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epilepsy
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$8,901,020,247
Total funding
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peak $540.8M · FY2000–25$1B$750M$500M$250M$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$8,664,456,741 · 23435
NSF$129,523,843 · 245
DOD$78,050,471 · 91
CDC$21,124,400 · 31
FDA$5,634,289 · 9
AHRQ$1,592,503 · 13
USDA$638,000 · 1
VA$0 · 310
epilepsy 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
1Jonathan David WinterVirginia Commonwealth University$2,807,5951 gr2Christine K. FoxUniversity Of California, San Francisco$2,672,0111 gr3Paul TangUniversity Of Michigan At Ann Arbor$2,648,1341 gr4Onur AfacanBoston Children'S Hospital$2,351,5322 gr5Claude SteriadeNew York University School Of Medicine$2,221,2781 gr6Christa Joy NehsMassachusetts General Hospital$2,137,6481 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Santhosh GirirajanPennsylvania State University, The$5,559,8772 gr2Tingwei MuCase Western Reserve University$5,355,1803 gr3Zhengxin CaiYale University$5,095,5062 gr4John L SherwoodLeaflabs, Llc$5,086,0114 gr5Hiroki TaniguchiOhio State University$5,085,1484 gr6Maryam ShanechiUniversity Of Southern California$4,891,2052 gr
All-Time
All years
1Shlomo ShinnarMontefiore Medical Center (Bronx, Ny)$33,927,4723 gr2Christopher A WalshBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center$28,519,4596 gr3Richard C. MohsMount Sinai School Of Medicine Of Nyu$28,186,0202 gr4Daniel L MinorUniversity Of California San Francisco$25,830,9017 gr5Scott Charles BarabanUniversity Of California, San Francisco$24,650,94313 gr6John L. R. RubensteinUniversity Of California, San Francisco$24,547,8366 gr
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