← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$4,314,200,342
Total funding
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$4,287,088,285 · 9752
DOD$15,074,804 · 24
FDA$8,321,989 · 14
NSF$3,615,264 · 9
AHRQ$100,000 · 2
VA$0 · 183
checkpoint inhibitor 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
1Xu ChenUniversity Of California, San Francisco$3,581,2852 gr2Yuwen ZhuUniversity Of Colorado Denver$3,496,5943 gr3Ioannis VlachosBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center$3,412,1202 gr4Rana Ramzi McKayUniversity Of California, San Diego$2,984,4951 gr5Reeder McNeil RobinsonLeukogene Therapeutics, Inc.$2,940,2112 gr6Mark YarchoanJohns Hopkins University$2,710,7922 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Amaia LujambioIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$5,283,9503 gr2Kian H LimWashington University$5,180,1544 gr3J. Silvio GutkindUniversity Of California, San Diego$3,906,9233 gr4Stephanie L. SchmitH. Lee Moffitt Cancer Ctr & Res Inst$3,858,7232 gr5Benjamin IzarDana-Farber Cancer Inst$3,828,1313 gr6Jianjun GaoUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$3,787,1993 gr
All-Time
All years
1Don W. ClevelandUniversity Of California San Diego$13,779,5222 gr2Antoni RibasUniversity Of California Los Angeles$9,456,2701 gr3Judith A. VarnerUniversity Of California San Diego$9,093,1143 gr4Junjie ChenUniversity Of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr$8,737,0625 gr5Peng WuScripps Research Institute, The$8,067,8212 gr6Elias SayourUniversity Of Florida$8,032,6893 gr
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