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Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X

Turns NIH's free grant database into a ranked lead list: which labs, PIs, and institutions are funded to work on your topic, with award size and funding freshness. Built for lab-equipment sales, CRO business development, and academic recruiting — the list vendors currently build by hand.

Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X returns 20 documented output fields, including matchedTopic, projectNumber, title, piName and coInvestigators. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 21 runs are recorded on Apify.

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20
Output fields
6
Inputs
21
Runs
2026-10-15
Last run

01 — output

What it returns

Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.

FieldTypeWhat it holdsExample
matchedTopicstringnullTopic that matched.<matchedTopic>
projectNumberstringnullIdentifier of the project.<projectNumber>
titlestringnullTitle as the source writes it.Wireless Bluetooth Headphones
piNamestringnullPi Name as recorded for this row.<piName>
coInvestigatorsstringnullCo Investigators as recorded for this row.<coInvestigators>
institutionstringnullName of the institution.<institution>
institutionCitystringnullCity of the institution.<institutionCity>
institutionStatestringnullState of the institution.<institutionState>
fundingAgencystringnullAgency providing the funding.<fundingAgency>
awardAmountnumbernullMonetary value of the award.0
fundingTierstringnullFunding tier, where a programme publishes bands.<fundingTier>
fundingFreshnessstringnullHow recent the funding information is.<fundingFreshness>
fiscalYearintegernullFiscal year the figure belongs to.0
isActivebooleannullWhether the record is still active at the source.true
projectStartstringnullStart date of the funded project.<projectStart>
projectEndstringnullEnd date of the funded project.<projectEnd>
abstractExcerptstringnullOpening excerpt of the abstract, for previewing a document.<abstractExcerpt>
reporterUrlstringnullReporter Url as recorded for this row.<reporterUrl>
statusstringnullOutcome recorded for this row.ok
verdictstringnullThe Actor's conclusion for this row, stated in words.pass

02 — sample

One record

Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.

{
  "matchedTopic": "<matchedTopic>",
  "projectNumber": "<projectNumber>",
  "title": "Wireless Bluetooth Headphones",
  "piName": "<piName>",
  "coInvestigators": "<coInvestigators>",
  "institution": "<institution>",
  "institutionCity": "<institutionCity>",
  "institutionState": "<institutionState>"
}

03 — input

What you give it

InputTypeDescription
topicsarrayoptionalTopics to search for in NIH grant titles, terms, and abstracts, e.g. mass spectrometry, CRISPR screening. Each topic is a separate search.
fiscalYearsstringoptionalSpace or comma separated NIH fiscal years to search, e.g. 2024, 2025. Leave empty for all years.
activeOnlybooleanoptionalOnly return grants that are currently active (have runway left, an unspent budget). Turn off to also include closed-out historical grants.
minAwardAmountintegeroptionalDiscard grants funded below this amount. Leave empty for no minimum.
maxResultsPerTopicintegeroptionalHow many NIH RePORTER results to pull per topic search.
maxItemsintegeroptionalHard cap on items returned across all topics. You are never charged beyond this.

04 — run

Run Funded-Lab Sales Radar on your own input

It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.

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05 — questions

Asked before running it

20 of 20 fields described

What does Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X return?
It returns 20 documented output fields: matchedTopic, projectNumber, title, piName, coInvestigators, institution, institutionCity, institutionState, fundingAgency, awardAmount, fundingTier and fundingFreshness. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value. The remaining 8 are listed in the output schema below.
What input does Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X take?
All 6 inputs are optional and ship with usable defaults, so it runs as-is. They are listed with their types below.
Does Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X need an API key or login?
No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
How do I run Funded-Lab Sales Radar — Who's Funded to Work on X?
It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.