washington University$14,057,8502 gr5Michael P HarmsWashington University$13,645,9322 gr6Jorge Eduardo ChavarroHarvard School Of Public Health$13,580,4723 gr
All-Time
All years
1Chanza BaytopWestat, Inc.$271,217,9171 gr2Judith S. CurrierUniversity Of California Los Angeles$139,907,8002 gr3Joseph J. EronUniv Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$137,892,7731 gr4Kathryn HirstCaritas St. Elizabeth'S Medical Center$108,827,6601 gr5Peter Gordon GillespieOregon Health And Science University$104,808,1201 gr6Joseph E RobertsonOregon Health & Science University$93,739,2492 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade
All-Time
Cumulative funding
1University Of California Los Angeles$526,464,46090 gr2Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$476,495,714122 gr3University Of Pennsylvania$457,684,316110 gr4Johns Hopkins University$452,327,025129 gr5Columbia University Health Sciences$380,200,002115 gr6University Of Alabama At Birmingham$378,110,623101 gr