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Akil Merchant

From the FY2026 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2026 NIH rank #33,321
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$509.7K
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
1
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#33,321
By linked amount among FY2026 PIs
Earliest Year Loaded
2024
ScienceDex PI coverage

Award-linked funding history

Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.

Linked awards ($M)Award-linked rank
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Award-linked funding and rank by fiscal year
Fiscal yearLinked awardsRecordsRank
2024$1,876,2083#6,012
2025$624,0931#26,613
2026$509,7321#33,321

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20243 records
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY2026 · selected1 record

Each bar starts at zero. Annual records can include renewals of the same project; they are not a count of distinct career grants.

One scientist record

NIH portfolios and SHARE

This is the common ScienceDex page for Akil Merchant. NIH portfolio memberships are contextual views of this scientist, while SHARE Score, S-Index, and S-Impact describe the researcher's global sharing track record.

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FY2026 NIH portfolio memberships

NCI

National Cancer Institute

$509.7K

1 awards · administering

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 7648857Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-822XVerified identifier for this researcher
ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.Metrics use this researcher's latest loaded PI award year; ScienceDex is current through FY2027.

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Akil Merchant as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Akil Merchant as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CA).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #6012
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Akil Merchant.

Jane C. Figueiredo
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1
shared award
Michael Karin
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1
shared award

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