Fitness Research Funding: NIH Grants

• 67NIH projects (fiscal year 2025)
• $33.5 millionawarded (fiscal year 2025)

Each number has its full source under its own list below.

1. 1Transmission Dynamics And Fitness Of Reemerging St. Louis Encephalitis Virus In Mosquito Vectors And West Nile Virus Naïve And Immune…University Of California At Davis · fiscal year 2025$3.2 million
2. 2Learn From The Errors At The Start Of Life: Dissect Cellular Fitness Through Dynamics Of Chromosomal Instability In EmbryogenesisUniversity Of Washington · fiscal year 2025$1.6 million
3. 3Defining The Impact Of Drug Use On Immune Function And Fitness Against Hiv-1Massachusetts General Hospital · fiscal year 2025$1.2 million
4. 4Heterozygous Serpine1 Deficiency Confers Durable Cardiovascular Fitness In HumansNorthwestern University · fiscal year 2025$1.1 million
5. 5Precision Medicine In Alzheimer’s Disease: A Smart Trial Of Adaptive Exercises And Their Mechanisms Of Action Using At(n) Biomarkers To…Arizona State University-tempe Campus · fiscal year 2025$899,575
6. 6Caloric Restriction, Environment, And Fitness: Reproductive Effects Evaluation Study (carefree Study)National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences · fiscal year 2025$831,801
7. 7Leveraging Adaptive Evolution And High-throughput Techniques To Dissect The Link Between Biochemical Function And FitnessUniversity Of California Berkeley · fiscal year 2025$802,500
8. 8Psychosocial Stress, Cardio-respiratory Fitness, And The Medial Temporal Hippocampal System In Black Emerging AdultsBoston University Medical Campus · fiscal year 2025$801,776
9. 9Rehabbing With Peloton: Commercially Available Fitness Mhealth For Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Individuals Recovering From Transcatheter…University Of Colorado Denver · fiscal year 2025$783,490
10. 10Sleep And Aerobic Fitness As Midlife Modifiers Of Later Life Cognitive Decline And Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers In The Wisconsin Sleep…University Of Wisconsin-madison · fiscal year 2025$756,633

Source: NIH RePORTER, NIH-funded projects and award amounts, fiscal year 2025. Retrieved 12 Nov 2026.

• Not active enough (adults)
• No exercise in free time

• Nutrition
• Remote monitoring and wearables
• Obesity
• Diagnostics and lab testing
• Diabetes
• Sleep
• Bones and joints