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Kirsten Nielsen

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

FY2026 NIH rank #6,441
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$2.9M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
6
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#6,441
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$1,993,6584#5,391
2025$1,487,7452#10,191
2026$2,910,4306#6,441

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20244 records
  2. FY20252 records
  3. FY2026 · selected6 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 Kirsten Nielsen. 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.

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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

  • Pharmacology
  • VETERINARY SCIENCES

FY2026 award records by amount

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

  • 1R56AI177505-01A1R56Co-investigator
    Ionic Liquids to improve oral bioavailability and in vivo efficacy of oxfendazole
    University of Arizona · Pharmacology (NIH department code)
    $779.4K
    award amount
  • 5R01AI176922-05R01Contact PI
    Continuum of Immune Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans
    Virginia Tech · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code)
    $765.8K
    award amount
  • 5R01AI134636-08R01Contact PI
    Impact of Cryptococcus titan cells on pathogenesis
    Virginia Tech · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code)
    $721.9K
    award amount
  • 2R01NS118538-06R01Contact PI
    Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis
    Virginia Tech · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code)
    $368.8K
    award amount
  • 3R01NS118538-06S1R01Contact PI
    Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis
    Virginia Tech · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code)
    $152K
    award amount
  • 3R01NS118538-06S2R01Contact PI
    Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis
    Virginia Tech · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code)
    $122.5K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Kirsten Nielsen as a PI.

Virginia Tech
VA
$2.1M
5 grants
University of Arizona
AZ
$779.4K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Virginia Tech
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #5391
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  7. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  8. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Kirsten Nielsen.

David Bisagaya Meya
Virginia Tech
3
shared awards
Joel Bazira
Virginia Tech
3
shared awards
Abhijit A Date
University of Arizona
1
shared award
David Bisagaya Meya
University of Minnesota
1
shared award
Joel Bazira
University of Minnesota
1
shared award

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