← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Alzheimer's
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$44,717,590,873
Total funding
83,245
Grants
11
Funding agencies
2000–2026
Years
Funding over time
peak $4.5B · FY2000–26$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$44,346,584,878 · 81028
NSF$266,844,694 · 601
DOD$69,460,773 · 73
AHRQ$12,460,536 · 38
CDC$12,067,929 · 27
DOE$3,173,689 · 5
NASA$2,561,715 · 3
USDA$1,888,855 · 5
ATSDR$1,497,804 · 3
FDA$1,050,000 · 4
VA$0 · 1458
Alzheimer's 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
1Jennifer Lee O'BrienUniversity Of South Florida$15,110,8622 gr2Thomas K KarikariWake Forest University Health Sciences$12,972,4261 gr3John AlamEip Pharma, Inc.$10,411,0181 gr4Robert C AlexanderBanner Health$8,197,1112 gr5Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$5,926,4682 gr6Mohamad HabesUniversity Of Texas Hlth Science Center$5,546,5523 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Susan AbushakraAlzheon, Inc.$51,190,2441 gr2Susan M LandauUniversity Of California Berkeley$47,252,0261 gr3Jessica Brooke LangbaumBanner Health$24,709,2015 gr4Tharick PascoalUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$23,438,3272 gr5Suzanne L BakerUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$20,465,5821 gr6Timothy Yikai HuangSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute$16,595,7217 gr
All-Time
All years
1Randall J BatemanWashington University$152,552,49410 gr2David A BennettRush University Medical Center$102,050,07913 gr3Jose A LuchsingerColumbia University Health Sciences$96,021,37312 gr4Paul S. AisenCognition Therapeutics, Inc.$94,308,79812 gr5Keith A. JohnsonBanner Health$69,240,7459 gr6Sterling C JohnsonSt. Joseph'S Hospital And Medical Center$66,961,8104 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
1Washington University$139,252,411132 gr2Columbia University Health Sciences$118,747,847133 gr3University Of Southern California$113,769,488100 gr4University Of California, San Francisco$103,910,269142 gr5University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor$100,171,88997 gr6Massachusetts General Hospital$94,378,011145 gr
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade
1Washington University$806,759,869216 gr2Columbia University Health Sciences$738,079,891217 gr3University Of Southern California$694,313,556165 gr4Johns Hopkins University$663,203,901207 gr5University Of California, San Francisco$564,705,178194 gr6University Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$533,023,513159 gr
All-Time
Cumulative funding