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Medical Research and Clinical Trials

01 Medical Research and Clinical Trials · 395 edit slice
107
orgs
522
activities
25
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 107 organizations and 522 activities — PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION, PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK, THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES, LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (70%) and California (30%). The field's most common shared approach is "Biological Pathways to Prevention", run by 1 orgs.
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION and PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 70% · 75 orgs
California 30% · 32 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 107

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

NIH 3
Government
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 3
Government
AmazonSmile 2
Corporate
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 2
Government
Medi-Cal 2
Government
National Cancer Institute (NCI) 2
Government
National Institutes of Health 2
Government
145,000 donors 1
Individuals
340B Program 1
Government
ARPA-H 1
Government
ARPA-H PROSPR Program 1
Government
Abbott Nutrition 1
Corporate
Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention (AWHP) 1
Foundation
American Red Cross 1
Corporate
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Biological Pathways to Prevention
13
Conservative Management Advocacy
4
3
Cross-Species Aging Research
2
2
Cryopreservation Bridge
3
Data-Driven Workforce Advocacy
1
Diagnostic Precision First
11
2
Entrepreneurial Research Operations
1
Expert-Guided Research Prioritization
2
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

University of Arizona Partner
shared by 8 orgs
FDA Government
shared by 6 orgs
Mayo Clinic Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Barrow Neurological Institute Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Charity Navigator Government
shared by 5 orgs
Phoenix Children’s Hospital Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Stanford University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Banner Health Partner
shared by 4 orgs
National Institutes of Health Government
shared by 4 orgs
University of Minnesota Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Banner Sun Health Research Institute Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Hope Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Food and Drug Administration Government
shared by 3 orgs
National Cancer Institute Government
shared by 3 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

3.6B
funding raised
from 3 orgs
18.3M
amount awarded
from 2 orgs
45K
Staff
from 30 orgs
1K
Volunteers
from 2 orgs