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Michael L Merchant

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

FY2026 NIH rank #8,302
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$2.4M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
2
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#8,302
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$1,511,3933#8,487
2025$697,7311#23,413
2026$2,382,8622#8,302

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20243 records
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY2026 · selected2 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 Michael L Merchant. 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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FY2027 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.

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 8638276Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
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 categories

  • Pharmacology
  • Public Health

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Michael L Merchant as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Michael L Merchant as a PI.

University of Louisville
KY
$1.6M
1 grant
University of Pittsburgh
PA
$812.9K
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 #8487
  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

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Michael L Merchant.

Panagiotis V Benos
University of Pittsburgh
4
shared awards
Gavin E Arteel
University of Pittsburgh
3
shared awards
Amanda Jo Leblanc
University of Louisville
2
shared awards
Andres Duarte-Rojo
University of Pittsburgh
2
shared awards
J Christopher States
University of Louisville
2
shared awards
Juw Won Park
University of Louisville
2
shared awards
Luz G Huntington-Moskos
University of Louisville
2
shared awards
Matthew C Cave
University of Louisville
2
shared awards
Tina Costacou
University of Pittsburgh
1
shared award

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