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Ashok Kumar

NIH Rank #4216
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Early Career

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 8574507Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award categories

  • Pharmacology
  • Ophthalmology

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$1.7M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
4
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#4,216
By linked amount among FY2026 PIs
Earliest Year Loaded
2024
ScienceDex PI coverage

One scientist record

NIH portfolios and SHARE

This is the common ScienceDex page for Ashok Kumar. 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

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

Researcher-associated datasets

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No compatible author-to-dataset release is published. Dataset records are unavailable, not zero.

Award-linked funding history

Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.

FY2026 award records by amount

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

  • 5R01EY036572-02R01
    Defining Ocular Monkey Pox Pathogenic Mechanisms
    University of California, Los Angeles
    $699.6K
    award amount
  • 5R01EY027381-08R01
    Ferroptosis in bacterial endophthalmitis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic targeting
    Wayne State University
    $453.5K
    award amount
  • 5R01EY026964-10R01
    Targeting NAD metabolism to ameliorate bacterial endophthalmitis
    Wayne State University
    $320.3K
    award amount
  • 5R21EY037082-02R21
    Differential impact of acute and chronic opioids on ocular innate immunity and infections
    Wayne State University
    $231K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Ashok Kumar as a PI.

Wayne State University
MI
$1M
3 grants
University of California, Los Angeles
CA
$699.6K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Wayne State University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #6516
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  7. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  8. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #4216

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Ashok Kumar.

Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami
University of California, Los Angeles
3
shared awards

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