Neurosciences

basic

NIH Funding · FY2026

Total Funding

$451.8M

Fiscal year 2026

Schools

Institutions with this department

Funded PIs

954

Principal investigators

68 institutions ranked by Neurosciences department funding in FY2026.

Rank	Institution	Location	Funding	Grants	PIs
#1	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	New York, NY	$32.4M	51	47
#2	University of California, San Diego	La Jolla, CA	$22M	35	39
#3	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	$17M	36	35
#4	Weill Cornell Medicine	New York, NY	$16.9M	27	34
#5	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	$16.7M	27	31
#6	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, MN	$15.5M	40	36
#7	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	$15.1M	32	38
#8	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	New York, NY	$15.1M	27	29
#9	Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winston-Salem, NC	$13.7M	25	26
#10	Yale University	New Haven, CT	$13.5M	30	29
#11	Columbia University	New York, NY	$13.3M	33	36
#12	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	$12M	26	28
#13	Penn State College of Medicine	Hershey, PA	$12M	12	17
#14	Baylor College of Medicine	Houston, TX	$11.1M	28	22
#15	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	$10.8M	20	15
#16	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	$10.3M	13	13
#17	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, MO	$9.1M	19	18
#18	Duke University	Durham, NC	$9.1M	19	17
#19	University of Rochester	Rochester, NY	$9M	22	23
#20	Ohio State University	Columbus, OH	$8.9M	18	19
#21	University of Oregon	Eugene, OR	$8.9M	12	15
#22	Medical University of South Carolina	Charleston, SC	$8.6M	22	20
#23	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Dallas, TX	$8M	14	16
#24	University of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT	$7.7M	18	16
#25	Rush University Medical Center	Chicago, IL	$7.5M	9	9