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Thomas W Buford

From the FY2024 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2024 NIH rank #4,987
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • Program Leader
  • Early Career
  • Mentor
  • Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2024

Linked Award Amount
$2.1M
Full award amounts, FY2024
Award Records
7
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#4,987
By linked amount among FY2024 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$2,078,0957#4,987
2025$232,3371#44,583
2026$1,367,1672#14,981

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY2024 · selected7 records
  2. FY20251 record
  3. FY20262 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 Thomas W Buford. 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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FY2024 NIH portfolio memberships

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

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation
Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
NIH RePORTER identity
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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

  • Anatomy & Cell Biology
  • Internal Medicine
  • BIOLOGY

FY2024 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Thomas W Buford as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2024 awards listing Thomas W Buford as a PI.

Ball State University
IN
$1.1M
1 grant
University of Alabama at Birmingham
AL
$978.1K
6 grants

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2024
    First NIH Award
    Ball State University
  2. 2024
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2024
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2024
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2024
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #4987
  6. 2024
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #4987
  7. 2025
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 2 institutions
  8. 2025
    Program/Center Grant Leader

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Thomas W Buford.

Steven N. Austad
University of Alabama at Birmingham
6
shared awards
Daniel L Smith
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3
shared awards
David B Allison
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3
shared awards
Jianhua Zhang
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3
shared awards
John L Hartman
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3
shared awards
Anna E. Thalacker-Mercer
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1
shared award
Bret H Goodpaster
Ball State University
1
shared award
James Rimmer
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1
shared award
Lori Lynn McMahon
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1
shared award
Scott Trappe
Ball State University
1
shared award

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