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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$13.4M
$13,440,900
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
29
20 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#21
of 132 · 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 Pharmacology row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Daniel Martin Watterson

    Leads 2 awards · $2,311,580

    • 1U01AG103727-01Department: NIH department code
      IND-enabling Development and First-in-Human Safety Exposure of MW073

      Principal investigators: Daniel Martin Watterson (contact PI), Laura Beth Johnson McIntire

      $2,083,260
      award amount
    • 3U01AG076480-04S1Department: NIH department code
      GMP Production and Extended Toxicology of an Oral Formulation Drug for Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Daniel Martin Watterson (contact PI), Linda J Van Eldik

      $228,320
      award amount

  2. Murali Prakriya

    Leads 2 awards · $1,702,487

    • 5R35NS132349-04Department: NIH department code
      The Physiology of Store-Operated Channels in the Nervous System
      $963,134
      award amount
    • 1R01AI196333-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural and molecular mechanisms of CRAC channel gating

      Principal investigators: Murali Prakriya (contact PI), Megumi Yamashita

      $739,353
      award amount

  3. Alfred L. George

    Leads 2 awards · $1,274,729

    • 5R01NS137587-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiology of KCNQ2-related Disorders

      Principal investigators: Alfred L. George (contact PI), Anastasios Tzingounis, Evangelos Kiskinis

      $874,739
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125785-05Department: NIH department code
      Cellular Pathophysiology of Neuronal Na/K-ATPase Dysfunction
      $399,990
      award amount

  4. Huiping Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,228,500

    • 5R01AI167272-05Department: NIH department code
      Clinical analysis and therapeutic development of exosomal ACE2

      Principal investigators: Huiping Liu (contact PI), Deyu Fang

      $697,517
      award amount
    • 5R01CA298232-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel functions of PlexinB2 in circulating tumor cell clusters
      $530,983
      award amount

  5. Loukia Parisiadou

    Leads 2 awards · $1,144,313

    • 1R01AG101715-01Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

      Principal investigators: Loukia Parisiadou (contact PI), Rajeshwar B Awatramani, Sabine Hilfiker

      $577,784
      award amount
    • 1R01NS147081-01Department: NIH department code
      Age-related deficits in trophic support of dopamine neurons in preclinical models of Parkinson's disease

      Principal investigators: Loukia Parisiadou (contact PI), Sabine Hilfiker

      $566,529
      award amount

  6. Jennifer A Kearney

    Leads 1 award · $769,995

    • 5R37NS138211-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional genetic basis of KCNB1 encephalopathy
      $769,995
      award amount

  7. Paul W. Burridge

    Leads 1 award · $643,671

    • 5R01CA292427-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Insight to Predict and Prevent Nilotinib-Induced Artery Disease

      Principal investigators: Paul W. Burridge (contact PI), Yadav Sapkota

      $643,671
      award amount

  8. Richard S Smith

    Leads 1 award · $627,106

    • 5R01NS140046-02Department: NIH department code
      Sodium Channel Dysfunction in Altered Brain Development
      $627,106
      award amount

  9. Joshua James Ziarek

    Leads 1 award · $527,651

    • 1S10OD040300-01Department: NIH department code
      Acquisition of a 96-channel high-throughput biolayer interferometry instrument
      $527,651
      award amount

  10. Gabriel Jacob Rocklin

    Leads 2 awards · $516,417

    • 5R35GM158118-02Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput discovery and modeling of protein stability and dynamics
      $480,000
      award amount
    • 3DP2GM140927-01S1Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput discovery of protein energy landscapes in natural and designed proteomes
      $36,417
      award amount

  11. Richard B Silverman

    Leads 1 award · $460,992

    • 2R01CA260250-06Department: NIH department code
      Combination Enzyme Inhibition for Enhanced Cancer Therapy
      $460,992
      award amount

  12. Daniel Arango

    Leads 1 award · $440,000

    • 5R35GM159598-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of translation initiation by the epitranscriptome
      $440,000
      award amount

  13. Paul Gregory Decaen

    Leads 1 award · $357,606

    • 5R01DK131118-05Department: NIH department code
      Cilia calcium dysregulation in polycystic kidney disease
      $357,606
      award amount

  14. Minoli A Perera

    Leads 1 award · $356,311

    • 1R01GM162074-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Functional Validation of Hepatic eQTLs
      $356,311
      award amount

  15. Katherine L B Borden

    Leads 1 award · $351,374

    • 5R01CA080728-25Department: NIH department code
      Oncogenic Impact of eIF4E-dependent RNA Export in Cancer
      $351,374
      award amount

  16. Sarah Marie Wignall

    Leads 1 award · $338,073

    • 1R35GM164112-01Department: NIH department code
      Fundamental mechanisms driving acentrosomal oocyte meiosis
      $338,073
      award amount

  17. Smriti Sangwan

    Leads 1 award · $248,177

    • 5R00GM143527-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of translational regulation by the unfolded protein response
      $248,177
      award amount

  18. Yasmeen Lowe

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AA032949-01Department: NIH department code
      The contribution of projection-specific endocannabinoid signaling in ethanol-related behaviors
      $50,114
      award amount

  19. Dalton Jun-Da Huey

    Leads 1 award · $46,477

    • 5F31NS135753-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting KCNQ2 upstream open reading frames for therapeutic opportunity
      $46,477
      award amount

  20. Sé Hart Martin

    Leads 1 award · $45,327

    • 5F31NS141478-02Department: NIH department code
      Structural basis of gating in the Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ channels
      $45,327
      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.