← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
bioinformatics
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$45,925,495,985
Total funding
81,735
Grants
10
Funding agencies
2000–2026
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Funding over time
peak $3.1B · FY2000–26$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$43,384,407,744 · 77590
NSF$2,405,993,527 · 3437
USDA$30,781,036 · 69
NASA$28,023,091 · 25
DOD$26,529,093 · 9
CDC$15,370,881 · 36
FDA$15,313,400 · 84
DOE$13,697,541 · 7
AHRQ$5,379,672 · 25
VA$0 · 453
bioinformatics 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
1James Alexander SeddonStellenbosch University$3,733,9672 gr2Zachary MilesAlida Biosciences, Inc.$3,085,7243 gr3Alireza Hassani NajafabadiTerasaki Institute For Biomedical Innovation$3,065,2521 gr4Teresa N SparksUniversity Of California, San Francisco$2,851,6431 gr5Sean Michael GibbonsInstitute For Systems Biology$2,652,4411 gr6Robert Nathaniel HelsleyUniversity Of Kentucky$2,651,5041 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Michael-Christopher KeoghEpicypher, Inc.$7,404,9665 gr2Zhen ZhaoUniversity Of Southern California$6,530,1835 gr3Bing YuUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$6,193,8653 gr4Oscar HarariWashington University$5,418,2262 gr5Bryan J VentersEpicypher, Inc.$5,371,0485 gr6Matthew G. NayorMassachusetts General Hospital$5,369,4184 gr
All-Time
All years
1Peter D KarpSri International$42,551,8608 gr2Eric A BoerwinkleUniversity Of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston$33,415,7723 gr3Daniel H GeschwindUniversity Of California Los Angeles$32,864,2574 gr4Stephen K BurleyHunter College$28,044,4884 gr5Chuan HeUniversity Of Chicago$22,444,4621 gr6C Ronald KahnJoslin Diabetes Center$18,423,5762 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade