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. 2021 Nov 18;16:483. doi: 10.1186/s13023-021-02120-9

Table 4.

Funding landscape in rare diseases by disease categories

Disease_Category NumOfGARD NumOfProjects Total_Funding_Amount
Disease by anatomical system 982 34,373 7,470,493,496
Infectious disease 126 10,652 4,341,498,887
Disease by subcellular system affected 345 14,229 3,769,154,077
Disorder by anatomical region 475 15,261 2,934,525,892
Mendelian disease 504 15,244 2,892,410,817
Cell proliferation disorder 184 7964 1,619,194,341
Syndromic disease 269 5992 1,343,766,913
Inflammatory disease 101 2338 1,270,068,376
Acute disease 24 936 1,084,754,417
Disorder of development or morphogenesis 297 6053 1,050,936,925
Nutritional or metabolic disease 206 4896 930,754,532
Connective tissue disease 193 5684 913,060,844
Congenital abnormality 222 4391 847,471,304
Psychiatric disorder 101 2212 478,514,676
Systemic or rheumatic disease 67 1206 189,906,616
Post-infectious disorder 21 683 129,643,447
Pregnancy disorder 8 43 4,484,043
Disorder involving pain 2 23 4,140,753
Radiation or chemically induced disorder 6 72 3,140,791