NIH Funded Investigators

US biomedical research funding as one row per principal investigator — with institution, city, state, UEI, award amount and funding window.

No login. No API key. No proxies.

One row per person, not per project

NIH RePORTER returns a project with its investigators buried in a nested array. For anyone selling into research — lab equipment, reagents, CRO services, software, recruitment — that is the wrong shape. A programme with four principal investigators is four people to contact, at a named institution, with a known budget.

Measured on FY2025 Alzheimer's research:

	Value
Investigators per project	2.73
Contacts lost by exporting per project	63 %
Co-investigators as a share of contacts	55 %
Rows carrying institution UEI and city	99–100 %

Turn on Contact investigator only and you get the single person NIH corresponds with — a shorter, higher-authority list. Leave it off and you reach the co-investigators too, who run much of the actual work.

Output

Field	Example
investigatorName	Benjamin Levine Ebert
investigatorTitle, isContactPi	PROFESSOR, true
organization	DANA-FARBER CANCER INST
orgCity, orgState, orgZip, orgCountry	Boston, MA
orgUei, orgDuns	federal identifiers, join to USAspending
departmentType	SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE
awardAmountUsd	12713161
projectNumber, projectTitle	5P01AG052350-08
projectStartDate, projectEndDate	funding window
activityCode, awardType, fundingAgency	P01, NIA
researchTerms	indexed topic terms, flattened
projectUrl	link to the RePORTER record

projectEndDate is the one to sort by for outreach: a grant ending in nine months is a renewal conversation, and a budget about to be re-spent.

orgUei is the same identifier USAspending uses, so this output joins directly to federal contract data.

Input

{
  "searchText": "Alzheimer",
  "fiscalYears": [2025],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Field	Default	Notes
searchText	Alzheimer	Titles, abstracts and indexed terms
fiscalYears	[2025]	NIH years run October to September
maxItems	500	Counts investigators, not projects
contactPiOnly	false	Only the corresponding investigator
orgStates	—	e.g. ["CA", "MA"]
organizations	—	Exact names as NIH spells them
piLastName	—	One investigator
minAwardUsd	—	Filters small awards

Use cases

• Life-science sales — territory lists by topic and state, with the researcher, the institution and the budget.
• CRO and service business development — who is funded to run what, and until when.
• Competitive and landscape analysis — which institutions dominate a research area, and at what scale.
• Recruitment — named investigators and their titles by speciality.
• Grant strategy — what NIH actually funds in a field, with amounts.

Limits, honestly

• RePORTER stops paginating past 15,000 projects. The Actor warns rather than looping; narrow the topic, year or state to reach deeper.
• searchText matches abstracts and indexed terms, so a broad word returns adjacent research. Check projectTitle and researchTerms on the rows.
• awardAmountUsd is the amount for that project record in that fiscal year, not the lifetime value of a multi-year programme — and it repeats on each investigator row of the same project. Deduplicate on projectNumber before summing.
• Institution names are not normalised at the source: Harvard appears both as HARVARD UNIVERSITY and HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD….
• Names and titles are personal data published on a public federal registry. Using them for outreach in the EU or UK makes you the data controller.
• Requests are paced out of courtesy to a free public service.
• Not affiliated with the NIH.