Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research in Massachusetts

A dense research catalog in one state

CFDA 93.855 (ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH) plus Massachusetts place of performance produces $3,630,443,219.90 on 1,189 awards. The national program table is unfiltered by state. The Massachusetts spending table is unfiltered by CFDA. The overlap is this tie.

One thousand one hundred eighty-nine awards is a many-instrument research pattern: lots of records, each smaller on average than a three-award Treasury relief cell. The join does not rank Boston hospitals against Worcester campuses. It reports one catalog and one geography tag.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,630,443,219.90 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 93.855 and MA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Massachusetts against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Boston and Cambridge research brands are not columns in this file. 1189 awards and $3,630,443,219.90 describe CFDA 93.855 tagged MA. The about $3.05 million mean is lower than a handful-of-awards formula cell because the instrument count is in the thousands. Density of records is not a ranking of scientific quality.

Keeping 93.855 separate from other HHS research

Other HHS research catalogs—cancer, aging, cardiovascular—use different CFDA numbers and live on other Massachusetts program pages. Adding those catalogs to $3,630,443,219.90 would invent an “all NIH in Massachusetts” figure the facts do not contain.

Available facts: MA, CFDA 93.855, $3,630,443,219.90, 1,189 awards. Fiscal-year splits, R01 versus contract mixes, and principal-investigator names are absent. The title is the catalog name, not a claim about disease prevalence in the state.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,630,443,219.90, 1189 awards, CFDA 93.855, program title Allergy And Infectious Diseases Research, and geography MA/Massachusetts. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 1189 awards into $3,630,443,219.90 is about $3.05 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Massachusetts research spending in casual conversation mixes NIH institutes, hospitals, and universities. This file mixes none of that. It keeps CFDA 93.855, MA, $3,630,443,219.90, and 1189. Other research CFDAs need their own ties.

Questions

How much CFDA 93.855 funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $3,630,443,219.90 in Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research obligations with Massachusetts place of performance across 1,189 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not the national program total.

Does this include aging and heart research in Massachusetts?

No. Those catalogs use other CFDA numbers and sit on separate Massachusetts program pages. This page is 93.855 only. The $3,630,443,219.90 total does not absorb those other cells.

Why is the average about $3.05 million?

Massachusetts has 1,189 awards against $3,630,443,219.90, or about $3.05 million each. A large instrument count pulls the mean below catalogs that post a few statewide awards. The mean is not a median and not a quality ranking.

Are these outlays?

No. The $3,630,443,219.90 figure is obligations from USAspending.gov. Obligations are commitments, not cash out the door.