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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC

Funding
$14.1M
$14,120,479
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
27
23 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#64
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 University of South Carolina page.

Leads a grant in this department

23 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. Patrick A Flume

    Leads 1 award · $3,784,164

    • 5UM1TR005294-02Department: NIH department code
      The South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR)

      Principal investigators: Patrick A Flume (contact PI), Kathleen T. Brady

      $3,784,164
      award amount

  2. Don C. Rockey

    Leads 4 awards · $1,784,975

    • 5P30DK123704-07Department: NIH department code
      MUSC Digestive Disease Research Core Center

      Principal investigators: Caroline Westwater (contact PI), Don C. Rockey (contact PI), Garth R Swanson (contact PI), Richard R. Drake (contact PI), Stephen A Duncan (contact PI), Zhi Zhong (contact PI)

      $1,057,000
      award amount
    • 5R01DK113159-07Department: NIH department code
      A Molecular Approach to the Pathogenesis of Portal Hypertension
      $458,793
      award amount
    • 5UE5DK137316-04Department: NIH department code
      Medical University of South Carolina Mentoring Program in Digestive and Liver Diseases
      $161,182
      award amount
    • 5R25DK137770-03Department: NIH department code
      MUSC GI and Hepatology Medical Student Training Program
      $108,000
      award amount

  3. Gary S Gilkeson

    Leads 1 award · $1,278,903

    • 5U01AI184159-03Department: NIH department code
      A Phase II Controlled Trial of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for the Treatment of Refractory Lupus (MiSLE)

      Principal investigators: Gary S Gilkeson (contact PI), Diane L Kamen

      $1,278,903
      award amount

  4. Kurt W Prins

    Leads 2 awards · $1,172,239

    • 7R01HL162927-05Department: NIH department code
      GP130 Antagonism in Porcine RV Pressure Overload
      $665,947
      award amount
    • 5R01HL158795-06Department: NIH department code
      Multi-scale Investigation of Sex Differences in Right Ventricular Function via Estrogen-Microtubule Interactions
      $506,292
      award amount

  5. Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick

    Leads 3 awards · $1,097,266

    • 5R25GM147291-05Department: NIH department code
      ASCEnD - A national program of Academic Support and Coaching for Entrepreneurial Development
      $457,484
      award amount
    • 5T32HL144470-08Department: NIH department code
      Pulmonary Focused Foundations in Innovation and Scholarship (PuFFInS)
      $420,206
      award amount
    • 5T32TR005290-02Department: NIH department code
      CTSA Predoctoral T32 Program at the Medical University of South Carolina
      $219,576
      award amount

  6. Caroline Westwater

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,000

  7. Garth R Swanson

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,000

  8. Richard R. Drake

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,000

  9. Stephen A Duncan

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,000

  10. Zhi Zhong

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,000

  11. Donald R. Menick

    Leads 1 award · $712,930

    • 5R01HL170060-03Department: NIH department code
      Biomimetic nanomaterials for the immunomodulation of the cardiosplenic axis post-myocardial infarction

      Principal investigators: Donald R. Menick (contact PI), Jason R. McCarthy

      $712,930
      award amount

  12. Eric G. Meissner

    Leads 1 award · $679,090

    • 1R01AI192546-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cellular regulation of interferon lambda signaling by interferon lambda receptor 1 variants
      $679,090
      award amount

  13. Betty P Tsao

    Leads 1 award · $643,275

    • 5R01AR085045-02Department: NIH department code
      Identify Rare Pathogenic Variants and their Functional Consequences in SLE

      Principal investigators: Betty P Tsao (contact PI), Christopher J Lessard

      $643,275
      award amount

  14. Russell William Jenkins

    Leads 1 award · $569,782

    • 5R37CA283560-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the tumor-intrinsic and -extrinsic roles of TBK1 in tumor immunity
      $569,782
      award amount

  15. Brian Hess

    Leads 1 award · $531,092

    • 5R01CA282408-03Department: NIH department code
      Assessing Metabolically Reprogrammed and Purified CD19-CAR-T in NHL and CLL

      Principal investigators: Brian Hess (contact PI), Shikhar Mehrotra

      $531,092
      award amount

  16. Kristine Y Deleon-Pennell

    Leads 1 award · $494,587

    • 5R01HL173273-03Department: NIH department code
      Temporal effects of CD8 T-cells post-MI
      $494,587
      award amount

  17. Melissa A Cunningham

    Leads 1 award · $343,989

    • 5R01AR078545-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Variant Size and Localization in Modulating TLR7-Induced Inflammation
      $343,989
      award amount

  18. Diane L Kamen

    Leads 1 award · $278,252

    • 2T32AR050958-21Department: NIH department code
      Training Grant in Inflammatory and Fibrosing Diseases
      $278,252
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AI184159-03, led by Gary S Gilkeson.

  19. Yosra Alkabab

    Leads 2 awards · $200,577

    • 5K23AI187709-02Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Syndrome Outcomes Among Patients with Tuberculosis in Tanzania
      $163,890
      award amount
    • 3K23AI187709-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Syndrome Outcomes Among Patients with Tuberculosis in Tanzania
      $36,687
      award amount

  20. Deanna Baker Frost

    Leads 2 awards · $188,784

    • 5K08AR078372-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Hormonal Dysregulation in Systemic Sclerosis
      $186,624
      award amount
    • 3K08AR078372-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Hormonal Dysregulation in Systemic Sclerosis
      $2,160
      award amount

  21. Michele Esposito

    Leads 1 award · $188,568

    • 1K23HL183841-01Department: NIH department code
      Regional Disparity of Skeletal Muscle Microvascular Dysfunction in Systolic Heart Failure
      $188,568
      award amount

  22. Ludivine Renaud

    Leads 1 award · $119,986

    • 5K01AR083019-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of KLF4 in SSc-associated lung fibrosis
      $119,986
      award amount

  23. Stephanie A Mills

    Leads 1 award · $52,020

    • 5F30CA298573-02Department: NIH department code
      Peroxisome Biogenesis in Anti-Tumor T Tell Metabolic Fitness
      $52,020
      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.