Top funders neglected disease R&D by organization 2021

This statistic shows the amount funded by the top organizational funders for research and development on neglected diseases worldwide in 2021. In that year, the United States Department of Defense was responsible for some 131 million U.S. dollars in funding for R&D on neglected diseases.

Leading organizations in funding for research and development on neglected diseases in 2021 (in million U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Funding in million U.S. dollars
U.S. National Institutes of Health	1,761
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	665
Aggregate industry	608
European Commission	202
U.S. Department of Defense	131
Wellcome Trust	128
Unitaid	75
U.S. Agency for International Development	54
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)	52
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	45
UK Medical Research Council	31
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council	26

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Release date

January 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Neglected Diseases are mostly tropical infectious diseases that receive less attention behind the big diseases (usually: HIV, malaria, tuberculosis) and are therefore labeled 'neglected'.

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