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Iowa State University

Ames, IA

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$1,173,740,968
Total funding
2,018
Grants

Funding over time

peak $79.4M · FY2005–26
$100M$75M$50M$25M$0
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Funding mix

By agency

NSF$743,098,189 · 1620
NIH$416,287,685 · 363
FDA$7,430,835 · 22
CDC$6,924,259 · 12
SAMHSA$0 · 1

By mechanism

—$743,098,189 · 1620
R01$275,222,417 · 147
R21$30,516,871 · 79
R35$24,983,123 · 15
R24$17,663,787 · 6
U01$12,227,880 · 9

Investigators at Iowa State University

Investigator-initiatedAll funding

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

1Jacob D Meyer$3,716,5763 gr2Junqi Li$1,405,9311 gr3Yang Yang$1,147,5001 gr4Hongqing Guo$737,7851 gr5Sudhanva Srinivas Kashyap$662,2802 gr6Qun Wang$612,0001 gr7Patrick J Gorden$455,6122 gr8Sudhir Kumar$420,7501 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Baoyu Chen$4,475,6303 gr2Vincenzo Venditti$2,567,1851 gr3Thimmasettappa Thippeswamy$2,530,8525 gr4Xuefeng Wang$2,344,7641 gr5Thomas J Mansell$2,228,6463 gr6Davit Potoyan$2,064,5651 gr7Nigel F Reuel$1,941,3621 gr8Brett Vanveller$1,899,5741 gr

All-Time

Most funded here, all years

1Richard L Spoth$55,550,4979 gr2Philip G Haydon$22,417,87115 gr3Leslie B Whitbeck$21,734,6418 gr4Rand Donald Conger$19,747,2084 gr5Frederick X Gibbons$15,613,8105 gr6Ronald L Simons$14,817,6865 gr7Mei Hong$13,425,2915 gr8Edward W Yu$11,660,91912 gr

Largest grants

NSF Engineering Reasearch Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC)$35,822,284
· FY2008 · ENG
Iowa EPSCoR: Harnessing Energy Flows in the Biosphere to Build Sustainable Energy Systems$20,000,000
· FY2011 · O/D
Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:DP): National Testing Facility for Enhancing Wind Resiliency of Infrastructure in Tornado-Downburst-Gust Front Events (NEWRITE)$14,025,452
· FY2023 · ENG
RII Track-1: Building Capacity across Iowa to Meet Human Needs from Things that Grow$12,395,035
· FY2023 · O/D
Natural Variation and Drought Responses in Developing Maize Inflorescences$6,817,527
· FY2013 · BIO
CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: COALESCE: COntext Aware LEarning for Sustainable CybEr-Agricultural Systems$5,236,000
· FY2021 · CSE
Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven Prevention$5,162,243
R01 · FY2004 · DA
Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Cotton$5,078,573
· FY2009 · BIO
Iowa-Illinois-Nebraska LSAMP: IINSPIRE: A STEM Partnership for Innovation in Research and Education$4,999,714
· FY2016 · EDU
Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven Prevention$4,775,618
R01 · FY2005 · DA
Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven Prevention$4,765,752
R01 · FY2003 · DA
Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Cotton$4,669,363
· FY2002 · BIO
Improving Air Quality for Laboratory Animal Research$4,383,055
G20 · FY2010 · RR
Establishment of Robust Maize Transformation Systems$4,325,963
· FY2001 · BIO
Teachers and Engineers Collaborating in STEM Elementary Teacher Preparation$4,206,018
· FY2014 · EDU
Cyberinfrastructure for (Comparative) Plant Genome Research Through PlantGDB$4,120,931
· FY2006 · BIO
Collaborative Research: ECSEL Scholarship Program (Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineers as Leaders)$4,054,476
· FY2016 · EDU
Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven Prevention$3,892,540
R01 · FY2006 · DA
Iowa Research Administration Internship Student Experience (I-RAISE)$3,700,751
· FY2024 · O/D
High-density Genetic Map of Maize Transcripts$3,691,269
· FY2003 · BIO