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Karen A Kirby

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

FY2026 NIH rank #1,908
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • Top 10% Funded
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$6.3M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#1,908
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$585,4741#27,162
2025$797,3592#20,268
2026$6,302,9863#1,908

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20241 record
  2. FY20252 records
  3. FY2026 · selected3 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 Karen A Kirby. 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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FY2027 NIH portfolio memberships

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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

  • Pediatrics

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Karen A Kirby as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5U54AI170855-05U54Contact PI
    Behavior of HIV in Viral Environments (B-HIVE)
    Seattle Children's Hospital · Pediatrics (investigator's affiliation)
    $5.8M
    award amount
  • 1R21AI199669-01R21Contact PI
    Characterization of potent antivirals targeting HBV capsid
    Emory University · Pediatrics (NIH department code)
    $249.2K
    award amount
  • 5R21AI189247-02R21Contact PI
    Novel HIV capsid-targeting antivirals maintain activity against lenacapavir-resistant viruses
    Emory University · Pediatrics (NIH department code)
    $234.2K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Karen A Kirby as a PI.

Seattle Children's Hospital
WA
$5.8M
1 grant
Emory University
GA
$483.4K
2 grants

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Seattle Children's Hospital
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2025
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  5. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  6. 2026
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  7. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  8. 2026
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1908
  9. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1908
  10. 2026
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1908

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Karen A Kirby.

Alan N. Engelman
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Andrew Laurence Routh
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Bruce Edward Torbett
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Dmitry Lyumkis
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Gregory A. Voth
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Gregory B Melikian
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards
Stefan G Sarafianos
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
shared awards

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