Introduction
The US National Institute of Health (NIH) received funding of approximately $42 billion in fiscal year 2022; $31 billion (72%) of this was awarded by the NIH in the form of research grant funding to hospitals, medical colleges, non-profits, businesses, and other organizations based in the U.S. and abroad.[https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2021/04/21/fy-2020-by-the-numbers-extramural-investments-in-research] The NIH maintains a publicly available database called “RePORTER” to track this substantial flow of grant funding and makes it available to the public via a web-based query interface as well as an API.