← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
stem cells
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$64,027,481,912
Total funding
157,382
Grants
10
Funding agencies
2000–2026
Years
Funding over time
peak $4.6B · FY2000–26$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$61,107,900,596 · 150701
NSF$2,544,388,624 · 3723
DOD$273,357,423 · 368
FDA$38,367,562 · 86
USDA$30,969,167 · 61
NASA$14,613,870 · 26
CDC$11,952,348 · 42
AHRQ$3,207,893 · 7
DOE$2,724,429 · 8
VA$0 · 2360
stem cells 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
1Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$5,926,4682 gr2Jennifer Eileen AdairFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$3,353,8452 gr3Frank SoldnerAlbert Einstein College Of Medicine$3,303,2353 gr4Riccardo GottardiChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$3,232,4673 gr5Emil SchuelerUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$3,198,0821 gr6Chongli YuanPurdue University$3,140,5173 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Heidi Irma JacobsMassachusetts General Hospital$9,240,1413 gr2Timothy Yikai HuangSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute$8,675,0695 gr3Daniel LucasCincinnati Childrens Hosp Med Ctr$8,016,6645 gr4Frederic GeissmannSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$7,938,1362 gr5Hemali PhatnaniNew York University School Of Medicine$7,892,2465 gr6Julia TcwIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$7,613,6256 gr
All-Time
All years
1Elaine FuchsUniversity Of Chicago$34,687,5453 gr2Hans-Peter KiemFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$34,078,10914 gr3Rudolf JaenischWhitehead Institute For Biomedical Res$33,664,65611 gr4Joseph C WuStanford University$33,213,12019 gr5Chuan HeUniversity Of Chicago$28,431,4824 gr6Li-Huei TsaiMassachusetts Institute Of Technology$27,808,38111 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
1Stanford University$114,380,852239 gr2Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$104,842,807168 gr3Columbia University Health Sciences$101,625,608162 gr4University Of California, San Francisco$100,694,833191 gr5University Of Pennsylvania$97,117,722208 gr6Massachusetts General Hospital$87,074,585134 gr
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade
1Stanford University$553,425,369214 gr2Columbia University Health Sciences$463,399,060191 gr3Massachusetts General Hospital$458,380,268149 gr4Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$449,269,368178 gr5University Of California, San Francisco$409,418,311161 gr6University Of Pennsylvania$365,293,146168 gr
All-Time
Cumulative funding
1Stanford University$800,438,633228 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$553,010,466173 gr3Massachusetts General Hospital$499,648,371142 gr4Columbia University Health Sciences$496,153,015174 gr5University Of Pennsylvania$452,997,444151 gr6Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$448,555,767157 gr