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Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC)
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Table Published: February 14, 2011

This table displays the annual support level for various research, condition, and disease categories based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms used across the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

At the request of Congress, the NIH embarked on a process to provide better consistency and transparency in the reporting of its funded research. This new process, implemented in 2008 through the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system, uses sophisticated text data mining (categorizing and clustering using words and multiword phrases) in conjunction with NIH-wide definitions used to match projects to categories. The definitions are a list of terms and concepts selected by NIH scientific experts to define a research category. The research category levels represent the NIH’s best estimates based on the category definitions.

The NIH does not expressly budget by category. The annual estimates reflect amounts that change as a result of science, actual research projects funded, and the NIH budget. The research categories are not mutually exclusive. Individual research projects can be included in multiple categories so amounts depicted within each column of this table do not add up to 100 percent of NIH-funded research.

Consistent with the Administration’s emphasis on transparency, two separate columns are used to distinguish FY 2009 and FY 2010 actual support funded from American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) accounts from projects funded by regular NIH appropriations.

The FY2007 data were produced from a reporting process historically used by NIH. The technical elements of the previous reporting process did not have the ability to produce uniform results and led to wide variability in the way research categories were coded. This process caused inconsistencies in reporting data. RCDC use of data mining improves the consistency and eliminates the wide variability in defining the research categories reported. The table shows historical data for FY2007 and data produced with the new RCDC methodology for FY2007 through FY2010. The FY 2011-2012 estimates are based on RCDC actual data.

