← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
obesity
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$38,470,370,877
Total funding
88,094
Grants
13
Funding agencies
2000–2025
Years
Funding over time
peak $2.6B · FY2000–25$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$37,493,331,088 · 84406
CDC$503,791,955 · 747
USDA$227,426,147 · 353
NSF$142,625,677 · 389
AHRQ$68,961,658 · 178
DOD$24,509,926 · 48
FDA$9,279,650 · 23
ACF$199,521 · 3
NASA$149,833 · 1
HHS (Other)$95,422 · 2
ATSDR$0 · 1
VA$0 · 1942
SAMHSA$0 · 1
obesity 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
1Erik A WillisUniv Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$4,390,2542 gr2Linus Tzu-Yen TsaiBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center$3,279,6262 gr3Joshuaa Dominic Allison-BurbankJohns Hopkins University$3,158,7611 gr4Cody NeshterukDuke University$3,145,0561 gr5Simon VuEquator Therapeutics, Inc.$3,142,2741 gr6Alireza Hassani NajafabadiTerasaki Institute For Biomedical Innovation$3,065,2521 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Alberto Rafael RamosUniversity Of Miami School Of Medicine$11,170,4231 gr2Claudia L SatizabalBoston University Medical Campus$10,586,7462 gr3Vaia Lida ChatziUniversity Of Southern California$8,974,9594 gr4Pankaj AroraUniversity Of Alabama At Birmingham$8,813,1543 gr5Stephanie Paige GoldsteinMiriam Hospital$6,556,6134 gr6Ryan Lee MinsterUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$6,304,7441 gr
All-Time
All years
1Jose A LuchsingerColumbia University Health Sciences$60,700,9336 gr2Bruce M SpiegelmanDana-Farber Cancer Inst$39,105,1389 gr3William J. BlotVanderbilt University$36,941,1691 gr4Joseph E. DonnellyUniversity Of Kansas Lawrence$30,486,04915 gr5Kerri N BoutelleUniversity Of Minnesota Twin Cities$29,766,44210 gr6Mitchell A. LazarUniversity Of Pennsylvania$26,081,5945 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade
All-Time
Cumulative funding
1University Of California Los Angeles$526,464,46090 gr2Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill$476,495,714122 gr3University Of Pennsylvania$457,684,316110 gr4Johns Hopkins University$452,327,025129 gr5Columbia University Health Sciences$380,200,002115 gr6University Of Alabama At Birmingham$378,110,623101 gr