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Kevin O Saunders

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

FY2026 NIH rank #1,180
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Top 10% Funded
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$8.3M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
5
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#1,180
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$4,415,5312#1,369
2025$1,541,1461#9,673
2026$8,297,0485#1,180

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20242 records
  2. FY20251 record
  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 Kevin O Saunders. 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

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

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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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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ORCID iD
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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

  • Surgery
  • Internal Medicine

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Kevin O Saunders as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5U19AI160546-05U19Contact PI
    Conjugate nanoparticle platform development for HIV-1 envelope immunogens
    Duke University · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $4.8M
    award amount
  • 1R56AI200612-01R56Contact PI
    A T and B Cell Therapeutic Countermeasure to Functionally Cure Lentiviral Infection
    Duke University · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $1.2M
    award amount
  • 1R01AI195543-01R01Contact PI
    Discovery and Optimization of Broadly Protective Merbecovirus Neutralizing Antibodies
    Duke University · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $829.7K
    award amount
  • 1R01AI200666-01R01Co-investigator
    Investigating the development and contribution of individual plasma B cells to broad HIV serum neutralization
    Duke University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $783.7K
    award amount
  • 1R01AI201438-01R01Contact PI
    Development of broadly protective merbecovirus and sarbecovirus countermeasures
    Duke University · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $756.9K
    award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Kevin O Saunders as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by Duke University (NC).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Duke University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1369
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1369
  7. 2024
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1369
  8. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  10. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Kevin O Saunders.

Jason Dickens
Duke University
3
shared awards
Kevin Wiehe
Duke University
1
shared award

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