Ralph A Defronzo

UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)

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

FY2026 NIH rank #6,822

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R01 Holder
Early Career

Researcher identity and coverage

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ScienceDex PI coverage: FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award categories

Internal Medicine

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount

$2.7M

Full award amounts, FY2026

Award Records

Records listing this PI

Award-Linked Rank

#6,822

By linked amount among FY2026 PIs

Earliest Year Loaded

2024

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Award-linked funding history

Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Ralph A Defronzo as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

1R01DK145103-01A1R01Co-investigator
Identification of cell type-specific insulin responsive quantitative trait loci in human skeletal muscle
UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$707.8K
award amount
5R01DK129676-05R01Co-investigator
Targeting hepatic mitochondrial function in humans with NAFLD using insulin sensitizers
UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$682.1K
award amount
5R01DK024092-41R01Contact PI
SGLT2 Inhibitors, Ketogenesis, and Ketoacidosis
UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$674.2K
award amount
5R01DK107680-10R01Contact PI
Ketones, Muscle Metabolism, and SGLT2 Inhibitors
UT Health Science Center Houston · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$647.3K
award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Ralph A Defronzo as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by UT Health Science Center Houston (TX).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

2024
First NIH Award
UT Health Science Center Houston
2024
$500K Cumulative Funding
2024
$1M Cumulative Funding
2024
Entered Top 50% Nationally
Ranked #5610
2025
$2M Cumulative Funding
2025
R01 Grant Holder
2026
$5M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Ralph A Defronzo.

Luke Norton

UT Health Science Center Houston

shared awards

Stephen Cj Parker

UT Health Science Center Houston

shared award

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