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Melissa Laird Smith

FY2024 NIH rank #6,130
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  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Multi-Institutional
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2024

Linked Award Amount
$1.9M
Full award amounts, FY2024
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#6,130
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$1,856,8523#6,130
2025$1,866,8533#7,454
2026$12,126,2274#571

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY2024 · selected3 records
  2. FY20253 records
  3. FY20264 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 Laird Smith. 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

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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

  • Biochemistry
  • Pathology
  • Internal Medicine

FY2024 award records by amount

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

  • 5R24AI138963-07R24Co-investigator
    An ethnically diverse genomic reference resource for the human heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci
    University of Louisville · Biochemistry (NIH department code)
    $782.4K
    award amount
  • 5R01DK131926-03R01Co-investigator
    T-cell depletion and maintenance of the HIV-1 latent reservoir in distinct tissue compartments
    Johns Hopkins University · Pathology (NIH department code)
    $682.5K
    award amount
  • 5R01HG011252-04R01Co-investigator
    Long-read assembly and annotation of rat genomes that are important models of complex genetic disease
    UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $392K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2024 awards listing Melissa Laird Smith as a PI.

University of Louisville
KY
$782.4K
1 grant
Johns Hopkins University
MD
$682.5K
1 grant
UT Health Science Center Houston
TX
$392K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    University of Louisville
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #6130
  5. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 3 institutions
  7. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  8. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding
  10. 2026
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #571
  11. 2026
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #571
  12. 2026
    Entered Top 5% Nationally
    Ranked #571

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Melissa Laird Smith.

Aaron A Tobian
Johns Hopkins University
3
shared awards
Corey Taylor Watson
University of Louisville
3
shared awards
Peter A Doris
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Theodore Kalbfleisch
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Andrew A Gibb
University of Louisville
1
shared award
Banrida Wahlang
University of Louisville
1
shared award
Bradford Guy Hill
University of Louisville
1
shared award
Clara G Sears
University of Louisville
1
shared award
Jason L Hellmann
University of Louisville
1
shared award
Josiah E Hardesty
University of Louisville
1
shared award

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