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Leif W Ellisen

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

FY2026 NIH rank #2,139
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  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$6M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
4
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#2,139
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$1,968,6384#5,515
2025$2,182,2464#5,813
2026$5,951,7764#2,139

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20244 records
  2. FY20254 records
  3. FY2026 · selected4 records

Each bar starts at zero. Annual records can include renewals of the same project; they are not a count of distinct career grants.

Citation measures

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One scientist record

NIH portfolios and SHARE

This is the common ScienceDex page for Leif W Ellisen. 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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FY2026 NIH portfolio memberships

NCI

National Cancer Institute

$6M

4 awards · administering

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
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ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0444-7910Verified identifier for this researcher
ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Leif W Ellisen as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5P50CA168504-12P50Contact PI
    Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    $2.5M
    award amount
  • 4R01CA294793-03R01Co-investigator
    Elucidating resistance mechanisms and enhancing response to immune checkpoint blockade in central nervous system metastases from breast cancer
    Massachusetts General Hospital · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $2.1M
    award amount
  • 5R01CA248923-05R01Contact PI
    Subclonal heterogeneity and outcome disparities in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer among African Americans
    Massachusetts General Hospital · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $784.1K
    award amount
  • 5R01CA260890-05R01Contact PI
    Synergistic combinatorial DNA damage response/repair inhibition and Sacituzumab Govitecan in triple-negative breast cancer
    Massachusetts General Hospital · Internal Medicine (investigator's affiliation)
    $559.8K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Leif W Ellisen as a PI.

Massachusetts General Hospital
MA
$3.4M
3 grants
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
MA
$2.5M
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #5515
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  7. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  8. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  9. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  10. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding
  11. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #2139

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Leif W Ellisen.

Aditya Bardia
Massachusetts General Hospital
3
shared awards
Naomi Yu Ko
Massachusetts General Hospital
3
shared awards
Priscilla Kaliopi Brastianos
Massachusetts General Hospital
3
shared awards
Deborah A. Dillon
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Geoffrey I. Shapiro
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Judy E. Garber
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Kornelia Polyak
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Myles A Brown
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Nabihah Tayob
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards
Nancy U Lin
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2
shared awards

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