How much has NIH's Alzheimer's research funding grown?
NIH funded $3.0 billion of research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in fiscal 2025, nearly six times the $518 million in 2015, the first year of this NIH category, after Congress raised Alzheimer's funding almost every year from 2016. These are totals of the projects listed in RePORTER, so they differ somewhat from NIH's published category estimates.
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Source and date
- Source
- NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health), Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC)
- Data as of
- Published
The data
| Fiscal year | NIH funding (dollars) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 518,320,086 |
| 2016 | 854,825,408 |
| 2017 | 1,256,931,713 |
| 2018 | 1,633,831,662 |
| 2019 | 1,944,444,169 |
| 2020 | 2,310,926,338 |
| 2021 | 2,555,589,599 |
| 2022 | 2,705,854,664 |
| 2023 | 2,867,641,399 |
| 2024 | 3,021,103,859 |
| 2025 | 2,991,568,139 |