# Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X (`alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar`) Actor

Turns NIH's free grant database into a ranked lead list: which labs, PIs, and institutions are funded to work on your topic, with award size and funding freshness. Built for lab-equipment sales, CRO business development, and academic recruiting — the list vendors currently build by hand.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar.md
- **Developed by:** [alaudin burki](https://apify.com/alaudinburki) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X

NIH hands out roughly 60,000 grants a year — each one a public record of a
named principal investigator, at a named institution, with a specific
budget, working on a specific topic **right now**. Lab-equipment vendors,
CRO business development teams, and academic recruiters build this list by
hand today, from journal articles and conference badges.

NIH RePORTER already has all of it — structured, free, no key, no login.
This turns "who's funded to work on X" from a research chore into a ranked,
contactable lead list.

### How it works

Searches NIH's own [RePORTER v2 API](https://api.reporter.nih.gov/) by
topic across project titles, terms, and abstracts, then ranks results by
**funding tier** (award size) and **funding freshness** (how much runway is
left) — a sales-relevant signal, not a research one. A well-funded grant
that just started has years of unspent budget; that's the lead worth
prioritizing.

### Input

```json
{ "topics": ["CRISPR screening"], "fiscalYears": "2025", "activeOnly": true }
```

### Sample output

```json
{
  "matchedTopic": "CRISPR screening",
  "projectNumber": "5P30DK020579-48",
  "piName": "Jane Q. Researcher",
  "institution": "WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY",
  "institutionState": "MO",
  "awardAmount": 473761,
  "fundingTier": "substantial",
  "fundingFreshness": "just_started",
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "reporterUrl": "https://reporter.nih.gov/search/results?projectNum=5P30DK020579-48"
}
```

### Typical uses

- **Lab-equipment sales prospecting** — find labs funded to buy the kind of
  instrument you sell, before your competitor's rep does.
- **CRO business development** — surface newly-funded studies that will
  need contract research services.
- **Academic recruiting** — find well-funded labs actively hiring in a
  specific research area.

### Pricing

**$4.00 / 1,000 results** (`$0.004` per lead).

### ⚠️ Read before you act

- **Matching is NIH's own full-text search**, not a strict keyword filter —
  skim the abstract excerpt before reaching out. A topic match doesn't
  guarantee the project is your exact use case.
- **Funding tier and freshness are signals, not guarantees.** A "major"
  tier grant with years of runway is a strong lead; verify budget status
  directly before a high-stakes pitch.
- **Only NIH-funded research is covered.** NSF, DOE, and private foundation
  grants are out of scope for this actor.

### FAQ

- **Do I need an NIH account or API key?** No — the RePORTER API is
  completely free and keyless.
- **Can I search multiple topics at once?** Yes — each topic in the list
  runs as a separate search, results merged and deduplicated by project
  number.
- **What does `activeOnly` do?** Restricts results to grants with runway
  left. Turn it off to include closed-out historical grants too.

### Related actors

- **Grant/RFP Opportunity Radar** — the same "official public database as
  a lead list" pattern, for federal contract opportunities via SAM.gov.
- **SEC EDGAR Filings** — another official-data-as-signal actor, for
  material corporate events instead of research funding.

# Actor input Schema

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Topics to search for in NIH grant titles, terms, and abstracts, e.g. mass spectrometry, CRISPR screening. Each topic is a separate search.

## `fiscalYears` (type: `string`):

Space or comma separated NIH fiscal years to search, e.g. 2024, 2025. Leave empty for all years.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only return grants that are currently active (have runway left, an unspent budget). Turn off to also include closed-out historical grants.

## `minAwardAmount` (type: `integer`):

Discard grants funded below this amount. Leave empty for no minimum.

## `maxResultsPerTopic` (type: `integer`):

How many NIH RePORTER results to pull per topic search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on items returned across all topics. You are never charged beyond this.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "topics": [
    "CRISPR screening"
  ],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResultsPerTopic": 50,
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Funded labs/PIs matching your topics, ranked by award size.

## `qualityReport` (type: `string`):

Topics searched, matches per topic, and problems.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "topics": [
        "CRISPR screening"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "topics": ["CRISPR screening"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "topics": [
    "CRISPR screening"
  ]
}' |
apify call alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alaudinburki/funded-lab-radar"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/0NiDvcUfNlOKsFLij/builds/xBzJ8gvneI6WcBuBG/openapi.json