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Melissa Laird Smith

NIH Rank #7454
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Multi-Institutional
  • Early Career

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 11573326Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award categories

  • Biochemistry
  • Pathology
  • Internal Medicine

NIH Funding · FY2025

Linked Award Amount
$1.9M
Full award amounts, FY2025
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#7,454
By linked amount among FY2025 PIs
Earliest Year Loaded
2024
ScienceDex PI coverage

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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FY2025 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

These datasets are linked to this researcher's ShareScore identity. This does not by itself prove that an NIH portfolio funded each dataset.

No compatible author-to-dataset release is published. Dataset records are unavailable, not zero.

Award-linked funding history

Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.

FY2025 award records by amount

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

  • 5R24AI138963-08R24
    An ethnically diverse genomic reference resource for the human heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci
    University of Louisville
    $782.4K
    award amount
  • 5R01DK131926-04R01
    T-cell depletion and maintenance of the HIV-1 latent reservoir in distinct tissue compartments
    Johns Hopkins University
    $710.9K
    award amount
  • 5R01HG011252-05R01
    Long-read assembly and annotation of rat genomes that are important models of complex genetic disease
    UT Health Science Center Houston
    $373.5K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2025 awards listing Melissa Laird Smith as a PI.

University of Louisville
KY
$782.4K
1 grant
Johns Hopkins University
MD
$710.9K
1 grant
UT Health Science Center Houston
TX
$373.5K
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

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
2
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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