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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Funding
$56.6M
$56,624,592
Awards
104
FY2025 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
106
75 lead a grant here, 31 co-investigators
Department rank
#27
of 115 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Internal Medicine row of the Baylor College of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

75 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Fasiha Kanwal

    Leads 4 awards · $7,570,256

    • 5UM1TR004539-02Department: NIH department code
      Consortium for Translational and Precision Health

      Principal investigators: Fasiha Kanwal (contact PI), Bettina M. Beech

      $5,699,974
      award amount
    • 5R01CA256977-05Department: NIH department code
      Multi-level Evaluation of Racial/ethnic Disparities in Liver Disease Outcomes

      Principal investigators: Fasiha Kanwal (contact PI), Amit Singal

      $867,274
      award amount
    • 5U01CA230997-08Department: NIH department code
      Risk Stratification for and Early Detection of Liver Cancer

      Principal investigators: Fasiha Kanwal (contact PI), Eugene J Koay, Hashem B El-Serag, Jagpreet Chhatwal

      $798,777
      award amount
    • 2T32DK083266-16Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in Gastroenterology

      Principal investigators: Fasiha Kanwal (contact PI), Hashem B El-Serag

      $204,231
      award amount

  2. Indira U Mysorekar

    Leads 2 awards · $3,457,497

    • 1R01DK144139-01Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS OF AGE-and SEX- DEPENDENT CHANGES IN URINARY BLADDER IMMUNITY
      $3,005,541
      award amount
    • 1R21AI194017-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring T. pallidum Pathogenesis in the Placenta Using Novel In Vitro Models of Syphilis During Pregnancy
      $451,956
      award amount

  3. Na Li

    Leads 5 awards · $2,005,629

    • 5R01HL163277-04Department: NIH department code
      Cardiac fibroblast inflammasome and atrial myopathy
      $699,727
      award amount
    • 5R01HL136389-08Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Gasdermin-D/Interleukin-1 Nexus in Atrial Arrhythmogenesis
      $663,855
      award amount
    • 5R01HL164838-02Department: NIH department code
      FKBP5 AND CARDIAC ARRHYTHMOGENESIS
      $495,545
      award amount
    • 3R01HL164838-02S1Department: NIH department code
      FKBP5 AND CARDIAC ARRHYTHMOGENESIS
      $98,915
      award amount
    • 3R01HL136389-08S1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Gasdermin-D/Interleukin-1 Nexus in Atrial Arrhythmogenesis
      $47,587
      award amount

  4. Kristina Walker Whitworth

    Leads 2 awards · $1,944,110

  5. Yong Li

    Leads 3 awards · $1,931,611

    • 1R01CA289250-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PD-L1 MODIFICATIONS IN CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
      $678,723
      award amount
    • 5R01CA271546-03Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting a Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Driver Using AI
      $656,085
      award amount
    • 5R01CA278089-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Syngeneic Mouse Models to Target Mutant p53
      $596,803
      award amount

  6. Joshua M Shulman

    Leads 1 award · $1,557,889

  7. Bing Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,521,869

    • 5U24CA271076-04Department: NIH department code
      iPGDAC, An Integrative Proteogenomic Data Analysis Center for CPTAC
      $881,719
      award amount
    • 3U24CA271076-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Translating Pediatric Cancer Proteogenomic Data into Biological and Clinical Insights
      $640,150
      award amount

  8. Sharmila Anandasabapathy

    Leads 4 awards · $1,520,635

    • 5R01CA232890-07Department: NIH department code
      The Effectiveness of Automated Multimodal Imaging in High Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions (HSIL) Diagnosis for People Living with HIV: An International Trial

      Principal investigators: Sharmila Anandasabapathy (contact PI), Elizabeth Y. Chiao

      $942,063
      award amount
    • 5R01CA181275-09Department: NIH department code
      AI-Assisted Microendoscopy for the Early Detection of Esophageal Cancer
      $533,572
      award amount
    • 3R01CA181275-09S1Department: NIH department code
      AI-Assisted Microendoscopy for the Early Detection of Esophageal Cancer
      $24,000
      award amount
    • 3R01CA181275-09S2Department: NIH department code
      AI-Assisted Microendoscopy for the Early Detection of Esophageal Cancer
      $21,000
      award amount

