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Melissa Emery Thompson

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

FY2026 NIH rank #10,601
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$2M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#10,601
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$1,395,0172#9,700
2025$1,964,0173#6,951
2026$1,971,2093#10,601

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20242 records
  2. FY20253 records
  3. FY2026 · selected3 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 Melissa Emery Thompson. 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

NIA

National Institute on Aging

$2M

3 awards · administering

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
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 records by amount

NIH award records listing Melissa Emery Thompson as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5R01AG087961-03R01Co-investigator
    Great apes and the evolutionary origins of long life: the influences of early life adversity on lifespan and individual frailty in wild chimpanzees and gorillas
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund I
    $752.2K
    award amount
  • 7R37AG049395-10R37Contact PI
    Cumulative Life Course Effects on Aging and Health in a Long-Lived Primate Model
    Duke University
    $734.8K
    award amount
  • 7R33AG078468-04R33Contact PI
    Novel frameworks for explaining unequal access to the health benefits of social ties: a longitudinal analysis in chimpanzees
    Duke University
    $484.2K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Melissa Emery Thompson as a PI.

Duke University
NC
$1.2M
2 grants
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund I
GA
$752.2K
1 grant

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
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #9700
  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 Melissa Emery Thompson.

Elizabeth Vinson Lonsdorf
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund I
3
shared awards
Fernando Alonso Campos
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund I
3
shared awards
Shannon C McFarlin
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund I
3
shared awards
Alexandra G Rosati
University of New Mexico
2
shared awards
Elizabeth Vinson Lonsdorf
University of New Mexico
2
shared awards
Ian Gilby
University of New Mexico
2
shared awards
Tony L. Goldberg
University of New Mexico
2
shared awards
Elizabeth Vinson Lonsdorf
Duke University
1
shared award
Zarin MacHanda
University of New Mexico
1
shared award
Zarin MacHanda
Duke University
1
shared award

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