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Sanika Samuel Chirwa

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

FY2026 NIH rank #7,837
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  • Rising Star
  • Program Leader
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$2.5M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
1
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#7,837
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$68,3401#53,489
2025$1,366,3491#11,529
2026$2,488,8851#7,837

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20241 record
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY2026 · selected1 record

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 Sanika Samuel Chirwa. 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.

Review metric definitions

FY2026 NIH portfolio memberships

NIMHD

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

$2.5M

1 awards · administering

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

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No compatible author-to-dataset release is published. Dataset records are unavailable, not zero.

Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
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NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 1958737Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD
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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 records by amount

NIH award records listing Sanika Samuel Chirwa as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 5U54MD007586-40U54Contact PI
    The RCMI Program in Health Disparities Research at Meharry Medical College
    Meharry Medical College
    $2.5M
    award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Sanika Samuel Chirwa as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by Meharry Medical College (TN).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Meharry Medical College
  2. 2025
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2025
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  5. 2026
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  6. 2026
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #7837

Shared-award investigators

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

Fernando Villalta
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
James E Hildreth
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Josiah Ochieng
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Jui Pandhare
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Maureen Sanderson
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Samuel Evans Adunyah
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Stephania T. Miller-Hughes
Meharry Medical College
3
shared awards
Aize Cao
Meharry Medical College
1
shared award

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