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Byron D. Ford

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

FY2026 NIH rank #2,456
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Rising Star
  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$5.4M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
2
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#2,456
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$544,2521#28,905
2025$1,201,4121#13,574
2026$5,445,4542#2,456

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20241 record
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY2026 · selected2 records

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 Byron D. Ford. 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

NIMHD

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

$4.9M

1 awards · administering

NINDS

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

$555.2K

1 awards · administering

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These datasets are linked to this researcher's ShareScore identity. This does not by itself prove that an NIH portfolio funded each dataset.

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

Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
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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 categories

  • Biochemistry
  • Microbiology & Immunology

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Byron D. Ford as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5U54MD007597-37U54Contact PI
    Howard University Research Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
    Howard University · Biochemistry (NIH department code)
    $4.9M
    award amount
  • 5R01NS125775-04R01Co-investigator
    Protective role of Neuregulin-1 against cerebral malaria-induced neuronal injury and behavioral sequelae
    Morehouse School of Medicine · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code)
    $555.2K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Byron D. Ford as a PI.

Howard University
DC
$4.9M
1 grant
Morehouse School of Medicine
GA
$555.2K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Howard University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2025
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  5. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  6. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  7. 2026
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  8. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2026
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #2456
  10. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #2456

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Byron D. Ford.

Carla D Williams
Howard University
2
shared awards
Emily M Cramer
Howard University
2
shared awards
Georges E. Haddad
Howard University
2
shared awards
Jonathan K. Stiles
Morehouse School of Medicine
2
shared awards
Tatiana V.d. Sanses
Howard University
2
shared awards
William M. Southerland
Howard University
2
shared awards

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