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Zhen Zhao

From the FY2025 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2026 NIH rank #2,610
Unclaimed recordClaim profile
  • R01 Holder
  • Translational
  • Multi-Institutional
  • Early Career

NIH Funding · FY2026

Linked Award Amount
$5.2M
Full award amounts, FY2026
Award Records
3
Records listing this PI
Award-Linked Rank
#2,610
By linked amount among FY2026 PIs
Earliest Year Loaded
2025
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
2025$3,095,2966#3,237
2026$5,243,5373#2,610

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

  1. FY20256 records
  2. FY2026 · selected3 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 Zhen Zhao. 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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FY2026 NIH portfolio memberships

NIA

National Institute on Aging

$4.6M

2 awards · administering

NINDS

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

$643.3K

1 awards · administering

Researcher-associated datasets About this stat →

These datasets are linked to this researcher's ShareScore identity. This does not by itself prove that an NIH portfolio funded each dataset.

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 80502062Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD
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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

  • Physiology
  • Internal Medicine

FY2026 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Zhen Zhao as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

  • 4R01AG089640-03R01Co-investigator
    ERAD-STING Crosstalk in Microglia: Unraveling the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
    University of Virginia · Physiology (NIH department code)
    $2.4M
    award amount
  • 4R01AG089756-03R01Co-investigator
    Understanding Neural Bases for Neuropsychiatric Impairments in Alzheimer's Disease Models
    University of Southern California · Physiology (NIH department code)
    $2.2M
    award amount
  • 1R01NS152423-01R01Co-investigator
    Brain Pericytes in Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
    Loma Linda University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
    $643.3K
    award amount

Award organizations

Organizations that administered FY2026 awards listing Zhen Zhao as a PI.

University of Virginia
VA
$2.4M
1 grant
University of Southern California
CA
$2.2M
1 grant
Loma Linda University
CA
$643.3K
1 grant

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

  1. 2025
    First NIH Award
    University of Virginia
  2. 2025
    $500K Cumulative Funding
  3. 2025
    $1M Cumulative Funding
  4. 2025
    $2M Cumulative Funding
  5. 2025
    Entered Top 50% Nationally
    Ranked #3237
  6. 2025
    Entered Top 25% Nationally
    Ranked #3237
  7. 2025
    R01 Grant Holder
  8. 2026
    $5M Cumulative Funding
  9. 2026
    Multi-Institutional Research
    Awards at 3 institutions

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Zhen Zhao.

Huizhong Whit Tao
University of Southern California
2
shared awards
Ling Qi
University of Virginia
2
shared awards
Andy Y Shih
Seattle Children's Hospital
1
shared award
Qingyi Ma
Loma Linda University
1
shared award

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