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Essa Yacoub

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

FY2026 NIH rank #569
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • Top 5% Funded
  • R01 Holder
  • Multi-Institutional
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$12.1M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
5
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#569
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$3,999,0292#1,630
2025$3,698,7152#2,359
2026$12,132,1965#569

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20242 records
  2. FY20252 records
  3. FY2026 · selected5 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 Essa Yacoub. 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.

Review metric definitions

FY2026 NIH portfolio memberships

NIA

National Institute on Aging

$7.5M

2 awards · administering

NIAAA

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

$2.5M

1 awards · funding

NINDS

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

$1.5M

2 awards · administering

NIMH

National Institute of Mental Health

$615.4K

1 awards · administering

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 6949910Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
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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

  • Neurology
  • Radiology
  • Neurosurgery

FY2026 award records by amount

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

  • 5U19AG073585-05U19Co-investigator
    VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCY IN THE AGING ADULT BRAIN CONNECTOME (AABC)
    Washington University in St. Louis · Neurology (NIH department code)
    $6.7M
    award amount
  • 5UM1NS132207-04UM1Co-investigator
    BRAIN CONNECTS: Center for Mesoscale Connectomics
    University of Minnesota · Radiology (NIH department code)
    $3M
    award amount
  • 5U01NS137991-02U01Co-investigator
    Laminar Circuit Motifs for Working Memory and Language Combinatorics: From Cells to Systems
    University of Iowa · Neurosurgery (NIH department code)
    $1M
    award amount
  • 3U19AG073585-05S1U19Co-investigator
    Vulnerability and Resiliency in the Aging Adult Brain Connectome (AABC)
    Washington University in St. Louis · Neurology (NIH department code)
    $777.5K
    award amount
  • 1R01MH138850-01A1R01Contact PI
    Precise Functional Characterization of the Developing Infant Brain using a Clinical 7T MRI Scanner
    University of Minnesota · Radiology (NIH department code)
    $615.4K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Essa Yacoub as a PI.

Washington University in St. Louis
MO
$7.5M
2 grants
University of Minnesota
MN
$3.6M
2 grants
University of Iowa
IA
$1M
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Washington University in St. Louis
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1630
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1630
  7. 2024
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1630
  8. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 3 institutions
  10. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  11. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  12. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding
  13. 2026
    Entered Top 5% Nationally
    Ranked #569

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Essa Yacoub.

Beau M Ances
Washington University in St. Louis
3
shared awards
Christophe Lenglet
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards
Damien A Fair
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards
David H Salat
Washington University in St. Louis
3
shared awards
Jan Zimmermann
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards
Kamil Ugurbil
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards
Michael P Harms
Washington University in St. Louis
3
shared awards
Robert C. Welsh
Washington University in St. Louis
3
shared awards
Sarah Rachel Heilbronner
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards
Taner Akkin
University of Minnesota
3
shared awards

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