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American University: 16 NIH awards ($9.7M) and 25 NSF awards ($14.7M), fiscal years 2021 to 2026
American University in Washington, DC is funded under 16 NIH awards ($9.7M) and 25 NSF awards ($14.7M) in the NIH and NSF award files, read 2026-11-03. NIH fiscal years 2021 to 2025; NSF fiscal years 2022 to 2026.
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Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ART: American University Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC) | NSF | Workforce and Capacity Building Section | 2023 | $6,020,483 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Susanna Campbell | nsf.gov |
| Testing the Efficacy of Safe South Africa: An Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk and Interpersonal Violence Among Adolescent Boys | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health | 2023 to 2025 | $1,801,635 | July 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | KUO, CAROLINE CHIA | reporter.nih.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating Curiosity-Driven Visual Processing during Science Learning | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2023 | $1,387,686 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Emily G Peterson | nsf.gov |
| Opioid and Psychostimulant Taking: Testing the Impact of Behavioral Economic Contexts | NIH | National Institute on Drug Abuse | 2022 to 2025 | $1,280,955 | September 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | KEARNS, DAVID N | reporter.nih.gov |
| Examining Blackness in Postsecondary STEM Education through a Multidimensional-Multiplicative Lens | NSF | Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) | 2022 | $1,056,052 | September 1, 2022 | April 25, 2025 | Shari E Watkins | nsf.gov |
| ADVANCE Adaptation: American University Creating Gender and Racial Equity Among STEM Faculty | NSF | Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM | 2022 | $1,000,000 | September 1, 2022 | April 25, 2025 | Monica Jackson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Advanced AI Framework to Improve Understanding and Prediction of Wildland Fire | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $867,245 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Leah L Ding | nsf.gov |
| Acquisition of an Oxford Nanopore sequencer for genomic analysis of a subterrestrial nematode | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2022 to 2023 | $834,742 | June 7, 2022 | May 31, 2025 | BRACHT, JOHN RUSSELL | reporter.nih.gov |
| Addressing the Impacts of Structural Racism on Race Inequities in Health: A Focus on Mass Incarceration, Housing, and their Intersection | NIH | National Institute of Nursing Research | 2024 | $726,639 | August 15, 2024 | May 31, 2025 | BLANKENSHIP, KIM M. | reporter.nih.gov |
| New Evidence on the Role of Federal Funding in Reducing the Prevalence of Obesity | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | 2024 to 2025 | $642,343 | September 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | CHURCHILL, BRANDYN F | reporter.nih.gov |
| Evaluating the Camino intervention to reduce HIV risk and poor care outcomes among Latin Americans | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health | 2025 | $608,698 | September 17, 2025 | September 16, 2028 | YAMANIS, THESPINA JEANNE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Grounding computational models of vision with infant brain data | NSF | Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences | 2022 | $577,409 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Laurie Bayet | nsf.gov |
| Reducing Maternal Stress to Improve Obesity-related Parenting Practices | NIH | National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health | 2021 to 2024 | $571,903 | August 1, 2020 | July 31, 2025 | COTTER, ELIZABETH | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The causes and consequences of adaptive radiation in animal communication, from individuals to communities | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $557,547 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | E Dale Broder | nsf.gov |
| BRC-BIO:The symbionts' symbionts: Dissecting the microbiome of the coral endosymbiont (Symbiodiniaceae) | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2025 | $495,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Anny J Cardenas | nsf.gov |
| Cortical actions of opioids on reward-guided decision making | NIH | National Institute on Drug Abuse | 2025 | $476,496 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | LAUBACH, MARK | reporter.nih.gov |
| Cerebellum and autism: Regional specialization for social and executive functions | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health | 2022 | $445,165 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | GUNTHERT, KATHLEEN C | reporter.nih.gov |
| Virtual screening for the identification of ligands of GPR101, an orphan GPCR involved in X-linked acrogigantism (X-LAG) | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2021 | $429,000 | September 1, 2021 | December 31, 2024 | COSTANZI, STEFANO | reporter.nih.gov |
| Learning diagnostic latent representations for human material perception: common mechanisms and individual variability | NIH | National Eye Institute | 2023 | $420,538 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | XIAO, BEI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Effects of age and lesion location on motor, behavioral and cognitive outcomes in pediatric posterior fossa tumors | NIH | National Cancer Institute | 2022 | $396,041 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | MALLOY, ELIZABETH JANE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Intergenerational Intervention: Employing Youth to Promote Aging Healthy with HIV in Rural South Africa | NIH | National Institute on Aging | 2023 to 2024 | $367,138 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2026 | ANGOTTI, NICOLE C | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Transformative studies of cometary volatiles in the era of modern near-infrared spectrographs | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $330,562 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Boncho Bonev | nsf.gov |
| Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) to strengthen interdisciplinary environmental research at American University | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2026 | $311,425 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Chelsea Koch | nsf.gov |
