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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$24.5M
$24,492,011
Awards
47
FY2025 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
49
34 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#48
of 115 · 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 Internal Medicine row of the University of Illinois at Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

34 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. Jun Ma

    Leads 4 awards · $2,489,562

    • 5R01AG084527-02Department: NIH department code
      digital InteGrated behavioral treatmeNt for comorbid obesITy and deprEssion among racial and ethnic adults age 50 and older (IGNITE)

      Principal investigators: Jun Ma (contact PI), Thomas George Kannampallil

      $782,037
      award amount
    • 5R33HL155160-05Department: NIH department code
      The ALOHA trial: Addressing Quality of Life, Clinical Outcomes, and Mechanisms in Uncontrolled Asthma Following the DASH Dietary Pattern
      $764,296
      award amount
    • 5R01AG076541-04Department: NIH department code
      Project on EHR-Integrated Lifestyle Interventions for Adults Aged Fifty and Older (PIVOT)

      Principal investigators: Jun Ma (contact PI), Thomas George Kannampallil

      $634,500
      award amount
    • 5T32HL134634-07Department: NIH department code
      Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER)

      Principal investigators: Jun Ma (contact PI), Rachel Caskey

      $308,729
      award amount

  2. Tanika Nicole Kelly

    Leads 3 awards · $2,041,843

    • 5U01HG013275-03Department: NIH department code
      Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site

      Principal investigators: Tanika Nicole Kelly (contact PI), Ana Catherine Ricardo, Maria Argos

      $737,895
      award amount
    • 5R01AG077000-04Department: NIH department code
      Early Life Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Epigenetic Age Acceleration, and Alzheimer's Disease Related Brain Health

      Principal investigators: Tanika Nicole Kelly (contact PI), Lydia Bazzano, Owen T. Carmichael

      $694,435
      award amount
    • 5R01DK125782-06Department: NIH department code
      Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
      $609,513
      award amount

  3. Sybil Hosek

    Leads 1 award · $1,609,431

    • 5UH3AI169631-04Department: NIH department code
      Keeping it LITE 2: Exploring HIV Risk in Vulnerable Youth with Limited Interaction and Digital Health Intervention (LITE-2)

      Principal investigators: Sybil Hosek (contact PI), Audrey French, Lisa B Hightow-Weidman

      $1,609,431
      award amount

  4. Gye Young Park

    Leads 2 awards · $1,326,376

    • 1R01HL173152-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Immunoregulatory Role of Conventional Dendritic Cell Type 2 in Allergic Lung Inflammation
      $760,759
      award amount
    • 5R01HL153170-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of CX3CR1+ macrophage-mediated resolution of eosinophilic allergic lung inflammation
      $565,617
      award amount

  5. Ashley D. Kendall

    Leads 2 awards · $1,186,331

    • 5R01DA061795-02Department: NIH department code
      Effectiveness and Implementation of a Meditation App addressing Substance Use, Sexual Health, and Emotion Regulation among Legal-Involved Youth
      $687,540
      award amount
    • 5R01AT012892-02Department: NIH department code
      Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Decreasing Psychological Distress among Youth in the Legal System: Multi-Site Feasibility Trial of a Mindfulness Meditation App
      $498,791
      award amount

  6. Rachel Caskey

    Leads 1 award · $1,174,692

    • 5UH3HL151302-06Department: NIH department code
      Mi QUIT CARE (Mile Square QUIT Community-Access-Referral-Expansion)

      Principal investigators: Rachel Caskey (contact PI), Alicia K Matthews

      $1,174,692
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL134634-07, led by Jun Ma.

  7. James P. Lash

    Leads 3 awards · $1,115,998

    • 5U01DK133081-04Department: NIH department code
      University of Illinois at Chicago KPMP CKD Recruitment Site

      Principal investigators: James P. Lash (contact PI), Ana Catherine Ricardo

      $629,766
      award amount
    • 5U01DK060980-25Department: NIH department code
      Continuation of the University of Illinois Chicago CRIC Clinical Center
      $395,679
      award amount
    • 5T35DK131960-04Department: NIH department code
      Short-Term Research Training Program in NIDDK Mission Areas

