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Rama Rao Amara

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

FY2026 NIH rank #554
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Top 5% Funded
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career
  • Mentor
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$12.4M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
7
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#554
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$9,299,9297#379
2025$7,133,2654#805
2026$12,388,2387#554

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20247 records
  2. FY20254 records
  3. FY2026 · selected7 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 Rama Rao Amara. 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

NIAID

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

$12.4M

7 awards · administering

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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

  • Pathology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Microbiology & Immunology

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Rama Rao Amara as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5UM1AI169662-05UM1Co-investigator
    B and T Cell Biology of Protection from and Eradication of SIV/SHIV Infection
    Emory University · Pathology (NIH department code)
    $5.7M
    award amount
  • 2U19AI159819-06U19Contact PI
    Protective immunity to HCV and rational vaccine design
    Emory University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $3.3M
    award amount
  • 1R01AI203566-01R01Co-investigator
    Induction of Protective B and T Cell Immunity against HIV Using DNA/LION Platform
    Emory University · Pathology (NIH department code)
    $1.2M
    award amount
  • 1R01AI200749-01R01Contact PI
    Induction of strong and durable cellular and humoral immunity against HIV using DNA-LNPs
    Emory University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code)
    $910K
    award amount
  • 5R01AI112787-13R01Contact PI
    Targeting PD-1 Pathway for Functional Cure of AIDS
    Emory University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code)
    $907.9K
    award amount
  • 5T32AI074492-18T32Co-investigator
    Training a new generation of vaccinologists
    Emory University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $261.9K
    award amount
  • 3T32AI074492-18S1T32Co-investigator
    Training a new generation of vaccinologists
    Emory University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $164.8K
    award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Rama Rao Amara as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by Emory University (GA).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Emory University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #379
  7. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #379
  8. 2024
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #379
  9. 2024
    Entered Top 5% Nationally
    Ranked #379
  10. 2025
    $10M Cumulative Funding
  11. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  12. 2026
    $25M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Rama Rao Amara.

Benjamin A Lopman
Emory University
6
shared awards
Nadine Georges Rouphael
Emory University
6
shared awards
Eric Hunter
Emory University
4
shared awards
Arash Grakoui
Emory University
2
shared awards
Amit Kapoor
Emory University
1
shared award
David Masopust
Emory University
1
shared award
Gabriel Ozorowski
Emory University
1
shared award
George N. Pavlakis
Emory University
1
shared award
Naglaa H. Shoukry
Emory University
1
shared award
Vijayakumar Velu
Emory University
1
shared award

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