Total Number of Research/Disease Areas: 229

Table data as of March 15, 2011

Research/Disease Areas
(Dollars in millions and rounded)		FY 2007
Actual

NIH Historical Method 10/		FY 2007
Actual

NIH Revised Method 10/		FY 2008
Actual		FY 2009
Actual

(Non-ARRA)		FY 2009
Actual

(ARRA) 11/		FY 2010
Actual

(Non-ARRA)		FY 2010
Actual

(ARRA) 11/		FY 2011
Estimated		FY 2012
Estimated
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome $48 $87 $82 $103 $17 $110 $22 $110 $112
Adolescent Sexual Activity - ** N/A N/A N/A $80 $7 $80 $81
Agent Orange & Dioxin $18 $15 $13 $13 $2 $11 $1 $11 $11
Aging $2,462 $1,879 $1,965 $3,015 $554 $2,517 $443 $2,517 $2,562
Alcoholism $521 $443 $452 $441 $75 $454 $65 $454 $461
Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever) $5 $7 $6 $4 $1 $3 $1 $3 $3
ALS $39 $40 $43 $43 $13 $47 $12 $47 $47
Alzheimer's Disease $645 $411 $412 $457 $77 $450 $79 $450 $458
American Indians / Alaska Natives $141 $159 $142 $169 $19 $151 $16 $150 $154
Anorexia $12 $8 $7 $8 $2 $9 $2 $9 $9
Anthrax $105 $160 $134 $102 $13 $118 $12 $118 $121
Antimicrobial Resistance $269 $209 $228 $251 $52 $356 $66 $350 $358
Aphasia $14 $20 $22 $22 $3 $21 $1 $21 $21
Arctic $19 $25 $22 $28 $6 $34 $3 $34 $34
Arthritis $339 $222 $232 $246 $65 $249 $59 $249 $253
Assistive Technology $184 $192 $215 $249 $43 $250 $48 $250 $254
Asthma $294 $252 $246 $284 $51 $244 $33 $244 $248
Ataxia Telangiectasia $11 $14 $13 $13 $2 $12 $1 $12 $12
Atherosclerosis $347 $468 $460 $495 $112 $544 $104 $544 $553
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) $107 $61 $60 $71 $13 $66 $15 $66 $68
Autism $127 $93 $118 $132 $64 $160 $58 $160 $163
Autoimmune Disease $587 $759 $762 $879 $138 $856 $125 $855 $869
Basic Behavioral and Social Science $1,104 $1,119 $1,149 $1,410 $206 $1,163 $198 $1,163 $1,184
Batten Disease $8 $5 $5 $5 $2 $5 $1 $5 $5
Behavioral and Social Science $3,060 $3,157 $3,215 $3,471 $582 $3,526 $603 $3,525 $3,590
Biodefense 1/ $1,735 $1,735 $1,736 $1,755 $213 $1,794 $221 $1,549 $1,853
Bioengineering $1,469 $2,610 $2,853 $3,155 $569 $3,166 $760 $3,162 $3,225
Biotechnology $9,814 $5,344 $5,179 $5,619 $1,051 $5,682 $1,203 $5,675 $5,808
Brain Cancer $193 $204 $194 $234 $42 $274 $36 $274 $279
Brain Disorders $4,670 $3,592 $3,729 $3,538 $685 $3,847 $619 $3,845 $3,915
Breast Cancer $707 $729 $726 $722 $111 $763 $61 $763 $778
Burden of Illness $524 $60 $48 $43 $11 $48 $8 $48 $49
Cancer $5,643 $5,549 $5,570 $5,629 $1,120 $5,823 $803 $5,823 $5,934
Cardiovascular $2,370 $1,942 $2,027 $2,008 $396 $2,144 $398 $2,143 $2,180
Cerebral Palsy $16 $30 $28 $21 $4 $19 $3 $19 $19
Cervical Cancer $96 $67 $69 $84 $15 $93 $8 $93 $95
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease $7 $9 $12 $14 $2 $15 $1 $15 $16
Child Abuse and Neglect Research $38 $41 $30 $32 $5 $32 $5 $32 $33
Childhood Leukemia $55 $50 $39 $47 $12 $55 $12 $54 $55
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) $4 $4 $4 $5 $0 $6 $0 $6 $6
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis $379 $253 $241 $274 $37 $284 $45 $284 $289
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease $91 $72 $75 $96 $18 $118 $15 $118 $120
Climate Change $47 $4 $4 $4 $2 $4 $2 $4 $5
Clinical Research $9,116 $9,862 $9,629 $10,336 $1,854 $10,720 $1,540 $10,707 $10,908
Clinical Trials $2,949 $3,422 $3,562 $2,966 $485 $3,286 $356 $3,282 $3,343
Colo-Rectal Cancer $282 $273 $274 $281 $48 $291 $26 $291 $297
