Samuel Lai

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pharmacology (NIH department code)

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

FY2026 NIH rank #10,794

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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

Pharmacology

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount

$1.9M

Full award amounts, FY2026

Award Records

Records listing this PI

Award-Linked Rank

#10,794

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 Samuel Lai as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

1R01AI193619-01A1R01Contact PI
Antibody-based approaches to limit PIV3 infection and disease in a human lung model
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pharmacology (NIH department code)
$757K
award amount
5R01AI165853-05R01Contact PI
Engineered “muco-trapping” antibodies for inhaled therapy of parainfluenza and human metapneumovirus infections
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pharmacology (NIH department code)
$535.1K
award amount
1R21AI197116-01R21Contact PI
Phage-mediated in situ reprogramming of the complex human IBD gut microbiome for suppressing chronic inflammation in murine experimental colitis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pharmacology (NIH department code)
$427.6K
award amount
5R21AI185808-02R21Contact PI
Engineering non-replicating self-recirculating phages as platform for gene therapy of the microbiome
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pharmacology (NIH department code)
$194.4K
award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Samuel Lai as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

2024
First NIH Award
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2024
$500K Cumulative Funding
2024
$1M Cumulative Funding
2024
Entered Top 50% Nationally
Ranked #6701
2025
$2M Cumulative Funding
2025
$5M Cumulative Funding
2025
Entered Top 25% Nationally
Ranked #2150
2025
R01 Grant Holder

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Samuel Lai.

Raymond J Pickles

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

shared awards

Marc Michael Baum

Oak Crest Institute of Science

shared award

Ryan B Sartor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

shared award

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