Federal grants to Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee received $2.2 billion in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 1,186 awards. Its largest program was Cardiovascular Diseases Research, with $290 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $413 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$2.2 billion
- Awards1,186
- Awarded in FY 2025$413 million
- Largest award$141 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 583 | $383 million |
| FY 2022 | 611 | $458 million |
| FY 2023 | 652 | $441 million |
| FY 2024 | 637 | $481 million |
| FY 2025 | 576 | $413 million |
Programs that fund Vanderbilt University Medical Center
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Cardiovascular Diseases Research | 182 | $290 million |
| Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | 130 | $281 million |
| Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research | 133 | $200 million |
| Aging Research | 77 | $172 million |
| Global AIDS | 2 | $151 million |
| Trans-NIH Research Support | 38 | $114 million |
| National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | 10 | $94.6 million |
| Cancer Cause and Prevention Research | 31 | $74.0 million |
| Cancer Centers Support Grants | 6 | $71.9 million |
| Military Medical Research and Development | 52 | $70.8 million |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Health and Human Services | 1,108 | $2.1 billion |
| Department of Defense | 54 | $78.0 million |
| Department of Education | 9 | $6.1 million |
| Department of the Interior | 1 | $4.0 million |
| National Science Foundation | 11 | $2.1 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avante | Global AIDS | August 31, 2021 | $141 million |
| Data and research support center | Trans-NIH Research Support | January 18, 2021 | $52.2 million |
| Vanderbilt institute for clinical and translational research (VICTR) | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | November 4, 2020 | $51.6 million |
| Cancer center support grant | Cancer Centers Support Grants | March 25, 2021 | $39.0 million |
| Bunyavirus and picornavirus pandemic pathogen preparedness (BP4) center - project summary pathogenic picornaviruses and bunyaviruses have an enormous impact on public health worldwide, and our understanding of mechanistic correlates of immunity for members of these virus families is limited. Because | Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | August 20, 2024 | $38.1 million |
| Alzheimer's disease sequencing project phenotype harmonization consortium - abstract in response to PAR-20-099 “harmonization of alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ad/rd) genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical data to enhance therapeutic target discovery”, we have assembled a multidisciplinary | Aging Research | September 21, 2021 | $37.5 million |
| Vanderbilt vaccine and treatment evaluation unit | Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | November 18, 2020 | $28.3 million |
| Echo laboratory core at vanderbilt for integrated sample biobanking and processing - summary early-life environmental exposures (e.g., social-environmental, parental risk factors, nicotine, diet, infection) are increasingly implicated in the early pathogenesis of childhood diseases that have life-lo | Trans-NIH Research Support | August 25, 2023 | $24.9 million |
| Southeast collaborative for innovative and equitable solutions to chronic disease disparities - the burden of racial and ethnic health disparities is most evident in the southeastern united states, where black and latino populations suffer the highest rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesi | Minority Health and Health Disparities Research | September 24, 2021 | $15.5 million |
| Catalyzing and harmonizing operational innovation for recruitment (CHOIR) - while recruitment into clinical research has been a longstanding challenge for NIH funded multi-site studies, it has become clear that there is substantial variability in recruitment success across the national portfolio cau | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | July 14, 2023 | $15.4 million |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Vanderbilt University Medical Center get?
$2.2 billion in 1,186 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Vanderbilt University Medical Center the most?
The Department of Health and Human Services, with $2.1 billion in 1,108 awards. The Department of Defense and the Department of Education follow.
What is Vanderbilt University Medical Center's largest federal grant?
$141 million under Global AIDS, with its first action in the period on August 31, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Vanderbilt University Medical Center?
Its largest are Cardiovascular Diseases Research, Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research and Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research.
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