← TopicsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
vaccine development
Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.
$52,023,531,985
Total funding
76,613
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Funding agencies
2000–2025
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Funding over time
peak $3.6B · FY2000–25$5B$3.8B$2.5B$1.3B$0
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Who funds this — by agency
NIH$50,952,207,924 · 74335
NSF$446,136,086 · 729
CDC$353,688,398 · 535
DOD$109,563,772 · 53
USDA$90,585,312 · 191
FDA$51,158,551 · 92
AHRQ$14,871,418 · 79
ATSDR$4,249,999 · 4
NASA$1,070,525 · 2
VA$0 · 593
vaccine development 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
1Jeff T HutchinsInhalon Biopharma, Inc.$9,192,2726 gr2Weston DanielEvoq Therapeutics, Inc.$4,557,2433 gr3Dhiraj Kumar SinghTexas Biomedical Research Institute$3,900,7561 gr4Trevor Adam CrowellHenry M. Jackson Fdn For The Adv Mil/Med$3,822,2511 gr5Magnus Adrian Gero HoffmannCalifornia Institute Of Technology$3,559,7501 gr6Torben SchiffnerVanderbilt University$3,383,6341 gr
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
1Gary FangerRise Therapeutics, Llc$17,017,1308 gr2Ivelin GeorgievVanderbilt University Medical Center$10,430,5793 gr3Facundo Damian BatistaMassachusetts General Hospital$9,358,4754 gr4Christian HardingVaxnewmo, Llc$8,894,2124 gr5Raiees Ahmad AndrabiScripps Research Institute, The$8,644,7125 gr6Mariette BarbierWest Virginia University$7,964,3323 gr
All-Time
All years
1Stephen Lev HoffmanSanaria, Inc.$49,038,0698 gr2David I WatkinsGeorge Washington University$43,085,29311 gr3Charles M. RiceRockefeller University$35,125,77414 gr4Michael S. DiamondUniversity Of Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh$28,528,85715 gr5Marcus Aaron HorwitzUniversity Of California San Francisco$28,164,43010 gr6George M ShawUniversity Of Pennsylvania$27,182,27110 gr
Institutions
Last 2 Years
Funding won recently
Last 10 Years
Funding over the decade