| Collaboration Research: Implications of International Agreements for Laws and Practices in Nation-States | NSF | Division of Social and Economic Sciences | 2025 | $303,440 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Todd A Eisenstadt | nsf.gov |
| Role of canonical and non-canonical beta-catenin signaling in HIV-1 latency | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | 2022 | $289,015 | August 23, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | IZUMI, TAISUKE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SHINE: Where Are Particles Accelerated in Coronal Jets? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $265,312 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Pankaj Kumar | nsf.gov |
| Monitoring Long-term Change in Land Usage Patterns Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Technologies | NSF | Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences | 2025 | $246,755 | October 1, 2025 | March 31, 2028 | Scott Freeman | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Perinatal Mental Health: A Feasibility Study of an Integrated Social Work and Community Health Approach | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2024 to 2025 | $245,592 | September 21, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | PETRUZZI, LIANA J | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ER2: The development of research ethics governance projects in computer science | NSF | SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities | 2024 | $225,929 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Megan Finn | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAR-Climate: Hydraulic and Hydrologic Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Forest Soils and Trees and Detection With Radon As a Novel Tracer | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $215,147 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Karen L Knee | nsf.gov |
| eMB: Collaborative Research: Advancing Inference of Phylogenetic Trees and Networks under Multispecies Coalescent with Hybridization and Gene Flow | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2023 | $196,861 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Julia Chifman | nsf.gov |
| Minority Stress Reactivity and Hazardous Drinking | NIH | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | 2021 | $169,287 | August 1, 2017 | September 30, 2022 | MEREISH, ETHAN H. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Development and Characterization of AlGaAs Coatings for Gravitational-wave Detectors | NSF | Physics Section | 2024 | $139,844 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2026 | Gregory M Harry | nsf.gov |
| REU Sites: Summer Program Advancing Techniques in the Applied Learning of Statistics (SPATIAL-Stats) | NSF | Division Of Mathematical Sciences | 2022 | $114,164 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2023 | Monica Jackson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research | NSF | Division Of Physics | 2023 | $79,406 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Gregory M Harry | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Composition of our Solar System's Most Primitive Materials - Comprehensive Chemical Analysis of a Halley-Type Comet | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $75,645 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Nathan X Roth | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IGE: Track 2: SciComm LIFT: Leveraging Institutional capacity for eFfective graduate student Training | NSF | Scholarships, Fellowships, and Traineeships Section | 2024 | $73,362 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | E Dale Broder | nsf.gov |
| RAPID: Red lines and Negotiables: How Exposure to Wartime Violence Influences Support for Peace Settlements | NSF | Division of Social and Economic Sciences | 2022 | $31,434 | June 15, 2022 | May 31, 2023 | Thomas Zeitzoff | nsf.gov |
| Conference: The 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2026 | $30,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2027 | Michael I Baron | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research Data Afterlives: The long-term impact of NSF Data Management Plans on data archiving and sharing for increased access | NSF | Division of Social and Economic Sciences | 2024 | $29,989 | February 15, 2024 | July 31, 2025 | Megan Finn | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research | NSF | Physics Section | 2026 | $27,814 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2028 | Gregory M Harry | nsf.gov |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 3 | $369,239 |
| 2025 | 6 | $2,379,291 | 8 | $3,777,720 |
| 2024 | 7 | $2,414,452 | 5 | $1,301,281 |
| 2023 | 6 | $2,150,534 | 4 | $5,970,117 |
| 2022 | 6 | $2,018,933 | 8 | $3,210,165 |
| 2021 | 3 | $741,977 | 0 | $0 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geometric Analysis | PD-22-1265 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Topology | PD-22-1267 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.049 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants | 22-624 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Applied Mathematics | PD-16-1266 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Plasma Physics | PD-23-1242 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.049 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Computational Mathematics | PD-16-1271 | NSF | 47.049 | December 1, 2026 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Statistics | PD-18-1269 | NSF | 47.049 | December 15, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.049 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC) | 25-515 | NSF | 47.049 | January 25, 2027 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.049 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD-20-1260 | NSF | 47.049 | February 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.049 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.049 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.049 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.049 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.049 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 8 awards here |
Topics of its NIH awards
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Social Determinants of Health
- Clinical Research
- Mental Health
- Pediatric
- Prevention
- Basic Behavioral and Social Science
- Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities
- Health Disparities and Racial or Ethnic Minority Health Research
- Racial and Ethnic Minority Health Research
- Neurosciences
- Health Disparities Research
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.