  9. Xinchun Pi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,234,791

    • 5R01HL169297-02Department: NIH department code
      The pathophysiology of vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension

      Principal investigators: Xinchun Pi (contact PI), Lavannya M. Pandit

      $759,868
      award amount
    • 5R01DK123186-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic crosstalk through vascular endothelium-secreted factors
      $474,923
      award amount

  10. Xiang Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $1,230,080

    • 3P50CA186784-10S1Department: NIH department code
      Translational Research in Breast Cancer
      $1,230,080
      award amount

  11. Jason C Mills

    Leads 2 awards · $1,182,571

    • 5R01DK105129-11Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS OF CHIEF CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION
      $639,566
      award amount
    • 5R01DK094989-14Department: NIH department code
      REGULATION OF ATROPHY-INDUCED PROGENITOR CELLS IN THE GASTRIC CORPUS
      $543,005
      award amount

  12. Hana M El Sahly

    Leads 2 awards · $1,172,687

    • 5UM1AI148575-06Department: NIH department code
      Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU)
      $1,085,867
      award amount
    • 3UM1AI148575-06S1Department: NIH department code
      Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU) 24-0003
      $86,820
      award amount

  13. Sean Hartig

    Leads 2 awards · $1,140,336

    • 5R01DK138018-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular regulation of leptin bioavailability
      $642,578
      award amount
    • 5R01DK114356-09Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Impacts of Type II Interferon Signals in Obesity
      $497,758
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK139397-02, led by Huaizhu Wu.

  14. Farrah Kheradmand

    Leads 2 awards · $1,100,637

    • 1R01HL177930-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Detrimental Effects of B-Cell-Th17 Axis in Antiviral Immunity in Smokers.

      Principal investigators: Farrah Kheradmand (contact PI), Francesca Polverino

      $799,998
      award amount
    • 5T32HL170991-02Department: NIH department code
      BCM-Respiratory Research Training

      Principal investigators: Farrah Kheradmand (contact PI), Ivan O. Rosas

      $300,639
      award amount

  15. Huaizhu Wu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,063,924

    • 5R01DK139397-02Department: NIH department code
      MICRORNA REGULATION OF ADIPOSE TISSUE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN OBESITY

      Principal investigators: Huaizhu Wu (contact PI), Sean Hartig

      $669,251
      award amount
    • 5R01AG065197-04Department: NIH department code
      Inflammation and insulin resistance in aging
      $394,673
      award amount

  16. Rolando E Rumbaut

    Leads 2 awards · $1,062,680

  17. Zheng Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,031,752

    • 5R01AG069966-03Department: NIH department code
      Circadian clock gene Rev-erb in memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease
      $559,304
      award amount
    • 5R01ES034768-03Department: NIH department code
      Inter- and transgenerational effects of paternal arsenic exposure
      $472,448
      award amount

  18. Hardeep Singh

    Leads 1 award · $999,698

    • 5R18HS029347-04Department: NIH department code
      Diagnostic Safety Center for Advancing E-triggers and Rapid Feedback Implementation (DISCOVERI)
      $999,698
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HS028595-04, led by Daniel R Murphy.

  19. Salma Kaochar

    Leads 1 award · $969,204

    • 4R01CA251560-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer via Potent Inhibition of Signaling Lipids
      $969,204
      award amount

  20. Ru Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $944,873

    • 5R01CA276173-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of gut microbiota in colitis-associated colorectal cancer

      Principal investigators: Ru Chen (contact PI), Sheng Pan

      $615,878
      award amount
    • 4UH3CA292130-02Department: NIH department code
      BLOOD-BASED PROTEOMIC ASSAY FOR PANCREATIC CANCER DETECTION

      Principal investigators: Ru Chen (contact PI), Sheng Pan

      $328,995
      award amount

  21. Ang Li

    Leads 2 awards · $896,495

    • 1R01HL180402-01Department: NIH department code
      Multi-modal dynamic risk prediction of thrombosis and bleeding in patients with cancer
      $721,826
      award amount
    • 5K23HL159271-04Department: NIH department code
      Epidemiology and Biomarkers in Transplant Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TA-TMA): A Prospective Validation Cohort Study
      $174,669
      award amount

