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Medical research charts
6 charts about medical research, each with its public source, its numbers and its date.
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How much does NIH spend on medical research each year?
NIH funded $42.2 billion of research projects in fiscal 2025, up from $27.8 billion in 2012, before adjusting for inflation. The most in a year was $43.6 bil...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025
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How much does NIH spend on opioid research?
NIH funded $825 million of opioid research in fiscal 2025. The category began in fiscal 2018, when NIH launched its HEAL Initiative on addiction and pain par...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health), Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025
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Which states get the most NIH research money?
California's universities, hospitals and companies received $5.25 billion of NIH research funding in fiscal 2025, the most of any state, followed by New York...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025
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Which NIH institutes spend the most on research?
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) spent the most of NIH's institutes and centers in fiscal 2025, $6.6 billion of the $42.2 billion in research projects, fo...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025
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How much does NIH spend researching major diseases?
Cancer research got the most NIH money of these major diseases in fiscal 2025, $6.97 billion, followed by HIV/AIDS ($3.95 billion) and Alzheimer's and relate...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health), Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025
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How much has NIH's Alzheimer's research funding grown?
NIH funded $2.99 billion of research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in fiscal 2025, 5.8 times the $518 million in 2015, the first year of this ...
Source: NIH RePORTER (National Institutes of Health), Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) · Data as of Sep 30, 2025