Pharmacology at University of Florida

Leads a grant in this department

52 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. Catherine Anne Marcinkiewcz

   Leads 2 awards · $3,197,666

   • 1RF1AG089922-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Early Detection of Prodromal Brain Network Activity in Alzheimer’s Disease

     Principal investigators: Catherine Anne Marcinkiewcz (contact PI), Rainbo Hultman

     $2,775,541

     award amount
   • 1R21NS153379-01Department: NIH department code

     Stress-dependent modulation of aversive behavior by CART-positive neurons in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
     $422,125

     award amount

2. Hendrik Luesch

   Leads 2 awards · $2,275,132

   • 5RM1GM145426-05Department: NIH department code

     Integrative Multidisciplinary Discovery Platform to Unlock Marine Natural Products Therapeutic Opportunities

     Principal investigators: Hendrik Luesch (contact PI), Mohamed Abou Donia, Steven D Bruner, Valerie Jean Paul, Yousong Ding

     $1,760,984

     award amount
   • 5R01CA172310-12Department: NIH department code

     Novel Targeted Anticancer Agents from Marine Cyanobacteria
     $514,148

     award amount

3. Thomas P Burris

   Leads 4 awards · $2,213,935

   • 4R01AG077160-02Department: NIH department code

     Exercise Mimetics for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

     Principal investigators: Thomas P Burris (contact PI), Bahaa Elgendy

     $726,645

     award amount
   • 1R01NS148865-01Department: NIH department code

     Optimized REV-ERB agonists for Chronic Inflammatory Pain
     $603,019

     award amount
   • 5R33NS133955-03Department: NIH department code

     Screening for Nuclear Receptor TLX ligands
     $452,934

     award amount
   • 5T32GM156737-02Department: NIH department code

     University of Florida Genetics Training Program
     $431,337

     award amount

4. Marco Bortolato

   Leads 3 awards · $1,661,895

   • 7R01MH104603-10Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering gene-environment interactions in pathological reactive aggression

     Principal investigators: Marco Bortolato (contact PI), Regina A. Mangieri

     $762,991

     award amount
   • 5R01AA030256-04Department: NIH department code

     Disentangling the biological links between violence and alcohol use

     Principal investigators: Marco Bortolato (contact PI), Regina A. Mangieri

     $536,833

     award amount
   • 1R61NS144467-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Developing and validating zebrafish models of tic disorders

     Principal investigators: Marco Bortolato (contact PI), Randall T Peterson

     $362,071

     award amount

5. Ben Shen

   Leads 2 awards · $1,511,937

   • 5R35GM134954-08Department: NIH department code

     Mining Actinobacterial Genomes for Natural Product Discovery and Biosynthesis
     $850,080

     award amount
   • 5R01CA204484-08Department: NIH department code

     Novel Enediyne-Based Antibody-Drug Conjugates for Cancers

     Principal investigators: Ben Shen (contact PI), Natarajan Muthusamy

     $661,857

     award amount

6. Steven Michael Smith

   Leads 2 awards · $1,306,736

   • 5R01HL171387-02Department: NIH department code

     Analyzing effectiveness of ongoing natural experiments in telehealth

     Principal investigators: Steven Michael Smith (contact PI), Mark J Pletcher

     $660,082

     award amount
   • 5R01HL132448-07Department: NIH department code

     Antihypertensive Mechanisms of Minocycline in Resistant Hypertension: Role of the gut microbiota-brain-immune axis

     Principal investigators: Steven Michael Smith (contact PI), Carl J Pepine

     $646,654

     award amount

7. Kendall W Nettles

   Leads 2 awards · $1,300,769

   • 1R01DK143629-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Molecular mechanisms of stress hormone control of skeletal muscle metabolism

     Principal investigators: Kendall W Nettles (contact PI), Terence E Ryan

     $795,806

     award amount
   • 5R01CA275142-04Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of estrogen receptor ligand signaling
     $504,963

     award amount

8. Mei He

   Leads 2 awards · $1,293,390

   • 4U01AI191208-02Department: NIH department code

     Evaluation of High-throughput Extracellular Vesicle Loading Platform for Therapeutic Genome Editing INDs
     $912,140

     award amount
   • 5R35GM133794-07Department: NIH department code

     Advanced molecular engineering approach for understanding extracellular vesicle in vivo trafficking mechanism
     $381,250

     award amount

9. Andrew Robert Judge

   Leads 1 award · $1,290,269

   • 5P50HD119693-21Department: NIH department code

     Addressing Shortcomings of AAV GeneTherapies for the Muscular Dystrophies

     Principal investigators: Andrew Robert Judge (contact PI), Elisabeth R Barton (contact PI), Elizabeth M McNally (contact PI), Glenn Walter (contact PI), H Lee Sweeney (contact PI)

     $1,290,269

     award amount

10. Elisabeth R Barton

    Leads 1 award · $1,290,269

    • 5P50HD119693-21Department: NIH department code

      Addressing Shortcomings of AAV GeneTherapies for the Muscular Dystrophies

      Principal investigators: Andrew Robert Judge (contact PI), Elisabeth R Barton (contact PI), Elizabeth M McNally (contact PI), Glenn Walter (contact PI), H Lee Sweeney (contact PI)

      $1,290,269

      award amount

11. Elizabeth M McNally

    Leads 1 award · $1,290,269

    • 5P50HD119693-21Department: NIH department code

      Addressing Shortcomings of AAV GeneTherapies for the Muscular Dystrophies

      Principal investigators: Andrew Robert Judge (contact PI), Elisabeth R Barton (contact PI), Elizabeth M McNally (contact PI), Glenn Walter (contact PI), H Lee Sweeney (contact PI)

      $1,290,269

      award amount

12. Glenn Walter

    Leads 1 award · $1,290,269

    • 5P50HD119693-21Department: NIH department code

      Addressing Shortcomings of AAV GeneTherapies for the Muscular Dystrophies

      Principal investigators: Andrew Robert Judge (contact PI), Elisabeth R Barton (contact PI), Elizabeth M McNally (contact PI), Glenn Walter (contact PI), H Lee Sweeney (contact PI)

      $1,290,269

      award amount

13. H Lee Sweeney

    Leads 1 award · $1,290,269

    • 5P50HD119693-21Department: NIH department code

      Addressing Shortcomings of AAV GeneTherapies for the Muscular Dystrophies

      Principal investigators: Andrew Robert Judge (contact PI), Elisabeth R Barton (contact PI), Elizabeth M McNally (contact PI), Glenn Walter (contact PI), H Lee Sweeney (contact PI)

      $1,290,269

      award amount

14. David W Hammers

    Leads 2 awards · $1,239,276

    • 1R01HL187616-01Department: NIH department code

      Translational approaches to correct calcium handling in DMD

      Principal investigators: David W Hammers (contact PI), Deok-Ho Kim

      $785,873

      award amount
    • 5R01AR083108-04Department: NIH department code

      Understanding the Mechanisms of Fibrosis in Muscular Dystrophies
      $453,403

      award amount

15. Lina Cui

    Leads 2 awards · $1,231,606

    • 5R61AG090361-02Department: NIH department code

      Theranostic CAR-T Targeting Senescence in Alzheimer's

      Principal investigators: Lina Cui (contact PI), Fu-Sen Liang

      $812,231

      award amount
    • 5R35GM156219-02Department: NIH department code

      Exploring the precise role of heparanase via small molecule probes
      $419,375

      award amount

16. Laura A Solt

    Leads 2 awards · $1,211,043

    • 5R01DK136298-03Department: NIH department code

      Ligand and transcriptional regulation of the nuclear receptor RORa on TH17 cell development and inflammation
      $618,072

      award amount
    • 5R01DK135300-04Department: NIH department code

      Ligand-dependent regulation of the nuclear receptor REV-ERBa in TH17 cell development and inflammation
      $592,971

      award amount

17. Md Mahmudul Hasan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,187,117

    • 5R01DA063631-02Department: NIH department code

      Prediction of Relapse on OUD Treatment using Machine Learning-Driven Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support Tool (PROTECT)

      Principal investigators: Md Mahmudul Hasan (contact PI), Praveen Kumar

      $747,291

      award amount
    • 1R21DA062834-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Developing and Evaluating a Machine-Learning Buprenorphine Care Discontinuity Prediction E-Tool (BUP-CARE)

      Principal investigators: Md Mahmudul Hasan (contact PI), Wei-Hsuan Jenny Lo-Ciganic

      $439,826

      award amount

18. Mohammed Olusoji Gbadamosi

    Leads 1 award · $762,500

    • 4DP5OD036134-04Department: NIH department code

      Decoding the Heterogeneity in Chemo-Immunomodulation to Unlock the Potential of Chemoimmunotherapy in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
      $762,500

      award amount

19. Sophia Sheikh

    Leads 1 award · $672,525

    • 5R01HG013416-02Department: NIH department code

      Clinical Expansion of Precision Medicine in the Emergency Department

      Principal investigators: Sophia Sheikh (contact PI), Julio David Duarte

      $672,525

      award amount

20. Jay P. McLaughlin

    Leads 1 award · $666,821

    • 5R01DA055568-04Department: NIH department code

      Impacts of morphine and HIV-Tat exposures and dimethylfumarate treatment on brain BDNF and mitochondrial and behavioral dysfunction.

      Principal investigators: Jay P. McLaughlin (contact PI), Marc J Kaufman, Samikkannu Thangavel

      $666,821

      award amount

21. Jatinder K. Lamba

    Leads 1 award · $662,485

    • 5R01CA270120-04Department: NIH department code

      Integrated Systems Biology of Pediatric AML

      Principal investigators: Jatinder K. Lamba (contact PI), Stanley Barrett Pounds

      $662,485

      award amount

22. Haesuk Park

    Leads 1 award · $644,499

    • 5R01DA057886-04Department: NIH department code

      Assessing performance of a Hepatitis C Emergency Department (HepC-END) Screening Tool
      $644,499

      award amount

23. Daniel W Wesson

    Leads 2 awards · $636,345

    • 1R21DA063991-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Behavioral and neural effects of intranasal cocaine in mice
      $422,125

      award amount
    • 5T32DC015994-09Department: NIH department code

      Training Program in Chemosensory Science
      $214,220

      award amount

24. Julio David Duarte

    Leads 1 award · $633,714

    • 5R01HG011800-05Department: NIH department code

      Preemptive pharmacogenetic testing in medically underserved populations
      $633,714

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HG013416-02, led by Sophia Sheikh.

25. Jonathan Edward Bird

    Leads 1 award · $620,954

    • 2R01DC018827-06Department: NIH department code

      Molecular Mechanisms of Hair Bundle Development and Maintenance
      $620,954

      award amount

26. Patrick Robert Griffin

    Leads 1 award · $608,162

    • 5R01CA263574-05Department: NIH department code

      Structural dynamics of progesterone receptor-coactivator complexes

      Principal investigators: Patrick Robert Griffin (contact PI), Dean P Edwards, Raj Kumar

      $608,162

      award amount

27. Larisa Humma Cavallari

    Leads 1 award · $592,755

    • 5T32HG008958-09Department: NIH department code

      Training Program for Applied Research and Development in Genomic Medicine

      Principal investigators: Larisa Humma Cavallari (contact PI), Stephen E. Kimmel

      $592,755

      award amount

28. Tina Izard

    Leads 2 awards · $561,740

    • 5R35GM139604-06Department: NIH department code

      Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Adhesion
      $483,000

      award amount
    • 3R35GM139604-06S1Department: NIH department code

      Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Adhesion
      $78,740

      award amount

29. Mark S Moehle

    Leads 2 awards · $560,013

    • 5R01NS132293-04Department: NIH department code

      Cholinergic Mechanisms in Lewy Body Dementia
      $495,090

      award amount
    • 3R01NS132293-04S1Department: NIH department code

      Cholinergic Mechanisms in Lewy Body Dementia
      $64,923

      award amount

30. May Khanna

    Leads 1 award · $547,331

    • 5R01NS136684-03Department: NIH department code

      Biophysical and Pathophysiological Studies of TDP-43/Tau Interaction
      $547,331

      award amount

31. Charles J Frazier

    Leads 1 award · $535,491

    • 1R01MH138595-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms governing dendritic release of oxytocin in the CNS
      $535,491

      award amount

32. Anutosh Chakraborty

    Leads 1 award · $514,813

    • 7R01DK132162-04Department: NIH department code

      Determining hepatocyte-specific mechanisms by which Ube4A regulates NAFLD/NASH
      $514,813

      award amount

33. Chengguo Xing

    Leads 1 award · $505,477

    • 5R33AT012328-03Department: NIH department code

      The potential of kava in enabling tobacco cessation - its holistic effects in managing stress and insomnia associated with abstinence

      Principal investigators: Chengguo Xing (contact PI), Ramzi George Salloum

      $505,477

      award amount

34. Wenjun Xie

    Leads 1 award · $422,125

    • 5R35GM159995-02Department: NIH department code

      Decoding Enzyme Sequence-Activity Relationships via Generative AI for Rational Enzyme Design
      $422,125

      award amount

35. Leslie A Sombers

    Leads 1 award · $414,428

    • 5R01DA060925-03Department: NIH department code

      Expanding the Scope and Usability of Fast Voltammetric Measurements
      $414,428

      award amount

36. Fan Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $381,250

    • 5R35GM155275-03Department: NIH department code

      Reveal myeloid cell-mediated targeting through nano-bio interface
      $381,250

      award amount

37. Nikhil Urs

    Leads 1 award · $373,218

    • 5R01MH130778-04Department: NIH department code

      Role of cortical catecholamines in regulating motivated behavior and striatal dopamine
      $373,218

      award amount

38. Danxin Wang

    Leads 1 award · $373,007

    • 2R35GM140845-06Department: NIH department code

      Expression genetics of pharmacogenes
      $373,007

      award amount

39. Yousong Ding

    Leads 1 award · $363,524

    • 5R35GM128742-09Department: NIH department code

      Accessing and expanding microbial bioactive chemical diversity by synthetic biology and new enzymology
      $363,524

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1GM145426-05, led by Hendrik Luesch.

40. Aline Cristina Oliveira

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00HL165026-05Department: NIH department code

      Neuroimmune axis contribution to the pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension
      $249,000

      award amount

41. Daniel Kopinke

    Leads 1 award · $246,658

    • 5R01AR079449-05Department: NIH department code

      Ciliary Hedgehog signaling during adult tissue repair and disease
      $246,658

      award amount

42. Brandon L Warren

    Leads 1 award · $228,750

    • 5R21DA062207-02Department: NIH department code

      Identifying molecular markers of neuronal inhibition after opioids
      $228,750

      award amount

43. Chenglong Li

    Leads 1 award · $215,668

    • 2T32GM136583-06A1Department: NIH department code

      Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program at the University of Florida
      $215,668

      award amount

44. Nagalakshmi Balasubramanian

    Leads 1 award · $148,985

    • 5K99AA032034-03Department: NIH department code

      Alcohol-Induced Metabolome-Epigenome Dysfunction and Alzheimer's Disease Risk
      $148,985

      award amount

45. Louis Kolling

    Leads 1 award · $119,502

    • 1K99AG095151-01A1Department: NIH department code

      From health to dysfunction: A multi-omics approach to understanding the spread of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease
      $119,502

      award amount

46. Nicole E Chambers

    Leads 1 award · $114,102

    • 1K99NS142560-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Striatal Mu Opioid Receptor Containing Neurons in L-DOPA induced dyskinesia
      $114,102

      award amount

47. Jessie Barra

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 1K99DK146108-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Interrogating selection of autoreactive T cells using isogenic human thymic organoids
      $90,000

      award amount

48. Tyler Scott Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $86,378

    • 5K00NS124190-06Department: NIH department code

      Dissecting the Parabrachial Nucleus's Role in the Development and Maintenance of Neuropathic Pain
      $86,378

      award amount

49. Kevin Michael Knight

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32DA063169-02Department: NIH department code

      Determining the Molecular Arrangement of GABABR-GIRK Signaling Cascades
      $79,348

      award amount

50. Maria Fernanda Ramirez

    Leads 1 award · $44,304

    • 1F31DA066224-01Department: NIH department code

      Chemosensory influences of intranasal cocaine on the reward system
      $44,304

      award amount

51. Anna B Schell

    Leads 1 award · $37,114

    • 1F31DK149568-01Department: NIH department code

      Mapping REV-ERB?’s Protein Interactions to Understand Th17-mediated Inflammation
      $37,114

      award amount

52. Sarah Elizabeth Sniffen

    Leads 1 award · $17,952

    • 5F31DC021888-03Department: NIH department code

      Basolateral amygdala support of odor valence learning
      $17,952

      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.

• Rainbo Hultman

  Co-investigator on 1RF1AG089922-01A1, led by Catherine Anne Marcinkiewcz

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Iowa · Physiology (NIH department code, 3 awards)

• Mohamed Abou Donia

  Co-investigator on 5RM1GM145426-05, led by Hendrik Luesch

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Princeton University · Miscellaneous (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Steven D Bruner

  Co-investigator on 5RM1GM145426-05, led by Hendrik Luesch

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

• Valerie Jean Paul

  Co-investigator on 5RM1GM145426-05, led by Hendrik Luesch

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

• Regina A. Mangieri

  Co-investigator on 7R01MH104603-10, led by Marco Bortolato; 5R01AA030256-04, led by Marco Bortolato

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Texas at Austin · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Fu-Sen Liang

  Co-investigator on 5R61AG090361-02, led by Lina Cui

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Case Western Reserve University · Chemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Terence E Ryan

  Co-investigator on 1R01DK143629-01A1, led by Kendall W Nettles

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Florida · Physiology (NIH department code, 4 awards)

• Deok-Ho Kim

  Co-investigator on 1R01HL187616-01, led by David W Hammers

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Johns Hopkins University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 3 awards)

• Praveen Kumar

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA063631-02, led by Md Mahmudul Hasan

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

• Bahaa Elgendy

  Co-investigator on 4R01AG077160-02, led by Thomas P Burris

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Washington University in St. Louis · Anesthesiology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Marc J Kaufman

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA055568-04, led by Jay P. McLaughlin

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

• Samikkannu Thangavel

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA055568-04, led by Jay P. McLaughlin

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

• Stanley Barrett Pounds

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA270120-04, led by Jatinder K. Lamba

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

• Natarajan Muthusamy

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA204484-08, led by Ben Shen

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

• Mark J Pletcher

  Co-investigator on 5R01HL171387-02, led by Steven Michael Smith

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

• Carl J Pepine

  Co-investigator on 5R01HL132448-07, led by Steven Michael Smith

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

• Dean P Edwards

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA263574-05, led by Patrick Robert Griffin

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine (no department on record, 1 award)

• Raj Kumar

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA263574-05, led by Patrick Robert Griffin

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

• Stephen E. Kimmel

  Co-investigator on 5T32HG008958-09, led by Larisa Humma Cavallari

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

• Ramzi George Salloum

  Co-investigator on 5R33AT012328-03, led by Chengguo Xing

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Florida · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
  • University of Florida · Surgery (NIH department code, 3 awards)

• Wei-Hsuan Jenny Lo-Ciganic

  Co-investigator on 1R21DA062834-01A1, led by Md Mahmudul Hasan

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Pittsburgh · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Randall T Peterson

  Co-investigator on 1R61NS144467-01A1, led by Marco Bortolato

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Utah · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 2 awards)