  22. Bich Ngoc Dang

    Leads 1 award · $788,167

    • 5R01MH134749-02Department: NIH department code
      Engaging communities to develop and evaluate communication strategies for HIV prevention among women in the Southern US
      $788,167
      award amount

  23. Rajagopal Viswanath Sekhar

    Leads 1 award · $785,596

    • 5R01AG068260-05Department: NIH department code
      Glutathione, Brain Metabolism and Inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Rajagopal Viswanath Sekhar (contact PI), Joseph C Masdeu

      $785,596
      award amount

  24. Thomas P Giordano

    Leads 1 award · $760,645

    • 5R01DA059394-03Department: NIH department code
      Wastewater Sampling: A New Tool to Accelerate Ending the HIV Epidemic
      $760,645
      award amount

  25. Weei-Chin Lin

    Leads 2 awards · $748,469

    • 5R01CA203824-09Department: NIH department code
      Novel therapeutics for targeting checkpoint dysfunction in cancer

      Principal investigators: Weei-Chin Lin (contact PI), Fang-Tsyr Lin

      $382,469
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269971-03Department: NIH department code
      14-3-3tau drives estrogen receptor loss and breast cancer progression

      Principal investigators: Weei-Chin Lin (contact PI), Fang-Tsyr Lin

      $366,000
      award amount

  26. Yanhong Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $733,786

    • 5R01CA285882-02Department: NIH department code
      Intratumoral microbiota and immune predictors of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer

      Principal investigators: Yanhong Liu (contact PI), David C Christiani, Matthew B. Schabath

      $653,786
      award amount
    • 5R03CA282953-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying germline pathogenic variants in familial lung cancer among African-Americans
      $80,000
      award amount

  27. Francesca Polverino

    Leads 1 award · $696,100

    • 5R01HL171622-02Department: NIH department code
      Protective effects of metformin against cigarette smoke-induced lung pathologies via regulation of fatty acids metabolism
      $696,100
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL177930-01A1, led by Farrah Kheradmand.

  28. Gloria Vittone Echeverria

    Leads 2 awards · $650,936

    • 5R37CA269783-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic adaptation in residual triple negative breast cancer following chemotherapy
      $410,936
      award amount
    • 3R37CA269783-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic adaptation in residual triple negative breast cancer following chemotherapy
      $240,000
      award amount

  29. Pavan Reddy

    Leads 1 award · $636,920

    • 5R01AI165563-05Department: NIH department code
      Intestinal tissue intrinsic mechanisms in regulation of GI GVHD
      $636,920
      award amount

  30. Xiao Li

    Leads 1 award · $627,077

    • 7R01HL179012-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Senescent Macrophages to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes
      $627,077
      award amount

  31. Mark A Herman

    Leads 1 award · $626,429

    • 1R01DK143601-01Department: NIH department code
      ChREBP in Liver Metabolism: Defining Mechanisms and Resolving Controversies
      $626,429
      award amount

  32. Mihail Gabriel Chelu

    Leads 1 award · $609,071

    • 5R01HL166832-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Lamin A/C-mediated Cardiac Conduction Disorders
      $609,071
      award amount

  33. Konstantin Tsoyi

    Leads 1 award · $596,179

    • 1R01HL176934-01Department: NIH department code
      Macropinocytosis and Pulmonary Fibrosis
      $596,179
      award amount

  34. Bruna Corradetti

    Leads 1 award · $582,640

  35. Antony Rodriguez

    Leads 1 award · $525,512

    • 5R01HL167814-03Department: NIH department code
      Delineating the role of let-7 microRNA on lung AT2 cell homeostasis, alveolar regeneration, and interstitial lung disease
      $525,512
      award amount

  36. Kevin Erickson

    Leads 1 award · $519,397

    • 5R01DK128209-05Department: NIH department code
      The Effects Of Telemedicine on Health Outcomes, Costs, and Perceptions of Care Delivery in In-Center Hemodialysis
      $519,397
      award amount

