California

CARank #1

NIH Funding · FY2026

Total Funding

$2.6B

Fiscal year 2026

Grants Awarded

4,467

Active NIH grants

Funded PIs

4,743

Principal investigators

Institutions in California

50 NIH-funded institutions in California, ranked by total funding in FY2026.

Rank	Institution	City	Type	Funding	Grants	PIs
#1	University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco	School Of Medicine	$434.5M	828	846
#2	Stanford University	Stanford	School Of Medicine	$345.4M	610	612
#3	University of California, San Diego	La Jolla	School Of Medicine	$313M	534	567
#4	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$263.4M	479	539
#5	University of California at Davis	Davis	University	$185.1M	299	314
#6	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$153.8M	246	303
#7	University of California-Irvine	Irvine	University	$124.2M	246	283
#8	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	University	$83.1M	179	173
#9	Scripps Research Institute	La Jolla	Research Institute	$73.2M	108	118
#10	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Los Angeles	Hospital	$64.5M	104	125
#11	Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope	Duarte	Research Institute	$48.7M	71	101
#12	Kaiser Foundation Research Institute	Oakland	Research Institute	$41.1M	50	70
#13	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena	Research Institute	$29.2M	50	45
#14	University of California Riverside	Riverside	University	$23.8M	54	59
#15	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	La Jolla	Research Institute	$22.7M	32	37
#16	J. David Gladstone Institutes	San Francisco	Research Institute	$22.5M	30	27
#17	Salk Institute for Biological Studies	La Jolla	Research Institute	$22.3M	41	44
#18	San Diego State University	San Diego	University	$20.3M	50	50
#19	University of California Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	University	$19.4M	40	40
#20	La Jolla Institute for Immunology	La Jolla	Research Institute	$17.5M	25	19
#21	Children's Hospital of Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Hospital	$16.1M	31	34
#22	University of California Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	University	$12.4M	29	33
#23	Rand Corporation	Santa Monica	Other	$11.5M	16	25
#24	Northern California Institute/Res/Edu	San Francisco	Research Institute	$10.8M	12	25
#25	Buck Institute for Research On Aging	Novato	Research Institute	$7.8M	13	11
#26	Palo Alto Veterans Instit for Research	Palo Alto	Other	$7.7M	14	14
#27	J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc.	La Jolla	Research Institute	$7.5M	4	3
#28	Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-Ucla Medical Center	Torrance	Hospital	$7.4M	15	20
#29	Cog Research Foundation, Llc	Arcadia	Research Institute	$6.5M	1	1
#30	University of California, Merced	Merced	University	$5.8M	14	15
#31	Loma Linda University	Loma Linda	School Of Medicine	$5.7M	9	13
#32	University of Calif-Lawrenc Berkeley Lab	Berkeley	University	$5.7M	10	11
#33	Chapman University	Orange	University	$5.5M	8	14
#34	SRI International	Menlo Park	Other	$5.2M	6	6
#35	Public Health Foundation Enterprises	City of Industry	Research Institute	$4.2M	6	10
#36	San Diego Biomedical Research Institute	San Diego	Research Institute	$4.1M	7	7
#37	Charles R. Drew University of Med & Sci	Los Angeles	School Of Medicine	$3.6M	7	14
#38	Reacx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	South San Francisco	Other	$3.5M	1	1
#39	Scintillon Institute for Photobiology	San Diego	Research Institute	$3.3M	6	6
#40	Artery Therapeutics, Inc.	San Ramon	Other	$2.6M	1	1
#41	Western University of Health Sciences	Pomona	School Of Medicine	$2.4M	7	9
#42	Eicosis, Llc	Davis	Other	$2.4M	1	2
#43	Veterans Medical Research Fdn/San Diego	San Diego	Other	$2.1M	6	7
#44	Institute for Molecular Medicine	Huntington Beach	Research Institute	$2.1M	1	3
#45	Rejuvenation Technologies, Inc.	Mountain View	Other	$2.1M	1	1
#46	Endomet Biosciences, Inc	Irvine	Other	$2M	1	1
#47	San Francisco State University	San Francisco	University	$2M	7	8
#48	Evidation Health, Inc.	Menlo Park	Other	$2M	1	3
#49	Vivreon Biosciences, Llc	San Diego	Other	$1.9M	1	1
#50	Applied Biomedical Science Institute	San Diego	Research Institute	$1.9M	2	1