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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

Funding
$15M
$14,999,004
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
35
27 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#17
of 90 · 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 Pathology row of the University of Alabama at Birmingham page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 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. Sixto Manuel Leal

    Leads 2 awards · $3,360,603

    • 5UC7AI180255-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing SEBLAB Research Productivity, Operations and Core Laboratory Support
      $2,637,916
      award amount
    • 5R01AI170719-04Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Immune Dysregulation on Antifungal Immunity
      $722,687
      award amount

  2. Casey T Weaver

    Leads 2 awards · $1,297,641

    • 5R01AI164717-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Controlling the Development and Function of Intestinal Effector Treg cells

      Principal investigators: Casey T Weaver (contact PI), Robin D Hatton

      $729,679
      award amount
    • 5R37AI169864-05Department: NIH department code
      Coordination of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Intestinal Barrier Defense
      $567,962
      award amount

  3. Rakesh P. Patel

    Leads 2 awards · $815,013

    • 5R01ES036518-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of proteolytic extracellular vesicles in halogen gas dependent chronic lung injury

      Principal investigators: Rakesh P. Patel (contact PI), Kristopher R. Genschmer

      $445,500
      award amount
    • 2T32GM135028-06Department: NIH department code
      UAB Predoctoral Training Grant in Translational and Molecular Sciences

      Principal investigators: Rakesh P. Patel (contact PI), Mythreye Karthikeyan

      $369,513
      award amount

  4. Zdenek Hel

    Leads 1 award · $734,114

    • 5R01DK135413-04Department: NIH department code
      Dysregulated neutrophil subpopulations as a driving mechanism of liver and gastrointestinal disease in HIV-1-infected individuals
      $734,114
      award amount

  5. Shu G. Chen

    Leads 1 award · $720,169

    • 5R01AG082352-04Department: NIH department code
      Peripheral Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Mixed Pathologies in AD/ADRD
      $720,169
      award amount

  6. Vivek Nanda

    Leads 1 award · $663,438

    • 5R01HL167861-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Leiomodin1 in Hypoxic Neovessel Maturation
      $663,438
      award amount

  7. Lalita A. Shevde

    Leads 2 awards · $622,576

    • 5R25CA278711-03Department: NIH department code
      The UAB-ENhancing Research In Cancer-related Health professions (ENRICH) Program

      Principal investigators: Lalita A. Shevde (contact PI), Elizabeth E Brown

      $324,000
      award amount
    • 5R01CA262160-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of O-GlcNAc-ylation on tumor progression
      $298,576
      award amount

  8. Girish C. Melkani

    Leads 1 award · $621,072

    • 4R01NS133378-02Department: NIH department code
      Promoting circadian rhythms to optimize gut-to-brain signaling for Alzheimer's disease
      $621,072
      award amount

  9. Daniel Tyrrell

    Leads 1 award · $612,793

    • 1R01HL179505-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Age-associated cytotoxic T cell mechanisms of atherosclerosis
      $612,793
      award amount

  10. Isabel C Scarinci

    Leads 1 award · $587,368

  11. Sejong Bae

    Leads 1 award · $587,368

  12. Timiya S Nolan

    Leads 1 award · $587,368

  13. Upender Manne

    Leads 1 award · $587,368

  14. William E. Grizzle

    Leads 1 award · $587,368

  15. Ming He

    Leads 1 award · $563,897

    • 5R01HL178662-02Department: NIH department code
      Unveiling the Atheroprone Role of Novel Mechanosensitive Histone Modification
      $563,897
      award amount

  16. Christopher Ryan Miller

    Leads 1 award · $561,866

  17. Erin Eun-Young Ahn

    Leads 1 award · $508,794

    • 5R01HL168659-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and molecular basis of hematopoietic abnormalities in ZTTK syndrome
      $508,794
      award amount

  18. Elizabeth E Brown

    Leads 1 award · $497,385

    • 5R01CA300518-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of the Environment, Mutographs and T Cell Immunity on MGUS

      Principal investigators: Elizabeth E Brown (contact PI), Gareth John Morgan

      $497,385
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25CA278711-03, led by Lalita A. Shevde.

  19. Shannon Marie Bailey

    Leads 1 award · $457,851

    • 5R01AA029072-04Department: NIH department code
      Circadian and mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol-related liver disease
      $457,851
      award amount

  20. Adam Raymond Wende

    Leads 1 award · $454,093

    • 5R01HL167872-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel roles of PDK2 in heart failure: Regulation of mitochondrial nuclear crosstalk via metabolic regulation and histone acetylation
      $454,093
      award amount

  21. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan

    Leads 1 award · $417,719

    • 5R01CA271056-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and therapeutic targeting of osteoimmune functions of RANKL in breast cancer
      $417,719
      award amount

  22. Han-Fei Ding

    Leads 1 award · $372,500

    • 2R01CA190429-12Department: NIH department code
      PUS7-tRNA axis in translational control of MYC-driven transcription and metabolic reprogramming
      $372,500
      award amount

  23. Dario A Vitturi

    Leads 1 award · $371,250

    • 5R35GM152083-03Department: NIH department code
      Formation, metabolism and cell signaling actions of tryptophan catabolism-derived electrophiles
      $371,250
      award amount

  24. Xu Feng

    Leads 1 award · $275,124

    • 5R21CA296500-02Department: NIH department code
      RANK Signaling Inhibitors for Osteolytic Lesions in Multiple Myeloma
      $275,124
      award amount

  25. Taru S. Dutt

    Leads 1 award · $247,999

    • 5R00AI173401-04Department: NIH department code
      Non-tuberculous mycobacterium and B cells in the stimulation of ectopic germinal centers and immunological control of pulmonary tuberculosis
      $247,999
      award amount

  26. Craig L Maynard

    Leads 1 award · $185,625

    • 5R21AI186312-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel roles of Fc gamma binding protein in colonic host-microbiota interactions

      Principal investigators: Craig L Maynard (contact PI), Jarrod W. Barnes

      $185,625
      award amount

  27. Courtney A Swain

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA284611-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the impact of hyperglycemia on modulating T cell populations in breast cancer
      $50,114
      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.