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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

Funding
$37.1M
$37,113,439
Awards
38
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
55
29 lead a grant here, 26 co-investigators
Department rank
#43
of 133 · 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 Medical College of Wisconsin page.

Leads a grant in this department

29 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. Bronwen Shaw

    Leads 1 award · $7,515,416

    • 5U24CA076518-29Department: NIH department code
      A Data Resource for Blood and Marrow Transplants and Adoptive Cellular Therapy Research

      Principal investigators: Bronwen Shaw (contact PI), Amy M Moskop

      $7,515,416
      award amount
  2. Mehdi Hussain Hamadani

    Leads 1 award · $7,335,388

    Also a principal investigator on 2UG1CA233198-07, led by Stuart J Wong.

  3. Mary Eapen

    Leads 1 award · $4,805,861

    • 4OT3HL147741-02Department: NIH department code
      Cure Sickle Cell

      Principal investigators: Mary Eapen (contact PI), Mary Maresca Horowitz

      $4,805,861
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R38HL167238-04, led by Michael E Widlansky.

  4. Ze Zheng

    Leads 3 awards · $2,023,648

    • 1R01HL184418-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of tPA in reducing Lp(a) assembly

      Principal investigators: Ze Zheng (contact PI), Gissette Reyes-Soffer

      $812,747
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174609-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of LDL in hemostasis

      Principal investigators: Ze Zheng (contact PI), Lynn Marie Malec

      $701,402
      award amount
    • 5R01HL163516-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of hepatocyte tPA in hepatic VLDL production.
      $509,499
      award amount
  5. Melinda R Stolley

    Leads 3 awards · $1,625,688

  6. William R. Drobyski

    Leads 2 awards · $1,271,368

    • 1R01HL179210-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Augmenting Regulatory T Cell Reconstitution during GVHD

      Principal investigators: William R. Drobyski (contact PI), Anthony Elston Zamora

      $675,405
      award amount
    • 5R01HL126166-15Department: NIH department code
      Inflammatory Cytokine Networks in Gastrointestinal Tract Graft Versus Host Disease
      $595,963
      award amount
  7. Jacquelyn P Kulinski

    Leads 2 awards · $1,217,147

    • 1R34AT013239-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Group singing or solo singing to improve vascular health in older adults with coronary artery disease (GOT VOICE): A Feasibility Study
      $648,000
      award amount
    • 5R01HL162888-04Department: NIH department code
      Stand Up for Your Health: A Randomized Study
      $569,147
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL134643-10, led by Mary G Sorci-Thomas.

  8. Mary G Sorci-Thomas

    Leads 2 awards · $881,152

    • 5R01DK139164-03Department: NIH department code
      Pcpe2 in Adipose Tissue Expansion and Lipoprotein Metabolism
      $655,834
      award amount
    • 5T32HL134643-10Department: NIH department code
      Training in Signature Transdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences

      Principal investigators: Mary G Sorci-Thomas (contact PI), Jacquelyn P Kulinski, Justin L Grobe

      $225,318
      award amount
  9. Michael E Widlansky

    Leads 2 awards · $857,345

    • 5R01HL173778-03Department: NIH department code
      Human Coronary Artery Plaque Transcriptomes and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

      Principal investigators: Michael E Widlansky (contact PI), Mingyu Liang

      $665,481
      award amount
    • 5R38HL167238-04Department: NIH department code
      Medical College of Wisconsin Physician Scientist Immersion Program

      Principal investigators: Michael E Widlansky (contact PI), Mary Eapen

      $191,864
      award amount
  10. Subramaniam Malarkannan

    Leads 1 award · $738,193

  11. Jenifer L Coburn

    Leads 1 award · $711,443

    • 5R01AI169724-05Department: NIH department code
      The roles of Lyme spirochete adhesins in hematogenous dissemination

      Principal investigators: Jenifer L Coburn (contact PI), John M Leong

      $711,443
      award amount
  12. Andreas M Beyer

    Leads 1 award · $683,643

    • 5R01HL173549-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Chemotherapy Induced Microvascular Dysfunction in Cancer Survivors
      $683,643
      award amount
  13. Joni Strom Williams

    Leads 1 award · $678,598

    • 5R01DK135838-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Neighborhood Deprivation on Diabetes Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Study
      $678,598
      award amount
  14. David X. Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $676,961

    • 5R01HL181985-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of polymodal TRP channels in regulation of microvascular endothelial function
      $676,961
      award amount
  15. Kathryn E Flynn

    Leads 1 award · $654,163

    • 5R01CA285925-03Department: NIH department code
      Symptom Monitoring using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Optimize Medication Use (SyMPTOM)

      Principal investigators: Kathryn E Flynn (contact PI), Joan Marie Neuner

      $654,163
      award amount
  16. Stuart J Wong

    Leads 1 award · $651,764

  17. Carol A Everson

    Leads 1 award · $601,313

    • 5R01AG083653-03Department: NIH department code
      Chronic sleep deficiency as a cause of bone loss in aging

      Principal investigators: Carol A Everson (contact PI), Jeffrey Michael Toth

      $601,313
      award amount
  18. Roy L Silverstein

    Leads 1 award · $523,513

    • 5R01HL164460-04Department: NIH department code
      NKA/CD36 signaling in adipocytes promotes oxidative stress and drives chronic inflammation in atherosclerosis

      Principal investigators: Roy L Silverstein (contact PI), Komal Sodhi, Yiliang Chen

