California

CARank #1

NIH Funding · FY2024

Total Funding

$4.8B

Fiscal year 2024

Grants Awarded

9,035

Active NIH grants

Funded PIs

7,984

Principal investigators

Institutions in California

50 NIH-funded institutions in California, ranked by total funding in FY2024.

Rank	Institution	City	Type	Funding	Grants	PIs
#1	University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco	School Of Medicine	$760.9M	1,490	1,301
#2	Stanford University	Stanford	School Of Medicine	$562.3M	1,164	994
#3	University of California, San Diego	La Jolla	School Of Medicine	$533.5M	1,046	901
#4	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$463M	896	881
#5	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$327.3M	536	521
#6	University of California at Davis	Davis	University	$251.5M	579	523
#7	University of California-Irvine	Irvine	University	$211.9M	494	465
#8	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	University	$152.2M	354	308
#9	Scripps Research Institute	La Jolla	Research Institute	$150.1M	197	155
#10	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Los Angeles	Hospital	$97.7M	177	181
#11	Kaiser Foundation Research Institute	Oakland	Research Institute	$78.5M	120	129
#12	Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope	Duarte	Research Institute	$69.8M	144	153
#13	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena	Research Institute	$58.7M	111	95
#14	Salk Institute for Biological Studies	La Jolla	Research Institute	$58.4M	76	73
#15	Public Health Institute	Oakland	Research Institute	$46M	19	22
#16	University of California Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	University	$46M	91	82
#17	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	La Jolla	Research Institute	$39.9M	62	60
#18	University of California Riverside	Riverside	University	$39.7M	94	91
#19	Rand Corporation	Santa Monica	Other	$36.9M	57	76
#20	J. David Gladstone Institutes	San Francisco	Research Institute	$35.1M	50	48
#21	SRI International	Menlo Park	Other	$34.4M	38	29
#22	San Diego State University	San Diego	University	$33.1M	90	86
#23	Children's Hospital of Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Hospital	$29.2M	57	58
#24	La Jolla Institute for Immunology	La Jolla	Research Institute	$27.2M	46	28
#25	California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute	San Francisco	Hospital	$22.7M	5	14
#26	University of California Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	University	$22.6M	67	58
#27	Color Health, Inc.	Burlingame	Other	$20.7M	1	1
#28	Buck Institute for Research On Aging	Novato	Research Institute	$19.6M	39	29
#29	Revagenix, Inc.	San Mateo	Other	$17.9M	2	2
#30	University of Calif-Lawrenc Berkeley Lab	Berkeley	University	$17.4M	25	31
#31	Northern California Institute/Res/Edu	San Francisco	Research Institute	$12.3M	23	30
#32	Palo Alto Veterans Instit for Research	Palo Alto	Other	$10.7M	23	24
#33	Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-Ucla Medical Center	Torrance	Hospital	$9.1M	25	34
#34	Loma Linda University	Loma Linda	School Of Medicine	$7.9M	17	19
#35	Hungry Heart Media, Inc.	Los Angeles	Other	$7.8M	1	1
#36	San Diego Biomedical Research Institute	San Diego	Research Institute	$7.1M	14	9
#37	University of California, Merced	Merced	University	$6.9M	19	18
#38	Forge Therapeutics, Inc.	San Diego	Other	$6.3M	1	1
#39	Molecular Express, Inc.	Rancho Dominguez	Other	$6M	3	2
#40	Ccs Associates, Inc.	San Jose	Other	$5.9M	6	6
#41	Chapman University	Orange	University	$5.7M	12	17
#42	Charles R. Drew University of Med & Sci	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$5.2M	13	18
#43	San Francisco State University	San Francisco	University	$5.2M	12	13
#44	California State University Northridge	Northridge	University	$4.9M	19	24
#45	Anivive Lifesciences, Inc	Long Beach	Other	$4.9M	1	1
#46	Verily Life Sciences LLC	South San Francisco	Other	$4.8M	1	2
#47	Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.	La Jolla	Other	$4.6M	1	1
#48	Scintillon Institute for Photobiology	San Diego	Research Institute	$4.3M	9	7
#49	California State Dept/Food/Agriculture	Sacramento	Other	$4.2M	4	4
#50	Biocorrx Pharmaceuticals Inc	Anaheim	Other	$4.1M	1	1