Who funds air pollution research?

We count 83 funded air pollution projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (18 projects), Wellcome (16 projects) and EU · Health (8 projects). The median award is $2.4M, across the 78 of 83 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

83

Funders

5

Median award

$2.4M

Open calls now

1

Top funders of air pollution research

Projects whose title or summary mentions air pollution. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open air pollution funding calls

1 open call mentions air pollution today.

• Improve the capacity to monitor and reduce air pollution from agriculture
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €6,000,000Deadline: September 22, 2027 ·

Funded air pollution projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Mechanistically Informed Modeling of 3D Urban Morphology and Real-Time Exposure to PM2.5
  NSF · ENG · $585,497 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Transport of air pollutants between mid-latitudes and the polar regions: an 800-year perspective from a Russian Arctic ice-core record.
  NSF · Office of the Director · $780,358 · ends 2030
• Using novel data linkages to quantify the health impact of non-fossil fuel air pollution
  Wellcome · £1,183,946 · ends 2030
• From Data to Action: Identifying Harms and Critical Windows of Combined Environmental Exposures to Air Pollutants and Heat Using Integrated Epidemiological and Toxicological Evidence
  Wellcome · £2,548,461 · ends 2030
• Unraveling Biological Pathways and Health Impacts of Air Pollution Components to Inform Climate Mitigation
  Wellcome · £3,092,457 · ends 2030
• Determination of Tropical Oxidising Capacity through model calibration (DeTOX)
  UKRI · NERC · £1,988,503 · ends 2029
• Discovery of Gene-by-Air Pollution Interactions in Respiratory Disease using Genetically Diverse Mice with Validation in Humans
  NIH · NIEHS · $3,082,011 · ends 2029
• Adverse Health Outcomes From Extreme Heat, Air Pollution, and Medications in Low-Income Pregnant Women and Their Offspring
  NIH · NICHD · $3,140,397 · ends 2029
• Environmental Exposures and Brain Health
  NIH · NIA · $5,164,012 · ends 2029
• Nitrogen Oxide Isotopes for Soil Emissions (NOISE)
  UKRI · NERC · £803,177 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “air pollution”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.