Comparative Effectiveness Research - ** + $194 $246 $558 $320 $558 $568
Complementary and Alternative Medicine $299 $426 $430 $513 $70 $521 $55 $521 $531
Conditions affecting unborn children $110 $81 $81 $95 $8 $98 $21 $98 $99
Contraception/Reproduction $314 $460 $473 $427 $65 $419 $56 $419 $426
Cooley's Anemia $34 $22 $22 $21 $3 $20 $3 $20 $20
Cost Effectiveness Research $155 $50 $49 $52 $16 $80 $14 $80 $82
Crohn's Disease $69 $47 $51 $55 $14 $66 $12 $66 $68
Cystic Fibrosis $82 $78 $90 $86 $13 $86 $13 $86 $88
Dental/Oral and Craniofacial Disease $417 $484 $463 $490 $75 $497 $67 $497 $506
Depression $345 $398 $402 $402 $48 $420 $50 $420 $428
Diabetes 2/ $1,037 $1,069 $1,080 $1,030 $121 $1,046 $153 $1,044 $1,060
Diagnostic Radiology $694 $1,046 $1,095 $976 $206 $1,073 $280 $1,072 $1,091
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) $6 $5 $4 $4 $1 $4 $1 $4 $4
Digestive Diseases $1,234 $1,460 $1,426 $1,538 $243 $1,657 $228 $1,656 $1,687
Digestive Diseases - (Gallbladder) $6 $6 $7 $7 $1 $5 $0 $5 $5
Digestive Diseases - (Peptic Ulcer) $23 $15 $14 $17 $3 $30 $3 $30 $30
Down Syndrome $16 $16 $17 $18 $4 $22 $6 $22 $22
Drug Abuse (NIDA Only) 3/ 13/ $1,001 $1,001 $1,007 $1,040 $135 $1,067 $125 $1,059 $1,080
Duchenne/ Becker Muscular Dystrophy $23 $23 $22 $27 $6 $33 $5 $33 $34
Dystonia $16 $18 $15 $16 $2 $14 $1 $14 $14
Eating Disorders 4/ - ** + $26 $5 $28 $4 $28 $29
Emerging Infectious Diseases $1,816 $1,733 $2,098 $2,080 $307 $2,118 $350 $2,117 $2,161
Emphysema $21 $30 $29 $28 $11 $23 $9 $23 $23
Endometriosis $12 $12 $15 $15 $2 $15 $1 $15 $15
Epilepsy $105 $145 $145 $128 $21 $134 $27 $134 $137
Estrogen $164 $283 $245 $235 $34 $231 $23 $231 $235
Eye Disease And Disorders Of Vision $714 $800 $796 $862 $129 $817 $110 $817 $831
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy $4 $3 $3 $3 $2 $5 $1 $5 $5
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome $34 $32 $34 $34 $7 $33 $5 $33 $34
Fibroid Tumors (Uterine) $14 $20 $16 $18 $2 $12 $2 $12 $12
Fibromyalgia $9 $11 $12 $11 $2 $9 $0 $9 $9
Food Safety $278 $230 $244 $262 $37 $290 $35 $290 $295
Fragile X Syndrome $27 $22 $26 $27 $5 $25 $4 $25 $26
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) $31 $17 $17 $22 $2 $18 $1 $18 $19
Gene Therapy $325 $250 $249 $221 $28 $248 $32 $248 $252
Gene Therapy Clinical Trials $31 $12 $16 $11 $0 $14 $0 $14 $14
Genetic Testing $395 $402 $383 $316 $76 $298 $121 $298 $304
Genetics $4,878 $7,000 $6,872 $7,278 $1,676 $7,473 $1,440 $7,470 $7,614
Global Warming Climate Change $56 $1 $1 $3 $1 $2 $2 $2 $2
Headaches - ** N/A N/A N/A $18 $1 $18 $18
Health Disparities 5/ $2,744 $2,744 $2,614 $2,806 $434 $2,728 $351 $2,726 $2,777
Health Effects of Climate Change $164 $258 $286 $179 $35 $188 $23 $188 $191
Health Services $1,023 $730 $743 $1,102 $316 $1,143 $334 $1,142 $1,185
Heart Disease $2,126 $1,126 $1,217 $1,202 $227 $1,329 $235 $1,328 $1,352
Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease $382 $379 $367 $426 $98 $457 $80 $457 $465
Hematology $1,128 $881 $894 $908 $151 $961 $141 $961 $978
Hepatitis $174 $176 $180 $178 $23 $204 $25 $204 $208
Hepatitis - A $2 $6 $6 $4 $0 $4 $0 $4 $4
Hepatitis - B $42 $53 $53 $51 $6 $66 $4 $66 $67
Hepatitis - C $108 $100 $93 $97 $12 $100 $12 $100 $102
HIV/AIDS 6/ 12/ $2,906 $2,906 $2,928 $3,019 $319 $3,085 $322 $3,086 $3,160
Hodgkin's Disease $17 $12 $16 $26 $1 $24 $1 $24 $25
Homelessness $18 $14 $13 $16 $3 $15 $3 $15 $16
