NIH RePORTER Grants Normalizer 🏥

Search the NIH RePORTER database for research grants and get cleaned, normalized, analysis-ready data. No more messy institution names — Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Boston Children's Hospital are all correctly identified and mapped.

What it does

• 🔍 Search by organization name(s) or Principal Investigator name
• 🧹 Normalize institution names (200+ mappings covering all major NIH-funded institutions)
• 👤 Standardize PI names to consistent "Last, First" format
• 🏷️ Classify organizations by type (Academic, Hospital, Research Institute, Government, Industry)
• 📊 Output human-readable summary + machine-readable stats + full dataset
• 🗑️ Deduplicate projects by project number

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
orgNames	string[]	Organization name(s) to search (e.g. "Harvard University")	["Harvard University"]
piNames	string[]	PI names to search (e.g. "Collins, Francis")	[]
fiscalYears	integer[]	Fiscal years to filter (e.g. 2024, 2025)	[2024, 2025]
maxResults	integer	Max grants to return (1–500)	100
includeAbstracts	boolean	Include project abstracts in output	false

Example input

{
  "orgNames": ["Stanford University", "UCSF"],
  "fiscalYears": [2024, 2025],
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example output

================================================================================
  NIH RePORTER GRANTS — NORMALIZED RESULTS
================================================================================
  Total grants:     47
  Duplicates:       3
  Total funding:    $28,450,000

    #  Grant Title                               Org                       PI                   FY    Cost
  ───  ─────────────────────────────────────     ─────────────────────     ──────────────────  ────  ──────────
    0  Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in..    Stanford University       Sudhof, Thomas      2025  $2,100,000
    1  Neural circuits underlying decision..     Stanford University       Deisseroth, Karl    2025  $1,850,000
    2  Immunotherapy resistance in gliobla..     UCSF                      Lim, Wendell        2024  $3,200,000
  ...

Output schema

Property	Location	Description
results	Dataset items	Full normalized grant records
summary	KVS OUTPUT	Human-readable summary table
stats	KVS STATS	Machine-readable statistics
data	KVS RESULTS	Full results array for API consumers

Use cases

• Pharma competitive intelligence: Track competitor research partnerships and funding
• Biotech investment research: Identify hot research areas and top-funded institutions
• University research offices: Benchmark against peer institutions
• Grant writers: Analyze funding patterns by agency, mechanism, and fiscal year
• Academic researchers: Find collaborators and track emerging research trends

Data source

Data from the NIH RePORTER API — a free, public API providing access to NIH-funded research projects. No API key required. Contains 500,000+ projects across all NIH institutes.

Pricing

This is a value-add actor with institution name normalization, PI name standardization, org type classification, and deduplication. See store listing for current pricing.