In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Germany and Japan, being the United Nations' second and third largest funders respectively, demanded a reform of the United Nations Security Council and an increase of the number of its permanent members.
Thursday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)—the second largest funder of cancer research in the United States after the National Cancer Institute can now resume handing out research grants, including 118 awards that were approved before a moratorium took effect last December.
It is the second largest funder of NTD research and development as found by Moran et al. [ 3] and the data on BMGF funding grantees is openly available.
The UK government is the second largest national funder of global health research and development, after the US.
Such an upbeat result seemed unlikely just a month ago, after both the House and Senate approved budgets that would have punched major holes in research programs at DOE, the federal government's third-largest funder of basic research.
"It's his first day in office and he votes against the Speaker, the largest funder of the N.R.C.C.
The Wellcome Trust is the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, last year dispensing £727m in grants.
Today it stands as the second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, last year dispensing more than £727m in grants.
The Wellcome Trust, which considers "climate change to be one of the greatest contemporary challenges to global health", is the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, dispensing £727m in grants in 2014.
Given this concern, I'd been following the Guardian's Keep it in the Ground campaign with interest and encouragement, particularly the demand for the Wellcome Trust, the second largest non-governmental funder of health research in the world, to divest its holdings in fossil fuels.
