← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
inflammation
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$66,470,872,691
Total funding
164,552
Grants
10
Funding agencies
2000–2025
Years
Funding over time
peak $4.9B · FY2000–25$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$65,950,059,782 · 158832
NSF$189,984,350 · 368
DOD$128,477,621 · 136
CDC$92,119,752 · 220
USDA$64,353,102 · 172
FDA$29,549,929 · 88
NASA$9,829,586 · 14
AHRQ$4,299,840 · 12
ATSDR$2,198,729 · 5
VA$0 · 4705
inflammation 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
1Yanling WangRush University Medical Center$5,926,4682 gr2John ParkinsonThetis Pharmaceuticals, Llc$4,722,1582 gr3Paul TangUniversity Of Michigan At Ann Arbor$4,692,0332 gr4Jeff T HutchinsInhalon Biopharma, Inc.$4,076,2923 gr5David JacksonCeria Therapeutics, Inc.$4,064,8672 gr6Sarah Elizabeth LutzUniversity Of Illinois At Chicago$3,911,5643 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Jacob D EstesOregon Health & Science University$14,061,6085 gr2Gary FangerRise Therapeutics, Llc$9,572,7465 gr3Niccolo TerrandoDuke University$9,032,8344 gr4Mayur B PatelVanderbilt University Medical Center$8,480,1132 gr5Geoffrey Roger HillFred Hutchinson Cancer Center$6,826,4652 gr6Ian R LanzaMayo Clinic Rochester$6,522,2753 gr
All-Time
All years
1Randall J BatemanWashington University$67,038,3852 gr2James J LahEmory University$35,158,2351 gr3Richard S BlumbergChildren'S Hospital Boston$31,109,4035 gr4William J. BlotVanderbilt University$26,782,5421 gr5Angela L. JeffersonVanderbilt University Medical Center$24,061,7472 gr6Karen J CruickshanksUniversity Of Wisconsin Madison$21,567,3372 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
1Washington University$125,814,060205 gr2Massachusetts General Hospital$116,363,210176 gr3University Of California, San Francisco$113,899,528180 gr4University Of California, San Diego$104,815,282161 gr5Johns Hopkins University$102,754,568160 gr6University Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$100,271,687199 gr
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade
1Massachusetts General Hospital$613,780,951185 gr2University Of California, San Francisco$534,432,598199 gr3Johns Hopkins University$528,490,583192 gr4Washington University$477,390,870166 gr5Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$450,711,81114 gr6University Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$407,994,497179 gr
All-Time
Cumulative funding