SARS-CoV-2

Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.

$8,801,925,342

Total funding

7,685

Grants

8

Funding agencies

2004–2025

Years

Funding over time

peak $2.2B · FY2004–25

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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$8,496,720,359 · 6859

CDC$137,943,420 · 111

NSF$113,306,795 · 404

USDA$20,777,510 · 28

DOD$12,728,072 · 9

AHRQ$11,428,979 · 24

FDA$9,020,207 · 55

VA$0 · 195

SARS-CoV-2 leaderboards

Investigator-initiated All funding

Investigatorsi

Rising Stars

First grant in the last 5 yrs

1Angee GreerPpd Development Lp$82,531,9271 gr 2Mari OstendorfUniversity Of Washington$52,276,4801 gr 3Kevin V GrimesStanford University$14,783,8041 gr 4Michael George NatchusEmory University$10,548,5541 gr 5James CappoNational Jewish Health$9,298,2201 gr 6Alexander KolykhalovEmory University$8,116,4651 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Ethan DmitrovskyLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$143,577,6661 gr 2Mark MarinoVenturewell$49,647,5675 gr 3John Damon ChoderaSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$48,538,8465 gr 4Theresa EngelLeidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$36,854,8581 gr 5Stuart Hellyar Hellyar$34,175,2301 gr 6Bala RajaLuminostics, Inc.$28,624,4601 gr

All-Time

All years

1Lawrence CoreyFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$260,949,3223 gr 2Glenda E GrayWits Health Consortium (Pty), Ltd$238,149,8421 gr 3Rachel Sharon GrossAlbert Einstein College Of Medicine$163,267,0582 gr 4Leora HorwitzYale University$162,744,5091 gr 5Stuart D KatzColumbia University Health Sciences$162,744,5091 gr 6Andrea B TroxelColumbia University Health Sciences$162,744,5091 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor$42,266,44219 gr 2University Of Washington$25,190,66317 gr 3Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$21,643,9491 gr 4University Of California, San Francisco$19,956,85727 gr 5Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$19,941,85642 gr 6Tulane University Of Louisiana$13,734,1478 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1New York University School Of Medicine$714,767,84130 gr 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$567,390,84214 gr 3Duke University$356,874,11258 gr 4Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$292,825,7592 gr 5University Of California Los Angeles$224,538,82843 gr 6Family Health International$200,651,2171 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1New York University School Of Medicine$714,767,84130 gr 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$567,390,84214 gr 3Duke University$356,874,11258 gr 4Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$341,925,7902 gr 5University Of California Los Angeles$224,934,04344 gr 6Family Health International$200,651,2171 gr

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