FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biomedical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
- 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the Pennsylvania State University page.
Leads a grant in this department
9 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Scott Hammond Medina
Leads 3 awards · $2,422,814
- 4R01CA289553-03Department: NIH department codePhase Changing Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Deep Tissue Imaging of Cellular Immunotherapies
Principal investigators: Scott Hammond Medina (contact PI), Girish S Kirimanjeswara, Julianna Simon
$1,702,282award amount - 5R01AI165996-05Department: NIH department codeBiomimetic Peptide Aerosols for Rapid Clearance of Pulmonary MDR Tuberculosis$448,864award amount
- 2R35GM142902-06Department: NIH department codeUnderstanding and controlling the cellular fate of fluorinated biologics$271,668award amount
Justin Pritchard
Leads 2 awards · $1,479,924
- 1R01HG013692-01A1Department: NIH department codeEvolutionary and drug resistance landscape of human tyrosine kinases
Principal investigators: Justin Pritchard (contact PI), David Martin McCandlish
$806,828award amount - 1R01CA317433-01Department: NIH department codeDefining the evolutionary pharmacology of a selection gene drive therapy
Principal investigators: Justin Pritchard (contact PI), Michael Hemann
$673,096award amount
William Olaf Hancock
Leads 2 awards · $1,455,308
- 2R35GM139568-06Department: NIH department codeMolecular mechanism of bidirectional transport$816,787award amount
- 5T32GM149417-04Department: NIH department codeMolecular Machines Mechanism and Structure (M3S) Training Program$638,521award amount
Keefe B Manning
Leads 1 award · $777,870
- 2R01HL146921-05Department: NIH department codeModeling of Acute Ischemic Stroke for Improving Mechanical Thrombectomy
Principal investigators: Keefe B Manning (contact PI), Brent Craven, Francesco Costanzo, Scott D Simon
$777,870award amount
Yong Wang
Leads 2 awards · $721,581
- 5R01GM154105-03Department: NIH department codeThree-dimensional One-step Aptamer Selection in the Non-fouling Macroporous Hydrogel$468,177award amount
- 5R01EB035568-03Department: NIH department codeNon-covalent functionalization of collagen for growth factor delivery using bispecific aptamers$253,404award amount
Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli
Leads 1 award · $645,704
- 5R01CA278833-03Department: NIH department codeClinical Translation of dual-modality transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging for detection of aggressive human prostate cancer
Principal investigators: Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli (contact PI), Xueding Wang
$645,704award amount
Daniel J. Hayes
Leads 1 award · $432,306
- 1R21DE035280-01A1Department: NIH department codeUltrasound Controlled In-Situ Antimicrobial Delivery System$432,306award amount
Su Yan
Leads 1 award · $426,933
- 5R01NS123433-05Department: NIH department codePhotoacoustic and epigenetic nerve scaffold for nerve regeneration$426,933award amount
Pak Kin Wong
Leads 1 award · $382,288
- 1R33CA302535-01A1Department: NIH department codeBiosensor Selection of Tumor-Reactive Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Principal investigators: Pak Kin Wong (contact PI), Joseph C Liao
$382,288award 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.
Girish S Kirimanjeswara
Co-investigator on 4R01CA289553-03, led by Scott Hammond Medina
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Julianna Simon
Co-investigator on 4R01CA289553-03, led by Scott Hammond Medina
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Pennsylvania State University · Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)
David Martin McCandlish
Co-investigator on 1R01HG013692-01A1, led by Justin Pritchard
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (no department on record, 1 award)
Brent Craven
Co-investigator on 2R01HL146921-05, led by Keefe B Manning
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Francesco Costanzo
Co-investigator on 2R01HL146921-05, led by Keefe B Manning
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Scott D Simon
Co-investigator on 2R01HL146921-05, led by Keefe B Manning
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Michael Hemann
Co-investigator on 1R01CA317433-01, led by Justin Pritchard
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Xueding Wang
Co-investigator on 5R01CA278833-03, led by Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of Michigan · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)
Na Xiong
Co-investigator on 5R01GM154105-03, led by Yong Wang
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- UT Health Science Center Houston · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Joseph C Liao
Co-investigator on 1R33CA302535-01A1, led by Pak Kin Wong
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Stanford University · Urology (NIH department code, 2 awards)