Academic intelligence for graduate applicants
Find research advisors who are funded and recruiting.
More than a search box: describe your interests and GradShore matches you to advisors — ranked by topic fit, funding health, and momentum — using NSF/NIH grant data and academic graph intelligence across computational biology and genomics.
Everything you need to qualify a lab
Six intelligence tools built on the same NSF/NIH + academic-graph data — from first match to final shortlist.
Describe your interests — get matched advisors
Don't know who to apply to? Type your research interests and GradShore reverse-recommends professors, ranked by topic fit, funding strength, and rising momentum — with actively-recruiting labs flagged.
Find an advisor →Know if a lab can actually fund you
Each profile shows active NSF/NIH awards, a colour-coded expiry warning, how a lab's funding ranks against subfield peers, and an estimate of how many students it can support. Avoid joining a lab that runs out of money.
Browse funded labs →Spot rising stars vs. coasting on old work
Year-by-year publication and citation trends, a funding timeline, and a subfield peer-median line tell you whether a professor is climbing or living off past glory — the difference a CV alone hides.
Explore professors →Compare schools by your exact subfield
Rankings are too coarse. GradShore ranks institutions within a specific research area by faculty count, h-index, citations, active funding, and rising-star ratio — so you apply where your field is actually strong.
Compare departments →Rank professors by real network influence
Go beyond raw h-index. GradShore ranks researchers within each subfield by a PageRank score over the academic co-authorship graph, capturing who is truly central to a field.
View rankings →See who collaborates with whom
Interactive co-authorship maps reveal the collaboration clusters inside each subfield and around each professor, so you can find the labs connected to the work you admire — and the bridges between them.
Open a cluster map →How GradShore works
From a blank search to a tracked shortlist of fundable labs in three steps.
Match by interest, or search directly
Describe your research interests in Advisor Finder for ranked matches, or filter professors by grants, Rising Star status, and recruiting status.
Read the signals on each profile
Active grants, recent papers, influence ranking, and live recruiting signals — everything you need to qualify a lab.
Build your shortlist and track it
Save advisors to a watchlist and get notified when they post new grants, papers, or recruiting updates.
Frequently asked questions
What is GradShore?
GradShore is an academic intelligence platform that helps prospective graduate students find research advisors who are actively funded and recruiting. It focuses on US computational biology and genomics professors, combining NSF/NIH grant data, publication trends, and co-authorship network analysis into one searchable profile per 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 with estimated student capacity, recent publications, influence ranking, and live admission signals — so you can target labs that are funded and recruiting 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 and estimates how many graduate students a principal investigator can likely support, so you can prioritize labs with the budget to fund new students.
What is the Rising Star Radar?
Rising Stars are early-career professors who combine active funding with fast-growing publication output and rising co-authorship influence. They are often the most likely to take on and mentor new graduate students, and GradShore surfaces them so you can find high-upside advisors 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 currently focuses on computational biology and genomics at US institutions. Coverage of additional disciplines is expanding over time.
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.