NIH funding in the biophotonics community

NIH grants awarded to investigators in the Biophotonics community were analyzed using publicly available information on NIH Reporter. Information about the grants, such as activity code, administrating agency, funding agency, total project funding, project abstract, etc. were extracted, and analysis was performed on R. We found that our community receives the most funding from the NCI, the NINDS, and the NHLBI. Most of the grants received are Research and Development grants, specifically R01 grants. We compared the NIH’s overall funding distribution to the funding received by our community to identify areas of strength and areas of opportunity.