NIH K01 Grants — Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award

Recent K01 awards from NIH RePORTER

Examples of funded K01 projects across the last two fiscal years. The matching-award count comes from the full result set; funding totals, averages, rankings, and examples use the first 500 records returned by NIH RePORTER. Figures reflect a snapshot last refreshed on September 5, 2026.

Example K01 projects from the sample

• Economic precarity, costs, and continuity of mental health care

  4K01MH137318-02
  Catherine Ettman · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD · $544,458 · awarded Aug 28, 2026 · NIH

  Catherine Ettman, PhD, is an early career mental health services researcher. Her long-term career objective is to become an independent investigator and national expert on the role of different assets in shaping mental health and mental health services utilization. Research Context: Depression is common, costly, and its burden is felt unevenly. Treatment…

• From Data to Delivery: Harnessing Implementation Science to Adapt Tuberculosis and HIV Care to Extreme Weather Events

  1K01AI203587-01
  CANICE CHRISTIAN · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA · $200,880 · awarded Aug 25, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY Extreme heat and drought threaten progress in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV control by exacerbating food insecurity, disrupting health systems, and creating new barriers to care for already vulnerable populations. People living with HIV and those at risk for TB are disproportionately affected by these environmental-related stressors,…

• Implementing breast cancer early detection measures in primary healthcare facilities in Botswana

  3K01CA301031-01A1S1
  Tara Friebel-Klingner · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, NJ · $26,431 · awarded Aug 24, 2026 · NIH

  Abstract Project Summary Globally, breast cancer is the most common cancer with over 2.3 million new cases and 660,000 deaths in 2022. Botswana, a low-resource country in sub-Saharan Africa, has a high burden of breast cancer mortality that can be attributed, in part, to late-stage diagnosis and barriers in accessing care. Cancer mortality can be decreased…

• Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Latinas via Interactive Web-Based Technology

  5K01HL159044-05
  Tanya Benitez · BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI · $146,770 · awarded Aug 21, 2026 · NIH

  Project Summary/Abstract Physical inactivity and poor diet quality, including low fruit and vegetable consumption and high sugar- sweetened beverages, have been linked with diabetes, overweight/obesity and numerous chronic health conditions. For Latina women in the U.S., the disproportionately low physical activity (PA) levels and unhealthy dietary habits…

• Outcomes for Children with Asthma on Medicaid: Elucidating Key Determinants at the Policy, Plan, Neighborhood, and Person Levels to Address Disparities

  5K01HL163457-05
  Anna Chorniy · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI, NY · $167,614 · awarded Aug 19, 2026 · NIH

  : Asthma, a chronic condition that affects over five million US children, is more prevalent among children on public health insurance programs. Despite advances in asthma treatment, asthma clinical care and mortality rates in children have plateaued, and disparities persist across racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups. I propose a training and research…

• Refining and Pilot Testing a Decision Support Intervention to Facilitate Adoption of Evidence-Based Programs to Improve Parent and Child Mental Health

  5K01MH128761-05
  Gracelyn Cruden · CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., IL · $149,191 · awarded Aug 19, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY Over 268,000 children entered foster care in the United States during fiscal year 2019 despite the existence of evidence-based programs (EBPs) that can successfully prevent child maltreatment. Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) can lead to the adoption of EBPs that are likely to be successfully implemented and result in the intended…

• Leveraging Implementation Science and Design Methods to Sustain Community-Based Mental Health Services for Refugees

  5K01MH128524-05
  Mary Bunn · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, IL · $187,096 · awarded Aug 18, 2026 · NIH

  There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of refugees worldwide, with approximately 26 million men, women and children forcibly displaced from their homes at the end of 2019. More than half of the world’s refugees live in dense urban areas or refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries. A smaller percentage are permanently resettled in…

• Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an HIV Prevention Intervention for Older Black Women

  5K01AG092253-02
  Laneshia Conner · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, KY · $126,015 · awarded Aug 18, 2026 · NIH

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Older Black women continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV, making up less than 15% of the female population yet accounting for half of new HIV infections in women in the United States. Older Black women are not concerned with pregnancy prevention and are less likely to use condoms which exposes them to contracting HIV. Also,…

• Implementation of mental illness anti-stigma research evidence in the school system to promote help-seeking using a pilot hybrid type III trial with adaptive randomization and digital dissemination

  5K01MH137374-03
  Melissa DuPont · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES, NY · $179,680 · awarded Aug 18, 2026 · NIH

  In the United States (U.S.), less than 50% of adolescents with a mental illness receive care, resulting in enduring negative effects on health and well-being. Moreover, mental health burden is growing among adolescents in the U.S. Unmet mental health treatment need persists after accounting for symptom severity and insurance and economic factors, suggesting…

• Implementation science to optimize HIV prevention and substance use services among men who have sex with men in the US

  5K01DA063441-02
  Kaitlyn Atkins · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD · $172,478 · awarded Aug 14, 2026 · NIH

  This five-year K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award will provide training and mentored research to move Dr. Atkins from her observational research portfolio to a research program designing and evaluating tailored strategies to address HIV and drug use among key populations, with a focus on men who have sex with men (MSM). The award centers…

• The Effect of the Home Environment on Health and Wellbeing of Low-income Older Adults

  5K01AG083059-03
  Amir Baniassadi · HEBREW REHABILITATION CENTER FOR AGED, MA · $124,875 · awarded Aug 14, 2026 · NIH

  Each year, millions of low-income older adults experience the adverse effects of heat exposure inside their home on their health and well-being. There is therefore an urgent need to study the effects of the summertime home thermal environment on the health and wellbeing of low-income older adults. We recently developed a platform for continuous measurements…

• Surveillance and Risk Prioritization of Bat-Borne Paramyxoviruses

  1K01AI201805-01
  Cassie Bonavita · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS, CA · $205,956 · awarded Aug 14, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Emerging zoonotic viruses pose an increasing threat to human and animal health, yet our ability to forecast which viruses are most likely to spill over remains limited. Most prioritization frameworks rely heavily on expert opinion and epidemiological risk factors, while lacking empirical viral trait data that directly influence…

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