Who funds anxiety research?

We count 124 funded anxiety projects, active between 2021 and 2034, from 5 funders. The most came from Wellcome (63 projects), EU · ERC (20 projects) and EU · MSCA (13 projects). The median award is $2.4M, across the 117 of 124 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

124

Funders

5

Median award

$2.4M

Open calls now

2

Top funders of anxiety research

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

Open anxiety funding calls

2 open calls mention anxiety today.

• Mood and Psychosis Symptoms during the Menopause Transition (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
  National Institutes of HealthNot specifiedDeadline: January 7, 2028 ·
  Real odds: About 1 in 8 funded (13% · NIH R01-equivalent grants, all NIH institutes, FY2025)
• Mood and Psychosis Symptoms during the Menopause Transition (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
  National Institutes of HealthNot specifiedDeadline: January 7, 2028 ·
  Real odds: About 1 in 9 funded (11% · NIH R21 (exploratory/developmental), all NIH institutes, FY2025)

Real odds

• About 1 in 8 funded · 13% · NIH R01-equivalent grants, all NIH institutes, FY2025 · NIH Data Book, report 29
• About 1 in 9 funded · 11% · NIH R21 (exploratory/developmental), all NIH institutes, FY2025 · NIH Data Book, report 202

Published success rates for the programs behind the open calls above: the share of applications the funder funded, program-wide, not for this topic.

Funded anxiety projects

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

• Reimagining Prevention Science: LGBTQ+ Collective Action to Prevent Depression and Anxiety in Urban Vietnam
  Wellcome · £2,609,727 · ends 2034
• ASCEND-HD: Advancing Support and Care for Emotional Needs and Distress in Huntington's Disease
  Wellcome · £1,960,148 · ends 2033
• ANXIOMICS: Finding the mind, brain and immune pathways to anxiety
  Wellcome · £4,250,953 · ends 2032
• CAREER: From sensing to action: Enabling robot speech, gestures, and touch to provide supportive responses for human emotional distress
  NSF · CISE · $699,961 · ends 2031
• Advancing methods for pharmacological fMRI to improve discovery and development of treatments for mental health
  UKRI · MRC · £1,963,070 · ends 2031
• Unravelling the Immune Mechanisms of Oral Tolerance to Find a Cure for Food Allergy
  UKRI · MRC · £2,542,244 · ends 2030
• Developing and Validating a Multi-Omic, Psychosocial, and Environmental Model of Individual Differences in Pain and Placebo Responses
  NIH · NCCIH · $4,929,839 · ends 2030
• Structural Gendered Racism-Related Policies and Mental Health among Cisgender Women at Intersecting Axes of Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity: An Intersectional Mixed Methods Study
  NIH · NINR · $3,277,196 · ends 2030
• Mount Sinai ECHO site for Perinatal Environment and Development Studies
  NIH · Office of the Director · $5,651,458 · ends 2030
• Collaborative Research: A Wellbeing Intervention for Improving Statistics Learning
  NSF · EDU · $274,271 · 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 “anxiety”. 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.