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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Lsu Health Sciences Center

New Orleans, LA

Funding
$4.5M
$4,475,212
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
19
17 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#43
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Lsu Health Sciences Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Patricia E. Molina

    Leads 3 awards · $2,080,890

    • 5P60AA009803-33Department: NIH department code
      LSUHSC-NO Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center (CARC)

      Principal investigators: David A Welsh (contact PI), Liz Simon (contact PI), Patricia E. Molina (contact PI), Scott Edwards (contact PI), Tekeda F. Ferguson (contact PI)

      $1,424,824
      award amount
    • 5T32AA007577-27Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Alcohol Research Training Program
      $589,425
      award amount
    • 5R13DA026647-17Department: NIH department code
      National Science Network on Drug Abuse Annual Conference
      $66,641
      award amount

  2. Scott Edwards

    Leads 2 awards · $1,602,376

  3. David A Welsh

    Leads 1 award · $1,424,824

  4. Liz Simon

    Leads 1 award · $1,424,824

  5. Tekeda F. Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $1,424,824

  6. Nicholas Warren Gilpin

    Leads 3 awards · $755,333

    • 1R01AA032025-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Reducing alcohol drinking with a nonmuscle myosin II small molecule in development

      Principal investigators: Nicholas Warren Gilpin (contact PI), Courtney A Miller

      $567,832
      award amount
    • 5R21DA062847-02Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a rat model of co-morbid cocaine and alcohol use
      $187,500
      award amount
    • 5R13AA028237-07Department: NIH department code
      Travel Support for the International Drug and Alcohol Research Society (IDARS) Meeting
      $1
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AA032574-01A1, led by Rajani Maiya.

  7. Rajani Maiya

    Leads 2 awards · $731,250

    • 1R21AA032574-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptomic effects of chronic inflammatory pain in alcohol-responsive midbrain cells

      Principal investigators: Rajani Maiya (contact PI), Nicholas Warren Gilpin

      $393,750
      award amount
    • 5R01AA031733-02Department: NIH department code
      Kappa Opioid Receptor modulation of BLA inputs to the BNST and stress-escalated drinking
      $337,500
      award amount

  8. Sydney M Vita

    Leads 1 award · $171,637

    • 5K01AA031516-03Department: NIH department code
      Adolescent alcohol exposure exacerbates rmTBI associated BBB disruption and dementia risk
      $171,637
      award amount

  9. Elizabeth Minor Avegno

    Leads 1 award · $163,617

    • 5K01AA028541-05Department: NIH department code
      Orexin modulation of brain reward-brain stress system interactions in alcohol withdrawal anxiety
      $163,617
      award amount

  10. Kourtney D Weaver

    Leads 1 award · $56,876

    • 5F30AA030909-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunometabolic consequences of alcohol-induced mesenteric lymphatic dyshomeostasis
      $56,876
      award amount

  11. Taylor Fitzpatrick-Schmidt

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AA030941-04Department: NIH department code
      Interactions of Alcohol and Pain in the Context of HIV
      $55,114
      award amount

  12. Eden McMillin Gallegos

    Leads 1 award · $53,876

    • 5F30AA030910-04Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol and calorie-dense diet-mediated hepatic mitochondrial dysregulation
      $53,876
      award amount

  13. Nicholas R Harris

    Leads 1 award · $53,876

    • 5F30AA031632-03Department: NIH department code
      TRAF3IP2 as a Proinflammatory Mediator of Alcohol-related Cardiomyopathy
      $53,876
      award amount

  14. Stephanie Sumin Lee

    Leads 1 award · $53,876

    • 5F30AA031900-03Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol-Cannabinoid System Interactions in the Context of Pain and AUD
      $53,876
      award amount

  15. Kaitlin Couvillion

    Leads 1 award · $41,967

    • 1F30AA033247-01Department: NIH department code
      Immune-Mediated Hepatocyte Injury: Interplay of Alcohol and T Cells
      $41,967
      award amount

  16. Keishla Marie Rodriguez Graciani

    Leads 1 award · $39,674

    • 5F32AA031901-02Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol-mediated mitochondrial adaptations in skeletal muscle: role of Sirtuin1
      $39,674
      award amount

  17. Xavier Ricardo Chapa Dubocq

    Leads 1 award · $39,674

    • 5F32AA031902-02Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol Impact on Traumatic Brain Injury: Focus on Mitochondrial Alterations
      $39,674
      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.

  • Courtney A Miller

    Co-investigator on 1R01AA032025-01A1, led by Nicholas Warren Gilpin

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Amanda Rosemary Pahng

    Co-investigator on 5R21DA062823-02, led by Scott Edwards

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.