Homicide and Legal Interventions $8 $1 * $2 $1 $1 $0 $1 $1
HPV and/or Cervical Cancer Vaccines $20 $16 $19 $25 $2 $25 $2 $25 $25
Human Fetal Tissue 7/ $19 ** $40 $41 $22 $55 $24 $55 $56
Human Genome $1,099 $1,246 $1,259 $1,775 $566 $1,904 $598 $1,903 $1,939
Huntington's Disease $53 $49 $51 $57 $12 $65 $7 $65 $66
Hyperbaric Oxygen $2 $3 $4 $3 $0 $2 $0 $2 $2
Hypertension $390 $231 $263 $266 $41 $251 $50 $251 $255
Immunization $1,342 $1,713 $1,734 $1,773 $191 $1,798 $231 $1,798 $1,835
Infant Mortality/ (LBW) $464 $227 $246 $246 $32 $273 $53 $273 $278
Infectious Diseases $3,059 $3,433 $3,575 $3,627 $526 $3,890 $568 $3,888 $3,968
Infertility $51 $65 $73 $75 $17 $76 $16 $75 $77
Inflammatory Bowel Disease $80 $74 $81 $91 $22 $106 $19 $106 $108
Influenza $271 $280 $204 $316 $46 $308 $88 $308 $315
Injury - Childhood Injuries $27 $28 $26 $33 $3 $36 $3 $36 $36
Injury - Trauma - (Head and Spine) $219 $164 $150 $161 $33 $179 $31 $178 $182
Injury - Traumatic brain injury $82 $73 $59 $71 $15 $85 $9 $85 $86
Injury - Unintentional Childhood Injury $21 $17 $15 $19 $1 $22 $1 $22 $22
Injury (total) Accidents/Adverse Effects $403 $299 $299 $340 $58 $372 $46 $372 $379
Interstitial Cystitis $23 $10 $10 $11 $1 $12 $1 $12 $12
Kidney Disease $450 $531 $523 $570 $85 $552 $98 $552 $561
Lead Poisoning $15 $13 $9 $11 $3 $11 $1 $11 $12
Liver Cancer $90 $103 $89 $94 $12 $102 $10 $102 $104
Liver Disease $423 $589 $562 $572 $79 $627 $85 $627 $639
Lung $1,013 $1,169 $1,211 $1,265 $234 $1,269 $207 $1,269 $1,292
Lung Cancer $249 $164 $169 $178 $36 $201 $22 $201 $205
Lupus $84 $113 $126 $115 $19 $112 $15 $112 $114
Lyme Disease $22 $26 $22 $25 $5 $24 $5 $24 $25
Lymphoma $158 $186 $193 $184 $22 $195 $14 $195 $199
Macular Degeneration $70 $135 $135 $85 $8 $104 $9 $104 $106
Malaria $104 $112 $132 $110 $11 $134 $14 $134 $136
Malaria Vaccine $36 $31 $32 $34 $3 $41 $4 $41 $42
Mental Health $1,853 $2,061 $2,086 $2,129 $382 $2,246 $334 $2,246 $2,287
Mental Retardation (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)) $204 $305 $350 $281 $94 $311 $87 $311 $317
Methamphetamine $45 $66 $67 $69 $13 $73 $14 $73 $74
Migraines - ** N/A N/A N/A $15 $0 $15 $15
Mind and Body $133 $571 $567 $494 $90 $549 $81 $548 $558
Minority Health 5/ $2,407 $2,407 $2,396 $2,592 $378 $2,526 $312 $2,525 $2,572
Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) $10 $8 $7 $7 $0 $8 $0 $8 $8
Multiple Sclerosis $98 $149 $169 $137 $25 $133 $18 $133 $135
Muscular Dystrophy $47 $58 $56 $66 $17 $74 $12 $74 $75
Myasthenia Gravis $6 $10 $9 $9 $3 $8 $3 $8 $8
Myotonic Dystrophy $8 $9 $9 $9 $4 $10 $2 $10 $10
Nanotechnology 8/ $215 $257 $304 $343 $73 $435 $76 $435 $443
Networking and Information Technology R&D 8/ $507 $959 $911 $1,174 $168 $647 $248 $646 $663
Neurodegenerative $1,166 $1,579 $1,621 $1,553 $262 $1,571 $243 $1,571 $1,599
Neurofibromatosis $13 $12 $14 $17 $2 $24 $1 $24 $24
Neuropathy $59 $118 $121 $119 $13 $121 $10 $121 $123
Neurosciences $4,809 $5,102 $5,224 $5,320 $848 $5,515 $794 $5,513 $5,612
Nutrition $1,075 $1,327 $1,391 $1,400 $205 $1,435 $208 $1,434 $1,460
Obesity $661 $595 $664 $745 $117 $824 $147 $823 $837
Organ Transplantation $358 $187 $175 $139 $32 $150 $37 $150 $153
Orphan Drug $1,158 $653 $645 $441 $118 $512 $89 $512 $522
Osteogenesis Imperfecta $5 $8 $5 $5 $1 $8 $4 $8 $8
Osteoporosis $164 $167 $183 $198 $21 $181 $23 $181 $184
Otitis Media $15 $20 $18 $15 $7 $19 $2 $19 $20
Ovarian Cancer $103 $89 $96 $102 $13 $122 $10 $122 $125
