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Megan Sykes

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

FY2026 NIH rank #545
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Rising Star
  • Program Leader
  • Top 5% Funded
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$12.5M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
8
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#545
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
View yearly values
Award-linked funding and rank by fiscal year
Fiscal yearLinked awardsRecordsRank
2024$1,643,1874#7,517
2025$3,883,9475#2,163
2026$12,493,7908#545

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20244 records
  2. FY20255 records
  3. FY2026 · selected8 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 Megan Sykes. 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

NIAID

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

$10.5M

6 awards · administering

NIDDK

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

$1.2M

1 awards · administering

OD

NIH Office of the Director

$814.1K

1 awards · administering

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 1887410Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
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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

  • Internal Medicine
  • Surgery

FY2026 award records by amount

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

  • 5P01AI045897-25P01Contact PI
    A Tolerance Approach to Xenotransplantation
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $3.3M
    award amount
  • 1P01AI198696-01P01Contact PI
    Xenotransplantation without Immunosuppressive Maintenance (XTWIM)
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $3M
    award amount
  • 1P01AI181994-01A1P01Contact PI
    The Use of the Pig-to-Human Decedent Model to Optimize Future Results in Clinical Xenotransplantation Trials
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $2.1M
    award amount
  • 5R01AI180237-02R01Contact PI
    Preclinical Studies of Living and Deceased Donor Liver Allograft Tolerance
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $1.3M
    award amount
  • 5UG3DK142184-02UG3Contact PI
    Understanding thymic epithelial and hematopoietic stem cell-intrinsic immune abnormalities driving T1D in optimized HIS mouse models
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $1.2M
    award amount
  • 1R24OD037763-01A1R24Contact PI
    Provision of HLA-transgenic fetal pig thymus for human immune system mouse construction
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $814.1K
    award amount
  • 5R01AI177872-04R01Contact PI
    Thymic selection abnormalities in Type 1 Diabetes
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $763.7K
    award amount
  • 3P01AI045897-25S1P01Contact PI
    A Tolerance Approach to Xenotransplantation
    Columbia University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $44.5K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Megan Sykes as a PI.

Columbia University
NY
$10.4M
7 grants
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
NY
$2.1M
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Columbia University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #7517
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  7. 2025
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #2163
  8. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  9. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  10. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  11. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding
  12. 2026
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #545
  13. 2026
    Entered Top 5% Nationally
    Ranked #545

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Megan Sykes.

David H Sachs
Columbia University
4
shared awards
Greg Nowak
Columbia University
3
shared awards
Robert J Hawley
Columbia University
3
shared awards
Robert J Winchester
Columbia University
3
shared awards
Adam David Griesemer
Columbia University
2
shared awards
Holger A. Russ
Columbia University
2
shared awards
Remi J Creusot
Columbia University
2
shared awards
Tomoaki Kato
Columbia University
2
shared awards
Adam David Griesemer
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
1
shared award
Brendan James Keating
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
1
shared award

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