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Akil Merchant

From the FY2024 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2024 NIH rank #6,012
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2024

Linked Award Amount
$1.9M
Full award amounts, FY2024
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#6,012
By linked amount among FY2024 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. FY2024 · selected3 records
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY20261 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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FY2024 NIH portfolio memberships

No institute-level portfolio release is available for this scientist and fiscal year yet. Existing award history remains unchanged above.

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
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.

FY2024 award records by amount

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

  • 3U54CA260591-02S4U54Co-investigator
    Diversity and Determinants of the Immune-Inflammatory Response to SARS-CoV-2
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $989.3K
    award amount
  • 5R01CA266544-03R01Contact PI
    Spatially resolved, single cell biomarkers of B cell lymphoma
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $768.1K
    award amount
  • 3R01CA266544-02S1R01Contact PI
    Generation of novel murine B-cell lymphoma models using mosaic analysis by dual recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (MADR) to more closely resemble human B-cell lymphomas
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $118.9K
    award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2024 awards listing Akil Merchant as a PI.

FY2024 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
  7. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader

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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