  37. Sandeep K Agarwal

    Leads 1 award · $489,729

    • 5R01AR082635-02Department: NIH department code
      UNDERSTANDING CADHERIN-11 IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND TREATMENT OF LUNG FIBROSIS
      $489,729
      award amount

  38. Kristin Marie Kostick

    Leads 1 award · $486,223

  39. Dongyin Guan

    Leads 1 award · $483,077

    • 1R37CA296577-01Department: NIH department code
      3D Circadian Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Mediated by ESRRG in NAFLD-to-HCC Progression
      $483,077
      award amount

  40. Barbara Wells Trautner

    Leads 1 award · $466,159

    • 5R18HS028776-04Department: NIH department code
      A Cluster Randomized Trial of Two Implementation Strategies to Disseminate a Successful Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention
      $466,159
      award amount

  41. Liang Xie

    Leads 1 award · $465,296

    • 5R01HL166549-03Department: NIH department code
      Explore the roles of intercellular communication in cardiomyocyte proliferation and renewal.
      $465,296
      award amount

  42. Chao Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $450,696

    • 5R01CA269764-03Department: NIH department code
      An innovative integrated computational framework using gene signatures for patient stratification
      $450,696
      award amount

  43. Katy Patras

    Leads 1 award · $433,277

    • 5R01DK128053-05Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of immune modulation, metabolism, and microbiota to Group B Streptococcal urinary tract infection
      $433,277
      award amount

  44. K. Vinod Vijayan

    Leads 1 award · $420,583

    • 5R01CA247917-04Department: NIH department code
      Platelet Serine/Threonine Phosphatases in Cancer Pathophysiology
      $420,583
      award amount

  45. Jamie N. Anastas

    Leads 1 award · $419,551

    • 5R01NS129860-03Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS OF POL II ELONGATION IN DIFFUSE MIDLINE GLIOMA
      $419,551
      award amount

  46. Ivan P Gorlov

    Leads 1 award · $411,404

    • 1R21CA291676-01A1Department: NIH department code
      GENES WITH SIGNIFICANT DEFICIT OF LOSS-OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS IN LUNG TUMOR
      $411,404
      award amount

  47. Daniel R Murphy

    Leads 1 award · $399,999

    • 5R01HS028595-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing e-Triggers to Detect Telemedicine Related Diagnostic Safety Events

      Principal investigators: Daniel R Murphy (contact PI), Hardeep Singh

      $399,999
      award amount

  48. Amy L McGuire

    Leads 1 award · $397,000

    • 5R01ES036232-02Department: NIH department code
      Engaging community Members to Plan for dissemination Of Wastewater Epidemiology Results (The EMPOWER Study)

      Principal investigators: Amy L McGuire (contact PI), Jennifer Leigh Deegan

      $397,000
      award amount

  49. Andrea Bradford

    Leads 1 award · $376,174

    • 5R01HS029318-02Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of Calibrate Dx: A Resource to Improve Diagnostic Decisions in the Hospital Setting
      $376,174
      award amount

  50. Aaron Peter Thrift

    Leads 1 award · $366,000

    • 5R01CA274528-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in African Americans
      $366,000
      award amount

  51. Bingning Dong

    Leads 1 award · $366,000

    • 5R37CA262143-05Department: NIH department code
      Lipid Metabolism in Liver Cancer
      $366,000
      award amount

  52. Nancy P Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $364,136

    • 5R25GM142019-05Department: NIH department code
      Authentic Literacy and Language (ALL) for Science
      $364,136
      award amount

  53. Zhaoyong Hu

    Leads 1 award · $348,000

    • 5R01DK037175-37Department: NIH department code
      Protein Nutrition in Experimental Uremia
      $348,000
      award amount

  54. Suzanne Aw Fuqua

    Leads 1 award · $342,000

    • 5R01CA072038-24Department: NIH department code
      Replication Stress and DNA Damage Response Drives ESR1 Mutant Metastasis
      $342,000
      award amount

  55. Ashok Balasubramanyam

    Leads 2 awards · $336,988

  56. Cheryl L. Walker

    Leads 1 award · $320,816

    • 5T32ES027801-07Department: NIH department code
      Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences
      $320,816
      award amount

