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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

Funding
$17.2M
$17,207,228
Awards
30
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
25
19 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
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 Ohio State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Xun Ai

    Leads 4 awards · $2,664,909

    • 2R01HL146744-05Department: NIH department code
      Atrial fibrillation, Thrombogenesis, and Stroke: the central role of JNK2 with therapeutic potentials

      Principal investigators: Xun Ai (contact PI), Yuchi Han

      $807,274
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168728-10Department: NIH department code
      Atrial and blood JNK in Postoperative AF
      $670,980
      award amount
    • 5R01AA031805-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic characterization of JNK2α variants in alcohol-caused heart failure
      $595,178
      award amount
    • 5R01AA031056-03Department: NIH department code
      The JNK2-NLRP3 nexus in atrial fibrillation and its anti-AF therapeutic potentials
      $591,477
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL174911-03, led by Isabelle Deschenes.

  2. Isabelle Deschenes

    Leads 3 awards · $2,115,795

    • 5R01HL174911-03Department: NIH department code
      The KChIP2-JNK2 axis as a therapeutic target for sudden cardiac death

      Principal investigators: Isabelle Deschenes (contact PI), Xun Ai

      $768,183
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174473-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Adaptive Immune System on Cardiac Electrophysiology

      Principal investigators: Isabelle Deschenes (contact PI), Shyam Sunder Bansal

      $709,263
      award amount
    • 5R01HL139006-08Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical Modulation of Cardiac Ion Channels by MicroRNA

      Principal investigators: Isabelle Deschenes (contact PI), Jidong Fu

      $638,349
      award amount

  3. Sandor Gyorke

    Leads 2 awards · $1,512,525

    • 2R01HL063043-24A1Department: NIH department code
      Controlled and uncontrollable calcium release in heart
      $781,553
      award amount
    • 5R01HL138579-09Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and Dysregulation of Cardiac EC coupling by Calmodulin

      Principal investigators: Sandor Gyorke (contact PI), Jonathan Paul Davis

      $730,972
      award amount

  4. Harpreet Singh

    Leads 2 awards · $1,219,906

    • 5R01HL179189-02Department: NIH department code
      BK channels in Cardiac physiology
      $637,090
      award amount
    • 5R01HL157453-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular identity of exosomal BK channels

      Principal investigators: Harpreet Singh (contact PI), Mahmood Khan

      $582,816
      award amount

  5. Yutong Zhao

    Leads 2 awards · $1,189,195

    • 5R01HL171220-02Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial deubiquitinase USP30 regulates cell metabolism-mediated miRNA biogenesis and microvascular inflammation
      $699,037
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169203-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular regulation of BMPRII stability in lung fibrosis
      $490,158
      award amount

  6. Nuo Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,110,314

    • 5R01HL162909-05Department: NIH department code
      Neddylation and mitophagy in cardiac aging
      $587,483
      award amount
    • 5R01HL160581-05Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between mitophagy and substrate utilization in heart failure progression
      $522,831
      award amount

  7. Jill A Rafael-Fortney

    Leads 3 awards · $1,072,438

    • 5R01AR072574-08Department: NIH department code
      Functions of skeletal muscle mineralocorticoid receptor signaling in chronic and acute injury
      $462,182
      award amount
    • 5R01NS124681-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism on inflammation in muscular dystrophy
      $416,861
      award amount
    • 5T32HL134616-10Department: NIH department code
      Training to provide the knowledge, skills, and culture to the next generation of cardiovascular scientists

      Principal investigators: Jill A Rafael-Fortney (contact PI), Brandon J Biesiadecki

      $193,395
      award amount

  8. Jidong Fu

    Leads 1 award · $772,931

    • 1R01HL183221-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Membrane-Repairing Long Noncoding RNA Masir as a Novel Therapeutic for Ischemic Heart Injury

      Principal investigators: Jidong Fu (contact PI), Kenneth Laurita

      $772,931
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL139006-08, led by Isabelle Deschenes.

  9. Krishna Chinthalapudi

    Leads 1 award · $686,983

    • 5R01HL181868-02Department: NIH department code
      Biological basis of cardiac thick filament regulation

      Principal investigators: Krishna Chinthalapudi (contact PI), Julian Stelzer

      $686,983
      award amount

  10. Dmitry A Terentyev

    Leads 1 award · $661,499

    • 5R01HL166604-04Department: NIH department code
      The mechanisms and roles of mitochondria dysfunction in cardiac arrhythmogenesis
      $661,499
      award amount

  11. Vadim V Fedorov

    Leads 1 award · $634,548

    • 5R01HL135109-09Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the Arrhythmogenic Sources of Human Atrial Fibrillation
      $634,548
      award amount

  12. Brandon J Biesiadecki

    Leads 1 award · $618,446

    • 5R01HL164795-04Department: NIH department code
      Troponin I phosphorylation as a novel novel cardiac inotrope
      $618,446
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL134616-10, led by Jill A Rafael-Fortney.

  13. Kedryn K Baskin

    Leads 1 award · $575,002

    • 5R01HL166520-04Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional Coordination and Gene Regulation by MED12 in the Cardiomyocyte
      $575,002
      award amount

  14. Jing Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $570,907

    • 5R01HL167846-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular regulation of immunoproteasome assembly in inflammatory diseases
      $570,907
      award amount

  15. Matthew Stratton

    Leads 1 award · $465,021

    • 5R01HL158971-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of Sertad4 in pathologic cardiac remodeling.
      $465,021
      award amount

  16. Yuta Nihongaki

    Leads 1 award · $433,125

    • 5R35GM159972-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular consequences of microtubule bending in living cells
      $433,125
      award amount

  17. Kiran Kumar Nakka

    Leads 1 award · $405,825

    • 1R01AR085768-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic intermediates govern transcriptional program in muscle stem cells
      $405,825
      award amount

  18. Drew Nassal

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00HL157684-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of STAT3 phosphorylation and its role in orienting myocyte hypertrophy
      $249,000
      award amount

  19. Junnan Fang

    Leads 1 award · $248,859

    • 5R00GM143517-04Department: NIH department code
      Isoform expression and post-transcriptional regulation of centrosomal plp mRNA
      $248,859
      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.