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Ruben A. Mesa

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

FY2026 NIH rank #6,770
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  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$2.8M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
2
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#6,770
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$1,029,6837#14,524
2025$3,174,5134#3,110
2026$2,814,7622#6,770

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20247 records
  2. FY20254 records
  3. FY2026 · selected2 records

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Citation measures

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One scientist record

NIH portfolios and SHARE

This is the common ScienceDex page for Ruben A. Mesa. 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

$2.8M

2 awards · administering

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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Publications

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 1938118Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5880-7972Verified identifier for this researcher
ScienceDex PI coverage
FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.

FY2026 award categories

  • Internal Medicine

FY2026 award records by amount

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

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Ruben A. Mesa as a PI.

Wake Forest University Health Sciences
NC
$2.2M
1 grant
UT Health Science Center Houston
TX
$589.6K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Wake Forest University Health Sciences
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2025
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #3110
  6. 2025
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #3110
  7. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  8. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  9. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  10. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

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

Jennifer Lynne Huberty
UT Health Science Center Houston
3
shared awards
Amelie G Ramirez
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Andrew Jacob Brenner
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Chul Soo Ha
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Gail Elizabeth Tomlinson
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
James D Lechleiter
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Lei Zheng
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Matthew John Hart
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Michael T Berton
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards
Ratna K Vadlamudi
UT Health Science Center Houston
2
shared awards

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