Academic intelligence for graduate applicants
Find funded labs that fit your research —then verify who’s actually recruiting.
Search professors by research topic, university, public funding record, and momentum — using NSF/NIH grant data and academic graph intelligence across computational biology, genomics, and biomedical sciences.
Everything you need to qualify a lab
Four connected workflows built on the same NSF/NIH + academic-graph data — from first match to final shortlist.
How GradShore works
From a blank search to a tracked shortlist of fundable labs in three steps.
Search and filter promising professors
Search by research topic, professor, or university, then filter by grants, Rising Star status, and verified recruiting claims.
Investigate the signals on each profile
Active grants, recent papers, influence ranking, and career trajectory — background intelligence to narrow your list and shape the questions you'll ask.
Verify directly, then track your shortlist
Confirm recruiting and funding with the professor, current students, and your written offer — then save advisors to a watchlist and track updates.
Applicant guide
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Frequently asked questions
What is GradShore?
GradShore is an academic intelligence platform that helps prospective graduate students shortlist research advisors by research fit and public funding record. It covers US professors across computational biology, genomics, and biomedical sciences, combining NSF/NIH grant data, publication trends, and co-authorship network analysis into one searchable profile per professor — active grants are a starting point, not proof of an opening, so always verify recruiting and funding directly with the professor.
How does GradShore help me find a PhD or MS advisor?
You can search professors by name, institution, or research topic and filter by rank, active grants, Rising Star status, and whether they take MS thesis students. Each professor profile shows real NSF/NIH awards, recent publications, influence ranking, and live admission signals — a research shortlist you then verify directly with the professor before you email or apply.
Where does the grant and funding data come from?
Grant data is sourced from public NSF and NIH award records and matched to each professor. GradShore surfaces active awards, expiry status, and how a lab's funding compares to subfield peers — a factual public-record signal, not a prediction of open positions or how many students a lab can take on.
What is the Rising Star Radar?
Rising Stars are early-career professors who combine active funding or breakout citation growth with fast-growing publication output and rising co-authorship influence. GradShore surfaces them so you can find advisors worth investigating before they become well known.
How are influence rankings calculated?
GradShore ranks professors within each subfield using a PageRank-based influence score computed over the academic co-authorship graph, rather than relying on raw h-index or citation counts alone. This captures how central a researcher is to their field's collaboration network.
What are faction maps?
Faction maps are interactive visualizations of the co-authorship network within a research subfield. They reveal collaboration clusters — the "factions" — so you can understand who works with whom, identify research communities, and find labs connected to the researchers you already admire.
Which fields and institutions does GradShore cover?
GradShore covers computational biology, genomics, and biomedical sciences at US institutions. Individual field pages show the current number of indexed professors so coverage claims stay tied to the live taxonomy.
Is GradShore free to use?
Yes. Searching professors, viewing profiles, browsing Rising Stars, influence rankings, and faction maps are free. Creating an account lets you save professors to a watchlist and receive digests when they post new grants, papers, or recruiting updates.