Paget's Disease $4 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $0 $1 $1
Pain Conditions - Chronic $224 $277 $279 $333 $53 $360 $44 $360 $366
Parkinson's Disease $187 $143 $152 $162 $24 $154 $18 $154 $157
Patient Safety - ** N/A N/A N/A $859 $263 $858 $875
Pediatric $3,173 $2,622 $2,771 $2,996 $505 $3,286 $479 $3,282 $3,341
Pediatric AIDS 6/ $262 $262 $241 $227 $20 $216 $15 $216 $220
Pediatric Research Initiative $171 ** $209 $214 $256 $308 $148 $307 $312
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease $3 $4 $3 $3 $1 $4 $1 $4 $4
Perinatal - Birth - Preterm (LBW) $351 $181 $197 $177 $23 $183 $47 $183 $186
Perinatal - Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome $9 $23 $18 $31 $5 $31 $3 $31 $32
Perinatal Period - Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period $387 $413 $449 $470 $65 $542 $84 $541 $551
Pick's Disease $1 $3 $2 $2 $0 $2 $0 $2 $2
Pneumonia $132 $105 $93 $108 $15 $93 $17 $93 $95
Pneumonia & Influenza $405 $382 $295 $392 $58 $396 $102 $396 $404
Polycystic Kidney Disease $36 $33 $41 $38 $7 $35 $6 $35 $36
Prescription Drug Abuse - ** N/A N/A N/A $29 $7 $29 $29
Prevention $6,729 $4,596 $4,623 $5,332 $844 $5,983 $849 $5,981 $6,113
Prostate Cancer $345 $295 $290 $310 $47 $331 $31 $331 $337
Psoriasis $10 $22 $8 $13 $3 $13 $3 $13 $13
Regenerative Medicine $575 $697 $723 $799 $144 $820 $142 $819 $834
Rehabilitation $344 $379 $403 $404 $75 $458 $93 $458 $466
Rett Syndrome $6 $6 $9 $9 $4 $13 $2 $13 $13
Reye's Syndrome $1 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 - -
Rural Health $208 $173 $170 $186 $42 $207 $33 $207 $211
Schizophrenia $358 $220 $249 $265 $85 $276 $63 $276 $282
Scleroderma $12 $12 $20 $21 $2 $19 $2 $19 $19
Screening And Brief Intervention For Substance Abuse - ** N/A N/A N/A $26 $4 $26 $27
Septicemia $49 $93 $95 $92 $19 $90 $17 $90 $92
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Herpes $288 $282 $245 $250 $43 $250 $38 $250 $255
Sickle Cell Disease $94 $78 $80 $63 $14 $73 $12 $73 $75
Sleep Research $190 $219 $225 $217 $33 $226 $22 $226 $230
Small Pox $122 $142 $94 $94 $4 $92 $5 $92 $94
Smoking and Health $534 $324 $310 $329 $78 $336 $55 $336 $342
Spina Bifida $9 $14 $15 $14 $3 $12 $6 $12 $12
Spinal Cord Injury $64 $90 $80 $80 $14 $87 $16 $87 $88
Spinal Muscular Atrophy $11 $11 $10 $11 $3 $16 $3 $16 $17
Stem Cell Research $657 $968 $938 $1,044 $187 $1,099 $187 $1,098 $1,118
Stem Cell Research - Embryonic - Human $42 $74 $88 $120 $23 $126 $40 $125 $128
Stem Cell Research - Embryonic - Non-Human $106 $120 $150 $148 $29 $175 $20 $175 $178
Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Human $203 $226 $297 $339 $58 $341 $74 $341 $347
Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Non-Human $306 $400 $497 $550 $88 $570 $74 $569 $580
Stem Cell Research - Umbilical Cord Blood/ Placenta $22 $44 $46 $49 $10 $42 $8 $42 $42
Stem Cell Research - Umbilical Cord Blood/ Placenta - Human $19 $38 $38 $42 $9 $40 $7 $40 $40
Stem Cell Research - Umbilical Cord Blood/ Placenta - Non-Human $2 $9 $9 $10 $1 $5 $1 $5 $5
Stroke $340 $288 $296 $329 $54 $337 $54 $337 $343
Substance Abuse 9/ $1,523 $1,636 $1,763 $1,653 $245 $1,674 $216 $1,666 $1,697
Substance Abuse Prevention - ** N/A N/A N/A $43 $10 $43 $44
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome $81 $25 $29 $22 $6 $25 $2 $25 $26
Suicide $43 $52 $39 $36 $15 $36 $4 $36 $37
Suicide Prevention - **