ScienceDex / Researcher record
Xiankai Sun
- UT Southwestern Medical Center · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
From the FY2026 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.
FY2026 NIH rank #1,076
- Program Leader
- R01 Holder
- Top 10% Funded
- Multi-Institutional
- Early Career
- Diverse Portfolio
NIH Funding · FY2026
Award-linked funding history
Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.
Linked awards ($M)Award-linked rank
View yearly values
| Fiscal year | Linked awards | Records | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,015,620 | 3 | #16,165 |
| 2026 | $8,852,272 | 5 | #1,076 |
Award activity
Awards through the years
NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.
- FY20253 records
- FY2026 · selected5 records
Each bar starts at zero. Annual records can include renewals of the same project; they are not a count of distinct career grants.
Publications
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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
- Profile ID 8251713Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
- ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-6110Verified identifier for this researcher
- ScienceDex PI coverage
- FY2025 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
- Internal Medicine
- ENGINEERING (ALL TYPES)
- Biomedical Engineering
- Urology
FY2026 award records by amount
NIH award records listing Xiankai Sun as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.
- 2P30CA142543-16P30Contact PIUT Southwestern Medical Center Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CenterUT Southwestern Medical Center · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)$4.4Maward amount
- 5P50CA196516-10P50Contact PIUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center SPORE in Kidney CancerUT Southwestern Medical Center · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)$2.3Maward amount
- 4R01CA309499-02R01Co-investigatorSCH: Graph-String Transformer and Reinforcement Learning for Design of Cancer TheranosticsBaylor University · Engineering (NIH department code)$900Kaward amount
- 1R01AR087615-01R01Co-investigatorD-Glutamine PET for Early Detection and Precision Treatment of Orthopedic Implant InfectionUniversity of Texas Arlington · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code)$712Kaward amount
- 5R01CA295762-02R01Co-investigatorOvercoming mechanisms of PTPN1 driving therapy- and castration- resistant prostate cancer with novel theranosticsUT Southwestern Medical Center · Urology (NIH department code)$474.9Kaward amount
Award organizations
Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Xiankai Sun as a PI.
Coverage and award-record milestones
Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.
- 2025First NIH AwardUT Southwestern Medical Center
- 2025$500K Cumulative Funding
- 2025$1M Cumulative Funding
- 2025R01 Grant Holder
- 2026$2M Cumulative Funding
- 2026$5M Cumulative Funding
- 2026Entered Top 50% NationallyRanked #1076
- 2026Entered Top 25% NationallyRanked #1076
- 2026Entered Top 10% NationallyRanked #1076
- 2026Multi-Institutional ResearchAwards at 3 institutions
Shared-award investigators
Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Xiankai Sun.
Adam Yopp
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Assal Shoushtari Rahimi
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Bruce Arthur Posner
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Carlos L Arteaga
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Chul W Ahn
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Daniel John Siegwart
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Jeon Lee
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Jerry William Shay
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
Jer-Tsong Hsieh
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards
John D. Minna
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2
shared awards