  57. Nirmal S Sharma

    Leads 1 award · $282,267

    • 7R01HL161620-05Department: NIH department code
      Microbial Dysbiosis in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
      $282,267
      award amount

  58. Shixia Huang

    Leads 1 award · $269,855

    • 5R25GM154361-02Department: NIH department code
      Biotechnology Incubator for Teachers (BRITE)
      $269,855
      award amount

  59. Mary Kathryn McKenna

    Leads 1 award · $248,962

    • 1S10OD036406-01A1Department: NIH department code
      CAGT Shared Instrumentation Grant: IncuCyte SX5 Imaging System
      $248,962
      award amount

  60. Helen E Heslop

    Leads 1 award · $230,545

    • 5UG1HL108945-15Department: NIH department code
      BMT CTN Core: Baylor College of Medicine Consortium

      Principal investigators: Helen E Heslop (contact PI), Catherine M. Bollard

      $230,545
      award amount

  61. Tianshi David Wu

    Leads 1 award · $207,087

    • 5K23HL151669-05Department: NIH department code
      Insulin Resistance, Pre-Diabetes, and Diabetes in Obesity-Associated Asthma
      $207,087
      award amount

  62. Mimi Chang Tan

    Leads 1 award · $198,074

    • 5K23DK129776-04Department: NIH department code
      Development and Validation of an Automated Algorithm for Real-time Detection of Neoplasia in Barrett's Esophagus using a Low-cost, Portable Microendoscope
      $198,074
      award amount

  63. Layla A Abushamat

    Leads 1 award · $194,497

    • 5K23DK140641-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and consequences of erythritol and erythronate excess in cardiometabolic disease
      $194,497
      award amount

  64. Paul Nicholls

    Leads 1 award · $185,580

    • 5K08AI173452-02Department: NIH department code
      Interactions and mechanisms of bacteriophages and antibiotics in phage cocktails
      $185,580
      award amount

  65. Maya Balakrishnan

    Leads 1 award · $172,741

    • 5K23MD016955-04Department: NIH department code
      Improving Outcomes Among Mexican and Central-American Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
      $172,741
      award amount

  66. Aladin M Boriek

    Leads 1 award · $165,462

  67. Chao He

    Leads 1 award · $164,376

    • 7K08HL163406-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosignaling regulates macrophage immunometabolism
      $164,376
      award amount

  68. Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

    Leads 1 award · $161,294

    • 5K01HG013112-03Department: NIH department code
      Implementation of an impact assessment tool to optimize responsible stewardship of genomic data in the cloud
      $161,294
      award amount

  69. Rafael Tomoya Michita

    Leads 1 award · $156,744

    • 1K99AI194972-01Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Tunneling Nanotubes and Mitochondrial programming in HIV-Associated Placental Dysfunction
      $156,744
      award amount

  70. Lynn Bimler

    Leads 1 award · $129,032

    • 5K01AG083219-03Department: NIH department code
      Chronic Murine Cerebral Mycosis: Pathogenesis, Neuroimmune Response, and Relevance to Alzheimer's Disease
      $129,032
      award amount

  71. Sankar Dass Navaneethan

    Leads 1 award · $117,491

    • 5K24HL161414-04Department: NIH department code
      MENTORED PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH TOWARDS OPTIMIZING CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
      $117,491
      award amount

  72. Wyatt G Paltzer

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32HL182110-01Department: NIH department code
      A Yap to Notch Transcriptional Activity Transition Governs Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Maturation
      $75,052
      award amount

  73. Charlotte Helena Rivas

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31CA281063-02Department: NIH department code
      Unveiling how the molecular landscape of TNBC sculps intratumoral macrophage origin and function
      $49,538
      award amount

  74. Evelyn De Groot

    Leads 1 award · $46,738

    • 1F31DK142389-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PUTATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE LIPOGENIC ENZYME ASPARTOACYLASE IN THE INTESTINE
      $46,738
      award amount

  75. Hoda J. Badr

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R01CA258040-05Department: NIH department code
      OPTIMISE: A Shared Care Approach for Improving Comprehensive Care of Cancer Patients with Comorbidities in A Safety-Net System

      Principal investigators: Hoda J. Badr (contact PI), Martha P Mims

      $1
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.