Arkansas Biosciences Institute: 24 years of research funding in one public report
We built the Arkansas Biosciences Institute's interactive impact report. It brings 24 years of ABI funding, FY2002–FY2025, together with ABI's research projects, investigators, publications, and clinical trials in one source-documented public site, which ABI presents on its own website.
- Client
- Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI)
- Coverage
- Funding FY2002–FY2025, five partner institutions
- Published
- September 2026
- Our role
- Compiled and checked the data, matched it to public sources, and designed and built the report
- Where it lives
- blackberrybriar.com/impact-reports/abi/, embedded on arbiosciences.org/impact-report/
The challenge
Arkansas voters created the Arkansas Biosciences Institute through the Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, Initiated Act 1 of 2000. ABI supports research at five partner institutions: Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Arkansas State University, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
ABI's funding record spans 24 fiscal years, with detailed project records for 15 of them. The report gives board members, lawmakers, and the public one place to examine that record, with the source of each figure documented.
What the report covers
Funding record
ABI's appropriation and the leveraged extramural funding reported by its partner institutions for each of the 24 fiscal years, FY2002–FY2025.
Project portfolio
Detailed records for 15 of those years: 2,754 project-years, most naming an investigator and institution, searchable and linked to likely federal award records where available.
Investigators
A register of 337 researchers identified from ABI's FY2021–FY2025 records, with funding and publication records.
Institutions
Funding and reported activity at each of ABI's five partner institutions.
Outputs
FY2025 activity reported by partner institutions, plus NIH-linked publications and registered clinical studies.
Context
ABI investigators and partner institutions compared with statewide totals.
How the figures were assembled
- ABI's internal records supply the funding, project, and activity data. Public registries supply award links, researcher identities, publications, citations, and clinical-trial records. Totals and ratios are calculated directly from those sources; the report does not model ABI's impact.
- Investigators are matched to profiles in the statewide AR Research Hub directory, an Arkansas Research Alliance activity, and to OpenAlex author IDs.
- For the FY2021–FY2025 project records, we searched NIH RePORTER, NSF Award Search, and USAspending for likely award records. 411 project rows link to a likely public award record.
- The leveraged extramural total comes from partner institution reports, not from adding up the matched federal records.
- The report's Method section defines every figure and lists its sources.
What ABI received
- An interactive web report in eight sections: Overview, The record, Institutions, Portfolio, Investigators, Outputs, Context, and Method
- Five downloadable CSV datasets: funding history, project portfolio, investigators, top publications, and clinical trials
- A print layout for saving the whole report as a PDF
- A self-contained static site, hosted by Blackberry Briar and embedded on ABI's website
What the report documents
These figures are reported by ABI and its partner institutions. As the report explains, comparing the two funding totals is not a financial return and does not imply that ABI caused a particular award.
ABI presents the report on its own website at arbiosciences.org/impact-report.
Who did what
The research, grants, and outcomes in the report belong to ABI's investigators and partner institutions. ABI provided its internal records. Blackberry Briar compiled and checked the data, matched it to public sources, and designed and built the report.
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