← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
$1,843,101,705
Total funding
2,198
Grants
Funding over time
peak $123.7M · FY2005–25$200M$150M$100M$50M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NIH$1,441,237,308 · 1667
DOD$214,501,041 · 117
NSF$133,661,011 · 365
NASA$27,696,746 · 10
DOE$16,726,228 · 17
AHRQ$4,419,946 · 9
FDA$3,949,954 · 2
USDA$613,747 · 7
ACF$295,723 · 2
SAMHSA$0 · 2
By mechanism
R01$750,595,523 · 452
—$393,494,497 · 518
U01$150,615,438 · 38
UL1$71,703,492 · 11
R21$58,216,386 · 161
P30$41,483,059 · 108
Investigators at Georgetown University
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
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Largest grants
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$25,784,586
· FY2014 · Department of Defense
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$18,591,715
· FY2012 · Department of Defense
DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION OF PERIPHERAL BIOMARKERS OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY$14,330,851
· FY2009 · Department of Defense
CONSIDERING THE HIGH SPONTANEOUS INCIDENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) CANCER AND HIGHER INCIDENCE OF PREMALIGNANT COLONIC POLYPS AN EVEN MODEST INCREASE BY SPACE RADIATION EXPOSURE COULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON ASTRONAUTS HEALTH RISK ESTIMATES DURING AND AFTER LONG-DURATION MANNED SPACE FLIGHTS. HOWEVER THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL UNCERTAINTY FOR GI CANCER RISK ESTIMATION FROM SPACE RADIATION DUE TO THE LACK OF IN VIVO HUMAN DATA. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE CATEGORY IN THE CURRENT SOLICITATION INVOLVING `NEW APPROACHES TOWARDS `MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF GI CANCER RISK USING `NEW BIOLOGICAL MODELS FOR `STUDIES OF RADIATION QUALITY AND DOSE-RATE EFFECTS IN RELATION TO `INDIVIDUAL RADIATION SENSITIVITY . THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THE CURRENT PROPOSAL IS TO SPECIFICALLY INVESTIGATE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR HYPOTHESIS DRIVEN MECHANISMS IN RELEVANT MOUSE MODELS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO CARCINOGENIC RISK ESTIMATES OF GI CANCER AFTER EXPOSURE TO SPACE RADIATION BEAMS PRIORITIZED IN THE CURRENT SOLICITATION. WE HAVE CHOSEN HIGH PRIORITY HZE BEAMS. SINCE MAXIMAL EFFECTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SEEN WITH 28SI IONS THIS WILL BE A PRIORITY AND WE WILL EXTEND TO LOWER Z AT SIMILAR ENERGY USING 16O AND 4HE IONS. HAVING FOUND MODEST EFFECTS IN SOME STUDIES WITH PROTONS AND CONSIDERING THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF MIXED BEAMS WE WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE SEQUENTIAL FIELD PROTON/56FE (0.2/150 KEV/M) BEAM TO START TO REPRESENT THE MIXED PARTICLE RADIATION IN SPACE. WE WILL CONSULT WITH NASA ON BEAM PRIORITIZATION AND CONSIDER THE GCR SIMULATOR AS THE STUDY PROGRESSES. SPECIFICALLY THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO DETERMINE INCIDENCE AND GRADE AS WELL AS IDENTIFY MOLECULAR PERTURBATIONS AND TARGET CELLS ASSOCIATED WITH INTESTINAL AND GASTRIC (STOMACH) TUMORS THROUGH MONITORING OF CHANGES IN THE TUMOR NUMBER HISTOLOGY GENE EXPRESSION METABOLOME AND IN THE GENOME OF THE PROPOSED MODEL SYSTEM AFTER EXPOSURE TO THESE SPACE-RADIATION BEAMS. WE ARE PROPOSING FOUR COMPLEMENTARY AIMS (AND PROJECTS) THAT WILL HAVE A COMMON OBJECTIVE TO DEVELOP A MORE RELIABLE GI CANCER RISK PREDICTION MODEL. 1] QUANTITATIVELY ASSESS GI TUMORIGENESIS IN MOUSE MODELS OF GI CANCER AND COLLECT SAMPLES FOR QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS (PROJECT 1) 2] DISSECTION OF THE SIGNALING EVENTS AND CONSEQUENCES IN GASTROINTESTINAL CELLS OF THE PERSISTENT EFFECTS OF SPACE RADIATION (PROJECT 2) 3] CHARACTERIZATION OF RADIATION-INDUCED NEOPLASTIC EVENTS IN NORMAL DIPLOID HUMAN COLONOCYTES (PROJECT 3) 4] DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (PROJECT 4A) AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (PROJECT 4B) APPROACHES FOR GI CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT.$10,926,096
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$9,497,500
· FY2015 · Department of Defense
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$9,368,431
· FY2011 · Department of the Navy
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$9,332,210
· FY2010 · Department of the Navy
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$8,600,000
· FY2008 · Department of the Navy
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$8,460,500
· FY2016 · Department of Defense
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$8,397,074
· FY2019 · Department of the Navy
BII: Predicting the global host-virus network from molecular foundations$8,106,237
· FY2022 · BIO
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MECHANISMS FOR BREAST CARCINOGENESIS: ALCOHOL DRINKING AS A PARADIGM$7,512,374
· FY2008 · Department of the Army
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHU$7,392,659
UL1 · FY2010 · RR
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$7,200,000
· FY2014 · Department of Defense
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHU$7,183,884
UL1 · FY2011 · RR
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$7,085,239
· FY2024 · Department of the Navy
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHU$7,079,582
UL1 · FY2012 · TR
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$6,990,700
· FY2020 · Department of the Navy
RESEARCH ON HLA TYPING TO SUPPORT MILITARY CONTINGENCY$6,871,851
· FY2023 · Department of the Navy
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHU$6,434,989
UL1 · FY2013 · TR