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Stephen Y Lai

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

FY2026 NIH rank #1,073
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Rising Star
  • Program Leader
  • R01 Holder
  • Top 10% Funded
  • Early Career
  • Mentor

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$8.9M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
7
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#1,073
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$2,522,6017#3,561
2025$5,105,2779#1,350
2026$8,862,3687#1,073

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20247 records
  2. FY20259 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 Stephen Y Lai. 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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FY2027 NIH portfolio memberships

No institute-level portfolio release is available for this scientist and fiscal year yet. Existing award history remains unchanged above.

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
Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
NIH RePORTER identity
Profile ID 1880052Search 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 categories

  • Surgery
  • Radiology

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Stephen Y Lai as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 1P01CA314921-01P01Contact PI
    ImpACT: Improving Treatment Strategies for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Through Integration of Novel Therapies and Assessment of Tumor Response
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $2.7M
    award amount
  • 5P01CA278716-02P01Contact PI
    InHANCE: Imaging Innovation for Head And Neck Cancer Evaluation & Treatment Delivery
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    $2.3M
    award amount
  • 5P01CA285249-03P01Contact PI
    OPC SURVIVOR: Optimizing OroPharyngeal Cancer SURVIVORship
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $2.3M
    award amount
  • 5U01DE032168-04U01Contact PI
    Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Prospective Validation of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI as a Metric of Orodental Injury After Radiotherapy (QI-ProVE-MRI)
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $704.8K
    award amount
  • 5R01DE032521-04R01Contact PI
    Development of miR-27a* for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Surgery (NIH department code)
    $643.1K
    award amount
  • 5T32CA261856-05T32Co-investigator
    Image Guided Cancer Therapy Training Program
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Radiology (NIH department code)
    $93.2K
    award amount
  • 3P01CA278716-02S1P01Co-investigator
    InHANCE: Imaging Innovation for Head And Neck Cancer Evaluation & Treatment Delivery
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    $64.6K
    award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Stephen Y Lai as a PI.

FY2026 award administered by UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (TX).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #3561
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #3561
  7. 2025
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  8. 2025
    Entered Top 10% Nationally
    Ranked #1350
  9. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  10. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader
  11. 2026
    $10M Cumulative Funding

Shared-award investigators

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

Clifton David Fuller
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
13
shared awards
Kristy Brock
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
9
shared awards
Katherine Arnold Hutcheson
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
7
shared awards
Vlad C Sandulache
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
4
shared awards
Amy Catherine Moreno
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
3
shared awards
Carly E. A. Barbon
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
3
shared awards
Flordeliza S Villanueva
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
3
shared awards
James A Bankson
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
3
shared awards
Steven Jay Frank
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
3
shared awards
Abdullah Ali Osman
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
2
shared awards

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