← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
CAR-T
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$4,983,990,155
Total funding
10,223
Grants
11
Funding agencies
2000–2026
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Funding over time
peak $521.3M · FY2000–26$1B$750M$500M$250M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$3,844,789,563 · 8044
NSF$898,102,781 · 1908
DOE$123,795,299 · 13
DOD$72,684,893 · 78
CDC$14,812,450 · 43
NASA$13,628,053 · 18
FDA$10,780,249 · 21
USDA$3,187,540 · 4
AHRQ$2,184,326 · 14
ACF$25,000 · 1
VA$0 · 79
CAR-T 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
1Christopher W PetersonFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$4,927,7513 gr2Saad J. KenderianMayo Clinic Rochester$4,264,7862 gr3Arthur P BertolinoCytoagents, Inc.$3,313,5572 gr4Andras A. HeczeyBaylor College Of Medicine$2,725,6842 gr5Heather Leigh Herd GustafsonSeattle Children'S Hospital$2,399,0991 gr6Hua WangUniversity Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign$2,229,5621 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Joana M MuradCeldara Medical, Llc$6,139,7115 gr2Marco RuellaUniversity Of Pennsylvania$4,797,3494 gr3Yevgeny BrudnoNorth Carolina State University Raleigh$4,300,9864 gr4Giedre KrenciuteSt. Jude Children'S Research Hospital$4,209,9272 gr5Charles Andrew StewartCartesian Therapeutics, Inc.$3,771,6123 gr6Crystal MackallChildren'S Hosp Of Philadelphia$3,511,1752 gr
All-Time
All years
1Marcela Valderrama MausMassachusetts General Hospital$10,949,8564 gr2Gianpietro DottiUniv Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$10,630,6257 gr3Pamela J SkinnerUniversity Of Minnesota$10,270,6438 gr4Wendell A LimUniversity Of California, San Francisco$10,078,1565 gr5Vladimir PonomarevSloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Res$10,027,6297 gr6Wen XieUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$8,777,2664 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade