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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

Funding
$10.2M
$10,232,382
Awards
26
FY2025 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
25
21 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#26
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 Pediatrics row of the University of Alabama at Birmingham page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Cassandra R. Newsom

    Leads 1 award · $2,173,410

  2. Namasivayam Ambalavanan

    Leads 4 awards · $1,417,256

    • 5R01HL156275-03Department: NIH department code
      Let-7b in BPD
      $554,376
      award amount
    • 5R01HD105205-05Department: NIH department code
      Vital Signs In Opioid-Exposed Neonates
      $507,733
      award amount
    • 5UG1HD107580-04Department: NIH department code
      UAB Clinical Site HEAL Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Pharmacological Treatments
      $221,454
      award amount
    • 5UG1HD104251-03Department: NIH department code
      UAB Outcomes of Babies with Opioid Exposure (OBOE study)

      Principal investigators: Namasivayam Ambalavanan (contact PI), Ada Myriam Peralta-Carcelen

      $133,693
      award amount

  3. Waldemar A. Carlo Font

    Leads 3 awards · $932,016

    • 3UG1HD078437-13S1Department: NIH department code
      Interventions to Reduce Infant Mortality and Morbidity in Low Resource Settings
      $425,224
      award amount
    • 5UG1HD034216-30Department: NIH department code
      NICHD Neonatal Research Network Clinical Center UAB
      $326,700
      award amount
    • 5UG1HD078437-13Department: NIH department code
      Interventions to Reduce Infant Mortality and Morbidity in Low Resource Settings
      $180,092
      award amount

  4. Emily Elizabeth Johnston

    Leads 1 award · $661,845

    • 1R37CA296615-01Department: NIH department code
      Unpacking Structural Racism in Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer
      $661,845
      award amount

  5. Michele Kong

    Leads 1 award · $629,055

    • 5R01HD105678-05Department: NIH department code
      A Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial of Azithromycin for RSV-induced Respiratory Failure in Children
      $629,055
      award amount

  6. Julie Anna Wolfson

    Leads 1 award · $540,972

    • 5R01CA248439-05Department: NIH department code
      Predictors of Systemic Exposure to Oral 6MP During Maintenance in Adolescentsand Young Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
      $540,972
      award amount

  7. Jegen Kandasamy

    Leads 1 award · $518,023

    • 5R01HL173194-02Department: NIH department code
      MTDNA HAPLOGROUPS IN BPD
      $518,023
      award amount

  8. Ariel Salas

    Leads 1 award · $467,474

    • 1R01HD117932-01Department: NIH department code
      A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Two Human Milk Volumes to Optimize Growth and Gut Health in Infants Born Very Preterm
      $467,474
      award amount

  9. William Jarvis Britt

    Leads 1 award · $466,698

    • 5R01AI173778-03Department: NIH department code
      Tegument Envelope Protein Interactions in CMV Envelopment
      $466,698
      award amount

  10. Rintaro Hashizume

    Leads 1 award · $360,645

    • 5R01NS126513-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Transcriptional Elongation in Pediatric Glioma
      $360,645
      award amount

  11. Babajide Ojo

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00DK136971-03Department: NIH department code
      Dysregulation of Epithelial Metabolism and Regeneration by Sulfite Exposure in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis
      $249,000
      award amount

  12. Matthew Scott Alexander

    Leads 1 award · $236,566

    • 1R21NS140497-01Department: NIH department code
      Dystrophin as a novel regulator of the circadian clock in skeletal muscle and the brain
      $236,566
      award amount

  13. Michael Alonzo Lopez

    Leads 1 award · $221,425

    • 5K08NS120812-05Department: NIH department code
      Smad8 is a driver of Duchenne muscular dystrophy pathology via myomiR repression
      $221,425
      award amount

  14. Robert P Richter

    Leads 1 award · $188,676

    • 5K08GM144788-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms driving endothelial angiopoietin-2 expression and vascular dysfunction during pediatric sepsis
      $188,676
      award amount

  15. Hope Wilson

    Leads 1 award · $186,153

    • 1K23HL175238-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Venous Thromboembolism: Enhancing Representation in Clinical Trials and Investigation of Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Secondary Anticoagulation Use and Outcomes in Children
      $186,153
      award amount

  16. Colm Peter Travers

    Leads 1 award · $180,561

    • 5K23HL157618-04Department: NIH department code
      Non-invasive oscillometry to measure lung mechanics, response to treatments, and predict longer-term pulmonary outcomes among preterm infants: a prospective cohort study
      $180,561
      award amount

  17. Melissa Mannion

    Leads 1 award · $175,932

    • 5K23AR081410-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing a tool to support shared decision making in JIA between adolescents, parents, and providers
      $175,932
      award amount

  18. Chinenye Rebecca Dike

    Leads 1 award · $171,180

    • 5K23HL173704-02Department: NIH department code
      A Double Blinded Randomized Feasibility Trial on the Use of Plant Based Omega-3-Fatty Acids (Flaxseed) to Improve Inflammation Driven Pain Outcomes in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
      $171,180
      award amount

  19. Viral G Jain

    Leads 1 award · $171,095

    • 5K08HL171892-02Department: NIH department code
      IL17 mediates chorioamnionitis induced lung damage
      $171,095
      award amount

  20. Brandi Pernell

    Leads 1 award · $169,776

    • 5K23HL159280-04Department: NIH department code
      Promotion of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Children with Sickle Cell Disease for Improved Health Outcomes
      $169,776
      award amount

  21. Donna Murdaugh

    Leads 1 award · $114,624

    • 5K23MD017288-04Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal study of cognitive remediation to prepare for transition of care in youth with sickle cell disease
      $114,624
      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.

  • Lea Georgette Yerby

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA055322-05, led by Cassandra R. Newsom

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Rajesh K Kana

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA055322-05, led by Cassandra R. Newsom

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Yanyu Xiong

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA055322-05, led by Cassandra R. Newsom

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Ada Myriam Peralta-Carcelen

    Co-investigator on 5UG1HD104251-03, led by Namasivayam Ambalavanan

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.