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Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

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$3,690,144,288
Total funding
5,098
Grants

Funding over time

peak $289.1M · FY2005–25
$500M$375M$250M$125M$0
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Funding mix

By agency

NIH$1,657,335,361 · 1972
NSF$1,089,137,785 · 2244
DOD$509,266,186 · 563
DOE$410,877,693 · 193
NASA$29,205,208 · 100
AHRQ$4,704,799 · 16
ACF$1,882,553 · 6
USDA$382,369 · 3
CDC$0 · 3
SAMHSA$0 · 1

By mechanism

—$2,040,751,794 · 3109
R01$974,008,657 · 680
U01$88,967,082 · 29
T32$82,159,993 · 37
N01$77,682,236 · 20
R21$52,175,673 · 142

Investigators at Northwestern 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

1Xiaodong Tan$1,600,0001 gr2Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo$1,587,4232 gr3Jorg Hanrieder$1,499,7023 gr4Ping Yin$1,148,6172 gr5Molly G Bright$830,6743 gr6Yonghui Ding$668,1721 gr7Neda Bagheri$596,1591 gr8Niall Mangan$596,1591 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Evangelos Kiskinis$6,364,0698 gr2Peter Shen$5,719,8636 gr3Angela Christine Roberts$5,520,1673 gr4Matthew Joel Feinstein$5,296,8423 gr5Deborah Rachelle Winter$4,480,6023 gr6Sarah Marie Wignall$3,965,9442 gr7Yuan He$3,718,7123 gr8Angela Fidler Pfammatter$3,408,9433 gr

All-Time

Most funded here, all years

1Mary McGrae McDermott$62,129,25929 gr2Linda A Teplin$47,408,6899 gr3Thomas Hope$38,723,74920 gr4Michael S Wolf$33,783,67717 gr5Debiao Li$29,766,48619 gr6Vadim Backman$28,827,05325 gr7Kathleen Janee Green$28,147,5566 gr8Richard M Longnecker$26,981,30118 gr

Largest grants

TAS::89 0227::TAS RECOVERY; NEW: RECOVERY ACT - CENTER FOR INTEGRATED TRAINING IN FAR-FROM-EQUILIBRIUM AND ADAPTIVE MATERIALS (CITFAM) -- EFRC; PI -$63,000,000
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
ARGONNE-NORTHWESTERN SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH (ANSER) CENTER -- EFRC$35,857,309
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$29,199,200
· FY2013 · EDU
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$28,092,672
· FY2022 · EDU
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$20,578,066
· FY2018 · EDU
CENTER FOR MOLECULAR QUANTUM TRANSDUCTION (CMQT)$19,575,000
· FY2020 · Department of Energy
INSTITUTE FOR CATALYSIS IN ENERGY PROCESS$17,050,000
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
NCLT: A Center to Develop Nanoscale Science and Engineering Educators with Leadership Capabilities$16,688,074
· FY2004 · EDU
CEMRI: Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures$16,465,474
· FY2011 · MPS
MRSEC: Center for Multifunctional Materials$16,015,000
· FY2017 · MPS
Center: NSF Engineering Research Center for Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND)$14,000,000
· FY2024 · ENG
Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies$13,439,045
· FY2006 · ENG
MRSEC: Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures$13,235,420
· FY2005 · MPS
NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology$12,750,000
· FY2023 · MPS
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center$12,721,823
· FY2000 · MPS
Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies$12,702,550
· FY2001 · ENG
INTEGRATING CELL-FREE SYSTEMS AND GENOME ENGINEERING TO ACCELERATE BIOSYSTEMS DESIGN FOR CARBON-NEGATIVE BIOMANUFACTURING$11,582,563
· FY2022 · Department of Energy
RESEARCH IN THE ENERGY, COSMIC AND INTENSITY FRONTIERS AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$11,512,000
· FY2017 · Department of Energy
Graduate Research Fellowship Program$10,955,406
· FY2008 · EDU
DISTRIBUTED CELL-FREE MANUFACTURING OF BIOLOGICS-BASED MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES$10,923,276
· FY2023 · Department of the Army