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Laura Ensign

From the FY2024 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2024 NIH rank #1,247
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Top 10% Funded
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2024

Linked Award Amount
$4.7M
Full award amounts, FY2024
Award Records
8
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#1,247
By linked amount among FY2024 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$4,659,2798#1,247
2025$3,756,6307#2,299
2026$2,983,3956#6,233

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY2024 · selected8 records
  2. FY20257 records
  3. FY20266 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 Laura Ensign. 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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FY2024 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
Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 11802366Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
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

  • Ophthalmology
  • Internal Medicine

FY2024 award records by amount

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

  • 5R44EY035177-02R44Co-investigator
    Pharmaceutical development of longer-lasting brimonidine eye drops
    Novus Vision LLC
    $964.5K
    award amount
  • 5U24EY035078-02U24Contact PI
    Development of standardized resources for characterization of the resident ocular surface microbiome.
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $876.6K
    award amount
  • 5R01HD103124-04R01Contact PI
    Nanomedicine approaches for prevention of inflammation-induced preterm birth
    Johns Hopkins University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $623.4K
    award amount
  • 5R01HD108905-02R01Contact PI
    Nanomedicine-based approach for characterizing the epigenome in prevention of inflammation-induced preterm birth.
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $602.4K
    award amount
  • 1R01EY034902-01A1R01Contact PI
    Topical drug delivery formulations for neuroprotection in glaucoma
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $539.2K
    award amount
  • 5R01EY033386-03R01Contact PI
    Eye drop formulations for enhanced penetration of water soluble antibiotics to treat infections
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $471.4K
    award amount
  • 1R01EY036027-01R01Contact PI
    Topical delivery of HIF-1 inhibitors for retinal and choroidal vascular diseases
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $436.7K
    award amount
  • 3U24EY035078-01S1U24Contact PI
    Development of standardized resources for characterization of the resident ocular surface microbiome.
    Johns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code)
    $145K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2024 awards listing Laura Ensign as a PI.

Johns Hopkins University
MD
$3.7M
7 grants
Novus Vision LLC
MD
$964.5K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Johns Hopkins University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1247
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1247
  7. 2024
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1247
  8. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  10. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  11. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Laura Ensign.

Justin S. Hanes
Johns Hopkins University
6
shared awards
Irina Burd
Johns Hopkins University
5
shared awards
Peter A Campochiaro
Johns Hopkins University
3
shared awards
Steven L. Salzberg
Johns Hopkins University
3
shared awards
Amer Riazuddin
Johns Hopkins University
2
shared awards
Donald J. Zack
Johns Hopkins University
2
shared awards
Jeremy Nathans
Johns Hopkins University
2
shared awards
Sezen Karakus
Johns Hopkins University
2
shared awards
Michael P Cummings
Johns Hopkins University
1
shared award
Tung Heng Hsueh
Novus Vision LLC
1
shared award

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