If NIH funding were determined only by the burden of disease, these bubbles would remain in the same size order. Instead, when ranked by funding amount, diseases that affect mainly women drop down.

Use NPR's interactive search box to create year-by-year charts of National Institutes of Health grants awarded to individual U.S. biomedical institutions and laboratories since 2000.

The NIH’s approach to funding scientists is unique in the world, says Merad. NIH grants often allow researchers to focus on scientific problems for four or five years without the need to raise ...

The NIH called the $9 billion slice of the pie “administrative overhead. ... said the NIH’s announced intention to lower its funding for indirect costs won’t hurt the core research.

NIH’s plan to cut what it pays universities and other entities for indirect costs associated with scientific research would create “extremely challenging” short- and long-term ...