Funding
Linked award amount
Total award dollars on a researcher’s NIH records in one fiscal year. Multi-PI awards count in full for each PI.
At a glance
Researchers named on NIH awards in FY2016.
- Researchers
- 41,480
- Median
- $386,232
- Half are at or below
- Middle half
- $202,500 to $730,204
- 25th to 75th percentile
- 90th percentile
- $1,481,854
- 9 in 10 are at or below
Researchers by linked award amount
Each bar counts the researchers in one range. Each range starts about three times higher than the one before ($10K, $30K, $100K and so on). Select a bar to list them below.
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| Range | Researchers | Share of researchers |
|---|---|---|
| Under $10K | 183 | 0.4% |
| $10K to under $30K | 723 | 1.7% |
| $30K to under $100K | 4,175 | 10.1% |
| $100K to under $300K | 9,619 | 23.2% |
| $300K to under $1M | 19,860 | 47.9% |
| $1M to under $3M | 5,507 | 13.3% |
| $3M to under $10M | 1,225 | 3% |
| $10M or more | 188 | 0.5% |
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Showing 188 researchers with linked award amount $10M or more.Show all researchers
188 researchers · Page 1. Table bars compare sizes within this page.
| Researcher | Linked award amount |
|---|---|
$594,024,212 | |
| Humphreys, Betsy | $300,605,102 |
| Heimbrook, David | $261,186,982 |
| Lowy, Douglas R. | $64,880,671 |
| Settaala, Rashid | $59,220,293 |
| Smith, Ian | $58,281,903 |
| Williams, Mickey | $57,230,985 |
| Schwartz, Richard | $52,192,240 |
| Graham, Barney | $45,495,866 |
| Steakley, Caryn | $42,940,471 |
| Topol, Eric Jeffrey | $42,499,376 |
| Lee, Jeannette Y. | $41,724,805 |
| Baseler, Elizabeth | $39,840,312 |
| Currier, Judith S. | $35,812,481 |
| Nickerson, Deborah | $35,131,320 |
| Lachin, John M | $34,234,831 |
| Krischer, Jeffrey P | $34,161,947 |
| Ferrucci, Luigi | $33,332,528 |
| Gibbs, Richard | $33,282,900 |
| Driver, Barbara | $33,197,048 |
| Weir, David R. | $31,915,299 |
| Nepom, Gerald T | $31,901,976 |
| Haynes, Barton F. | $31,829,624 |
| Corey, Lawrence | $30,658,828 |
| Dakum, Patrick | $30,579,305 |
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