← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
drug discovery
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$33,007,538,522
Total funding
61,403
Grants
9
Funding agencies
2000–2026
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peak $3B · FY2000–26$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$31,798,800,695 · 59073
NSF$1,116,031,406 · 1600
DOD$46,935,139 · 38
FDA$26,322,458 · 62
CDC$13,024,578 · 22
AHRQ$3,013,101 · 13
USDA$2,551,640 · 6
NASA$859,504 · 2
VA$0 · 587
drug discovery 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
1Moustafa GabrWeill Medical Coll Of Cornell Univ$5,594,6634 gr2Alexander FederationTalus Bioscience, Inc.$4,432,4254 gr3Kjetil BjornevikHarvard University D/B/A Harvard School Of Public Health$3,280,8611 gr4Simon VuEquator Therapeutics, Inc.$3,142,2741 gr5Galina VidCeramedix Holding, Llc$3,007,0431 gr6Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$2,986,9191 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Michael-Christopher KeoghEpicypher, Inc.$13,964,67810 gr2Thomas DickRbhs-New Jersey Medical School$9,402,8323 gr3Julio Cesar Rojas-MartinezUniversity Of California, San Francisco$7,570,3031 gr4Steven Armen BoydVenatorx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$7,356,7651 gr5Mark HarfoucheRamona Optics, Inc.$6,867,3223 gr6Feixiong ChengCleveland Clinic Lerner Com-Cwru$6,161,3815 gr
All-Time
All years
1Stewart H ShumanSloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Res$27,955,2157 gr2Steven H LiangEmory University$25,006,71513 gr3Margaret A. PhillipsUt Southwestern Medical Center$24,410,9599 gr4Michael W WeinerNorthern California Institute Res &Educ$23,822,2941 gr5Krzysztof PalczewskiUniversity Of California-Irvine$20,739,4562 gr6Stephen L BuchwaldMassachusetts Institute Of Technology$20,718,0603 gr
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