      $523,513
      award amount
  19. Ling Mei

    Leads 1 award · $475,963

    • 5R01DK139030-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Improving Fecal Continence Muscles Motor Function in Health and Disease
      $475,963
      award amount
  20. Ann K Rosenthal

    Leads 1 award · $460,379

    • 5R01AG077732-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular pathways of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease

      Principal investigators: Ann K Rosenthal (contact PI), Gabriel Mbalaviele

      $460,379
      award amount
  21. Andrey Sorokin

    Leads 1 award · $441,460

    • 1R21AG094068-01A1Department: NIH department code
      p66Shc in Cerebrovascular Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease

      Principal investigators: Andrey Sorokin (contact PI), Fan Fan

      $441,460
      award amount
  22. Matthew Carl Surdel

    Leads 1 award · $429,000

    • 1R21AI196394-01Department: NIH department code
      The critical journey: the role of clade and an adhesin in Leptospira kidney colonization
      $429,000
      award amount
  23. Jeffrey A Wesson

    Leads 1 award · $417,040

    • 5R01DK140369-03Department: NIH department code
      Protein interactions that control calcium oxalate stone formation

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey A Wesson (contact PI), Matthew Tirrell

      $417,040
      award amount
  24. Jing Dong

    Leads 2 awards · $390,600

    • 1R03HL185154-01Department: NIH department code
      Single-Cell Dissection of Cellular and Transcriptional Dynamics Driving Post-Transplant Relapse in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
      $234,000
      award amount
    • 5K01HL164972-04Department: NIH department code
      Prognostic implications of mitochondrial inheritance in myelodysplastic syndromes after stem-cell transplantation
      $156,600
      award amount
  25. Anita D'souza

    Leads 1 award · $273,000

    • 5R01HL166339-04Department: NIH department code
      Early diagnosis of light chain amyloidosis
      $273,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA300310-02, led by Melinda R Stolley.

  26. Nirav Shah

    Leads 1 award · $234,000

    • 5UG1HL138641-10Department: NIH department code
      BMT Core- Medical College of Wisconsin
      $234,000
      award amount
  27. Aprill Dawson

    Leads 1 award · $195,000

    • 1R21AG098252-01Department: NIH department code
      Voice-activated and touchscreen-controlled smart speaker intervention for adults aged 50 years and older with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
      $195,000
      award amount
  28. Laura C. Hawks

    Leads 1 award · $178,189

    • 5K23DK132505-04Department: NIH department code
      MANAGe-DM: novel nurse case management to improve diabetes outcomes in Black men recently released from incarceration
      $178,189
      award amount
  29. Nicholas P Semenkovich

    Leads 1 award · $166,204

    • 5K08GM150038-03Department: NIH department code
      Liquid biopsy cell-free DNA analysis to monitor sepsis
      $166,204
      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.

  • Amy M Moskop

    Co-investigator on 5U24CA076518-29, led by Bronwen Shaw

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

  • Adam M. Mendizabal

    Co-investigator on 5U24HL138660-10, led by Mehdi Hussain Hamadani

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

  • Brent R Logan

    Co-investigator on 5U24HL138660-10, led by Mehdi Hussain Hamadani

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

  • Steven M. Devine

    Co-investigator on 5U24HL138660-10, led by Mehdi Hussain Hamadani

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

  • Mary Maresca Horowitz

    Co-investigator on 4OT3HL147741-02, led by Mary Eapen

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Patricia Maureen Sheean

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA258759-05, led by Melinda R Stolley; 5R01CA300310-02, led by Melinda R Stolley

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

  • Gissette Reyes-Soffer

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL184418-01, led by Ze Zheng

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Barbara L. Kee

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI183571-02, led by Subramaniam Malarkannan

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Sridhar Rao

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI183571-02, led by Subramaniam Malarkannan

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

  • John M Leong

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI169724-05, led by Jenifer L Coburn

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Lynn Marie Malec

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL174609-02, led by Ze Zheng

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

  • Anthony Elston Zamora

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL179210-01A1, led by William R. Drobyski

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

  • Mingyu Liang

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL173778-03, led by Michael E Widlansky

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Joan Marie Neuner

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA285925-03, led by Kathryn E Flynn

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Elizabeth M Gore

    Co-investigator on 2UG1CA233198-07, led by Stuart J Wong

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

  • Razelle Kurzrock

    Co-investigator on 2UG1CA233198-07, led by Stuart J Wong

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

  • Tina Wf Yen

    Co-investigator on 2UG1CA233198-07, led by Stuart J Wong

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

  • William H Bradley

    Co-investigator on 2UG1CA233198-07, led by Stuart J Wong

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

  • Jeffrey Michael Toth

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG083653-03, led by Carol A Everson

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

  • Komal Sodhi

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL164460-04, led by Roy L Silverstein

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

  • Yiliang Chen

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL164460-04, led by Roy L Silverstein

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

  • Gabriel Mbalaviele

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG077732-05, led by Ann K Rosenthal

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Fan Fan

    Co-investigator on 1R21AG094068-01A1, led by Andrey Sorokin

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

  • Matthew Tirrell

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK140369-03, led by Jeffrey A Wesson

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer Mary Knight

    Co-investigator on 5T32CA269115-04, led by Melinda R Stolley

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

  • Justin L Grobe

    Co-investigator on 5T32HL134643-10, led by Mary G Sorci-Thomas

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads