For academic medical centers
The funding engine for your academic medical center
Auto-built faculty profiles, personalized funding matches in every researcher’s inbox, proposal management with AI review, and collaborator search across every department.
Academic medical centers running on Atom
Proof
The research tool your physician-scientists don’t ignore
They’re clinicians first: patients, OR time, 60-hour weeks. They’ve left legacy funding databases unopened for a decade. Denver Health’s first 90-day cohort has 100% retention; every clinician who tried Atom kept coming back. That’s what adoption looks like when the tool finally fits a physician-scientist’s workflow.
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Retention on Denver Health's first 90-day cohort
103:1
Faculty-to-RD-staff ratio NYU Langone runs on Atom
10k+
Federal, foundation, and disease-specific funders monitored
“Of the 100 or so researchers engaged in the first 90 days, every single one came back. Actually shockingly good.”
Amanda Breeden, CRA
Associate Chief, Research · Denver Health
The build trap
Built so you don't have to
Research hospitals often consider building this first. The prototype is a weekend. The next eighteen months are the hard part: modeling every NIH mechanism, foundation coverage that drifts weekly, dean-level rollups, and a vendor security review your team will rewrite twice. Your AI engineers can build it. They shouldn't have to.
“I ran the same expertise search in Atom that I run on our internal directory to staff review panels. The results were completely different. Atom is much better!”
Sherri Burda
Program Manager, NYU Langone Health
Build in-house
Multi-year project
Partner with Atom
Live in a week
Time to first clinician digest
12–18 months
Search · ingest · ramp · IT review
Week 1
Signed → live faculty digests
Year-one cost
$120k+ FTE + tooling
Research-systems hire
Fraction of an FTE
All-in subscription
Maintenance burden
Your team owns it forever
Funders change, models drift
Continuously updated
Shipped weekly, no ops on you
Coverage out of the gate
One source at a time
Months per funder integration
30,000+ funders day one
NIH + foundation + disease-specific
Faculty experience
Yet another portal
Clinicians won't log in
Digests in their inbox
Where faculty already are
Personalized outreach at scale
Personalize outreach to every clinician on your faculty
Your physician-scientists aren't traditional academics. They're clinicians first (patients, OR time, 60-hour weeks) and they won't log into a portal or hunt for grants with keywords. Atom auto-builds research profiles from PubMed, RePORTER, and ORCID, then sends each faculty member a curated weekly digest in their inbox.
“With Atom, I think we really move the needle in creating profiles for faculty when we didn't have any.”
Adnan Rangwala
Senior Director, NYU Langone Health
Inbox · Monday 7:42 AM
Atom Grants
digest@atomgrants.com
To: Dr. Sarah Patel · Cardiology
Your best fits this week: AHA, NHLBI
Good morning, Dr. Patel. Three new grants matched your work on heart failure outcomes and underrepresented populations.
Established Investigator Award
Why it fits: Your 2023 JACC paper on HFpEF biomarkers and AHA guidelines committee role map to this year's mid-career priority.
R01: Cardiovascular outcomes in underrepresented populations
Why it fits: Your R21 on disparities in 30-day HF readmission gives you preliminary data for the R01, and three co-authors at NYU map to the multi-site requirement.
See 8 more matches in Atom →
Analytics & oversight
Monitor every department from one place
The platforms you have today can't tell you which faculty are engaging, where research is concentrated, or whether any of it converts to applications. Atom's admin layer surfaces engagement, research interests across departments, and dean-ready ROI, automatically.
“We are seeing more and more departments doing their own little thing, and we'd rather bring people together to the table and actually give them a tool that works for everybody.”
Adnan Rangwala
Senior Director, NYU Langone Health
Engagement analytics
FacultyActive faculty
246
+12%SavedSaved grants
1,437
+38%SubmittedSubmissions
84
+21%By department
Sorted by matches
- Cardiology57/64 active312▲ 18%
- Oncology76/81 active490▲ 24%
- Neurology43/47 active273▲ 11%
- Pediatrics33/38 active198▼ 4%
- Surgery38/52 active168▲ 9%
In their words
From the people running it
“Our faculty and research admins all say it's so easy to use. It doesn't require the trainings.”
Amanda Breeden, CRA
Associate Chief, Research · Denver Health
“You guys have been great. You guys do good work. You make my life easier.”
Robert Kearns
Senior Manager, Business Solutions · NYU Langone Health
55+
research institutions building their research development programs on Atom.
Questions academic medical centers ask
An academic medical center can match faculty to funding automatically with Atom, which builds a research profile for every faculty member from PubMed, NIH RePORTER, and ORCID and matches each new opportunity to the people it fits. Each physician-scientist gets a weekly digest in their inbox with eligibility-checked grants and a short note on why each one fits their work. Nobody has to fill out a profile, choose keywords, or log into a portal.
Yes. Atom tracks NIH funding opportunities, including career development (K) awards and clinical trial announcements, alongside foundation and disease-specific funders. For each call, Atom reads the eligibility rules and checks them against each researcher's career stage, citizenship, and prior awards, so a career development award only reaches faculty who can actually apply. Sources are re-checked daily, and changed deadlines and cancelled calls are flagged automatically.
Atom tracks eligibility automatically by reading each NIH call and checking its rules (career stage, citizenship, institution type, and prior awards) against every researcher's profile. Because profiles are built from PubMed, RePORTER, and ORCID, each clinician's prior NIH funding is already on file, so faculty only see awards they qualify for. Your research office doesn't have to screen each clinician by hand before forwarding an opportunity.
They do when the matches come to their inbox: Denver Health's first 90-day cohort on Atom had 100% retention, with every clinician who tried it coming back. Atom sends each physician-scientist a short weekly digest ranked to their work, so there is no portal to learn and no keyword search to run. Denver Health saw an 800% increase in grant engagement after switching to Atom.
Yes. Atom works for hospitals and health systems that run research, with or without a university, and Denver Health runs on Atom alongside academic medical centers like NYU Langone Health and Rush. Onboarding starts from a CSV of researcher names and emails, and Atom builds each profile from publications and prior funding, so it doesn't depend on a university faculty directory.
Atom's admin analytics show engagement by department: which faculty are active, what research interests cluster where, which grants they save, and whether that turns into applications. Reporting is ready for the CRO and deans without anyone assembling it by hand, and NYU Langone Health runs a 103:1 faculty-to-research-development-staff ratio on Atom.
Yes. Atom's collaborator search covers researchers across every department, so you can find faculty by expertise for a multi-PI grant or an internal review panel. Sherri Burda, Program Manager at NYU Langone Health, ran the same expertise search in Atom and in the internal directory her team uses to staff review panels and found Atom's results much better.
Most academic medical centers are better off partnering, because the prototype is quick but the next 12 to 18 months are not: modeling every NIH mechanism, keeping foundation coverage current, building dean-level rollups, and passing a vendor security review. Atom is live in about a week with NIH, foundation, and disease-specific coverage from day one, updated continuously, for a fraction of the cost of a research-systems hire.