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  • Federal Funding Analysis
  • Grantmaking Trends

Background:

  • Federal funding is critical for medical physics innovation and patient care.
  • Understanding funding shifts is essential for the research community's stability.
  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a primary source of research grants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify changes in NIH funding for medical physics researchers between FY24 and FY25.
  • To analyze the composition of NIH funding shifts.
  • To assess the impact of these changes on the medical physics research pipeline.

Main Methods:

  • Linking the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) membership database with NIH RePORTER records.
  • Quantifying the distribution of NIH funding for projects led by AAPM researchers.
  • Analyzing trends in competing and noncompeting grant awards.

Main Results:

  • Total NIH funding to AAPM members remained stable year-over-year.
  • Competing awards declined by 50%, with new R01 grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collapsing by 80%.
  • Noncompeting continuation awards increased by 10% due to changes in NIH multi-year project funding.

Conclusions:

  • Substantial shifts in NIH funding composition occurred between FY24 and FY25.
  • Disruptions in NIH review and grantmaking processes coincided with these funding changes.
  • The observed trends raise concerns about the long-term stability and vitality of medical physics research funding.