microbiome

Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.

$13,213,592,868

Total funding

23,454

Grants

11

Funding agencies

2004–2026

Years

Funding over time

peak $1.5B · FY2004–26

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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$12,158,757,090 · 21561

NSF$654,740,974 · 1005

USDA$190,826,556 · 355

DOD$83,922,093 · 93

CDC$55,962,578 · 57

DOE$32,191,654 · 17

NASA$23,242,511 · 17

AHRQ$9,150,895 · 21

ATSDR$2,579,036 · 7

FDA$2,219,481 · 19

VA$0 · 302

microbiome leaderboards

Investigator-initiated All funding

Investigatorsi

Rising Stars

First grant in the last 5 yrs

1Christian Furlan FreguiaRise Therapeutics, Llc$4,372,5885 gr 2Ashley Robin WolfUniversity Of California Berkeley$3,015,9633 gr 3Sean Michael GibbonsInstitute For Systems Biology$3,006,2561 gr 4Nathan SchuldtUniversity Of Minnesota$2,999,7741 gr 5Caroline UhlerBroad Institute, Inc.$2,967,4861 gr 6Wenhan ZhuVanderbilt University Medical Center$2,832,0262 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Gary FangerRise Therapeutics, Llc$16,743,61812 gr 2Dong WangHarvard School Of Public Health$8,528,0864 gr 3Akila SubramaniamUniversity Of Alabama At Birmingham$6,547,5442 gr 4Ansel HsiaoUniversity Of California Riverside$5,833,1864 gr 5Ophelia VenturelliUniversity Of Wisconsin-Madison$5,729,5805 gr 6John Patrick HaranUniv Of Massachusetts Med Sch Worcester$5,690,0704 gr

All-Time

All years

1Peter D KarpSri International$22,205,6205 gr 2Andrew T ChanMassachusetts General Hospital$21,131,8746 gr 3Ramnik J XavierBroad Institute, Inc.$18,103,7748 gr 4Floyd E DewhirstForsyth Institute$17,544,9586 gr 5Gary FangerRise Therapeutics, Llc$16,743,61812 gr 6David A RelmanStanford University$15,078,3129 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1University Of California, San Diego$41,507,61065 gr 2Washington University$40,117,30048 gr 3Massachusetts General Hospital$34,086,31544 gr 4Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$34,056,86253 gr 5Emory University$26,746,74937 gr 6University Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$25,452,25139 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1University Of Wisconsin-Madison$260,505,893100 gr 2University Of California, San Diego$234,109,846175 gr 3Emory University$210,987,313125 gr 4Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$207,579,900145 gr 5Washington University$199,276,865124 gr 6Massachusetts General Hospital$194,557,150108 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1Washington University$389,159,077135 gr 2University Of Wisconsin-Madison$321,230,90297 gr 3Baylor College Of Medicine$283,128,005133 gr 4University Of California, San Diego$252,939,931167 gr 5Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$242,568,818138 gr 6Emory University$223,296,231107 gr

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