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Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

FY2026 NIH rank #3,391
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$4.5M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
12
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#3,391
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
View yearly values
Award-linked funding and rank by fiscal year
Fiscal yearLinked awardsRecordsRank
2024$3,806,2748#1,747
2025$3,223,78712#3,027
2026$4,508,33512#3,391

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20248 records
  2. FY202512 records
  3. FY2026 · selected12 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 Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum. 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

NCI

National Cancer Institute

$1.7M

6 awards · administering

NIBIB

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

$1.5M

4 awards · administering

NIDCR

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

$708.2K

1 awards · administering

NHLBI

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

$619K

1 awards · administering

FIC

Fogarty International Center

$20K

1 awards · funding

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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 8354863Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2347-9467Verified identifier for this researcher
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

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5U54EB034652-04U54Contact PI
    The Center for Innovation and Translation of Point of Care Technologies for Expanded Cancer Care Access (CITEC)
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $1.3M
    award amount
  • 5R01DE032051-05R01Contact PI
    Deep learning microscope for slide-free and digital histology
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $708.2K
    award amount
  • 5U54CA277843-04U54Co-investigator
    The AVANÇO Research Consortium: A Mozambique/Brazil/Texas Alliance to advance novel and affordable technologies for the prevention and diagnosis of cervical cancer in women living with HIV
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code)
    $647.8K
    award amount
  • 5R01HL166413-04R01Contact PI
    A Sample-to-Answer Point-of-Care Diagnostic for Recently Transfused Sickle Cell Anemia Patients in Low Resource Settings
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $619K
    award amount
  • 5U01CA292741-03U01Contact PI
    Sample-to-answer HPV DNA nucleic acid test for cervical cancer screening in Mozambique
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $586.8K
    award amount
  • 3U54CA277843-04S1U54Co-investigator
    The AVANÇO Research Consortium: A Mozambique/Brazil/Texas Alliance to advance novel and affordable technologies for the prevention and diagnosis of cervical cancer in women living with HIV
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code)
    $252K
    award amount
  • 1R21EB038806-01R21Co-investigator
    Multi-Modal, Multi-Depth, High Resolution Micro-Endoscope (M3D-HRME) for early cancer diagnostics
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $182.7K
    award amount
  • 3U54CA277843-04S3U54Co-investigator
    The AVANÇO Research Consortium: A Mozambique/Brazil/Texas Alliance to advance novel and affordable technologies for the prevention and diagnosis of cervical cancer in women living with HIV
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code)
    $120.1K
    award amount
  • 3U01CA292741-03S1U01Contact PI
    Sample-to-answer HPV DNA nucleic acid test for cervical cancer screening in Mozambique
    Rice University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)
    $51.7K
    award amount
  • 3U54CA277843-04S2U54Co-investigator
    The AVANÇO Research Consortium: A Mozambique/Brazil/Texas Alliance to advance novel and affordable technologies for the prevention and diagnosis of cervical cancer in women living with HIV
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code)
    $40K
    award amount

+2 more grants not shown.

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum as a PI.

Rice University
TX
$3.4M
8 grants
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
TX
$1.1M
4 grants

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Rice University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #1747
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #1747
  7. 2024
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1747
  8. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  10. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  11. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  12. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum.

Cesaltina Ferreira Lorenzoni
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Elizabeth Y. Chiao
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Kathleen Schmeler
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Regis Kreitchmann
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Sharmila Anandasabapathy
Rice University
9
shared awards
Vanderlei S Bagnato
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Tomasz S Tkaczyk
Rice University
8
shared awards
Cesaltina Ferreira Lorenzoni
Rice University
5
shared awards
Jane R Montealegre
Rice University
5
shared awards
Ann M Gillenwater
Rice University
4
shared awards

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