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number cerebrovascular cv surgeons grown rise endovascular neurosurgery however unclear whether number cv surgeonscientists concomitantly increased increasing numbers cv neurosurgeons us workforce authors analyzed associated changes national institutes health nih neurosurgery research education foundation nref funding trends cv surgeons time publicly available data collected currently practicing academic cv surgeons us inflationadjusted nih funding 2009 2021 surveyed using nih reporter blue ridge institute medical research data k12 neurosurgeon research career development program nref grant data queried cvfocused grants pearson r correlation chisquare analysis mannwhitney utest used statistical analysis 2009 2021 nih funding increased total p 00318 neurosurgeons p 00001 cv research projects p 00001 cv surgeons p 00018 time period increase total number cv surgeons p 00001 number nihfunded cv surgeons p 00034 percentage cv surgeons nih funding p 0370 additionally active nih grant dollars per cv surgeon p 00398 number nih grants per cv surgeon p 04257 increased nevertheless cv surgeons awarded decreasing proportion overall pool neurosurgeonawarded nih grants time period p 03095 addition significant decrease number k08 k12 k23 career development awards granted cv surgeons time period p 00024 also significant decline proportion k12 p 00044 downtrend earlycareer nref p 08978 grant applications grants awarded time period finally nihfunded cv surgeons likely completed residency less recently p 0001 less likely completed endovascular fellowship p 0044 compared nonnihfunded cv surgeons number cv surgeons increasing time concomitant increase number nihfunded cv surgeons number nih grants awarded per cv surgeon past 12 years also significant decrease cv surgeons k08 k12 k23 career development awards downtrend cvfocused k12 earlycareer nref applications awarded grants latter findings suggest pipeline future nihfunded cv surgeons may decline