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Ken Chen

NIH Rank #1473
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Top 10% Funded
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
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ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2026 onlyCareer claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award categories

  • BIOSTATISTICS & OTHER MATH SCI

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$3M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
2
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#1,473
By linked amount among FY2026 PIs
Earliest Year Loaded
2026
ScienceDex PI coverage

One scientist record

NIH portfolios and SHARE

This is the common ScienceDex page for Ken Chen. 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

NCI

National Cancer Institute

$2.3M

3 awards · administering

OD

NIH Office of the Director

$1.5M

1 awards · funding

Researcher-associated datasets

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.

Award data coverage

ScienceDex currently has one fiscal year of PI ranking data for this record. This does not establish the first NIH award or current employer.

Single fiscal year on record (FY2026): $3M in linked award amounts across 2 award records · Award-linked rank #1473.

FY2026 award records by amount

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

  • 1UM1CA321705-01UM1
    OPTIMA: Oncology Precision Trials using Individualized Model Avatars
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    $3M
    award amount
  • 1U24CA294136-01A1U24
    Enabling functional multimodal characterization of cancer evolution from single-cell data
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    $813.3K
    award amount
  • 1R13CA310751-01R13
    2026 Single-Cell Cancer Biology Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar
    Gordon Research Conferences
    $10K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Ken Chen as a PI.

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
TX
$3.8M
2 grants
Gordon Research Conferences
RI
$10K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2026
    First NIH Award
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
  2. 2026
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2026
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2026
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2026
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1473
  6. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1473
  7. 2026
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1473
  8. 2026
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Ken Chen.

Anil Korkut
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1
shared award
Xiling Shen
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1
shared award

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