      Principal investigators: James P. Lash (contact PI), Waddah A. Alrefai

      $90,553
      award amount

  8. Jun Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,092,552

    • 5R01DK134343-03Department: NIH department code
      Vitamin D Receptor Regulation of Microbiota in Intestinal Epithelia
      $596,255
      award amount
    • 5R01DK114126-06Department: NIH department code
      How Vitamin D Receptor Influences Intestinal Barriers
      $496,297
      award amount

  9. Steven M Dudek

    Leads 2 awards · $1,069,335

    • 5R01HL167518-03Department: NIH department code
      Pathobiology of MRSA-induced Endothelial Permeability and Acute Lung Injury
      $662,283
      award amount
    • 1T32HL176452-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral Research Training in Lung Injury and Inflammation

      Principal investigators: Steven M Dudek (contact PI), Irena Levitan

      $407,052
      award amount

  10. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys

    Leads 1 award · $957,734

    • 5R01CA257807-05Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Time-restricted Eating versus Daily Continuous Calorie Restriction on Body Weight and Colorectal Cancer Risk Markers among Adults with Obesity

      Principal investigators: Lisa Tussing-Humphreys (contact PI), Krista Amy Varady

      $957,734
      award amount

  11. Santosh Saraf

    Leads 2 awards · $893,072

    • 1R01HL180499-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the Pathophysiology of Sickle Cell-Related Kidney Disease Using SGLT2 Inhibitors

      Principal investigators: Santosh Saraf (contact PI), Anand Srivastava

      $755,853
      award amount
    • 1K24HL177273-01Department: NIH department code
      Mentoring & Patient-Oriented Research in Sickle Cell-Related Kidney Disease
      $137,219
      award amount

  12. Liang Hong

    Leads 2 awards · $842,594

    • 1R01HL174544-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Hv1 in Pulmonary Hypertension
      $522,794
      award amount
    • 5R01GM139991-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Voltage-gated Proton Channel
      $319,800
      award amount

  13. Rhonda D Kineman

    Leads 1 award · $824,655

    • 1R01DK141752-01Department: NIH department code
      MASLD protection by STAT5-regulated transcription factors

      Principal investigators: Rhonda D Kineman (contact PI), David J Waxman

      $824,655
      award amount

  14. Beata M. Wolska

    Leads 1 award · $795,669

    • 5R01HL158634-04Department: NIH department code
      Signaling To and From the Vascular/Endothelial Compartment and Progression of HCM Linked to Sarcomere Mutations

      Principal investigators: Beata M. Wolska (contact PI), Paul H Goldspink, R John Solaro

      $795,669
      award amount

  15. Anand Srivastava

    Leads 1 award · $793,840

    • 1R01DK139321-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Functional MRI to Identify High-risk CKD Phenotypes
      $793,840
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL180499-01, led by Santosh Saraf.

  16. Shiva Shahrara

    Leads 1 award · $714,758

    • 5R01AI167155-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying a novel pathway that regulates RA immunometabolism
      $714,758
      award amount

  17. Abeer M Mohamed

    Leads 1 award · $710,110

    • 5R01HL161386-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Adiposomes in Diabetes-Associated Endothelial Dysfunction and Restorative Effects of Exercise and Metabolic Surgery
      $710,110
      award amount

  18. Olusola A. Ajilore

    Leads 1 award · $699,540

    • 5T32GM145767-02Department: NIH department code
      Medical Scientist Training Program
      $699,540
      award amount

  19. Pingwen Xu

    Leads 1 award · $554,585

    • 5R01AA030880-02Department: NIH department code
      Doral raphe 5-HT neurons mediating estrogenic regulation of binge drinking
      $554,585
      award amount

  20. Ken-Ichiro Fukuchi

    Leads 1 award · $486,204

    • 5R01AG069447-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of MyD88 signaling in systemic inflammation and Alzheimer disease
      $486,204
      award amount

  21. Cemal Yazici

    Leads 1 award · $477,509

    • 2U01DK127378-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of diabetes from acute pancreatitis in African Americans and Hispanics

      Principal investigators: Cemal Yazici (contact PI), Brian Thomas Layden

      $477,509
      award amount

  22. Patrick Belvitch

    Leads 1 award · $463,176

    • 5R01HL170118-02Department: NIH department code
      CARMIL1 and Endothelial Barrier Function Regulation
      $463,176
      award amount

  23. Jose Cordoba-Chacon

    Leads 1 award · $365,725

    • 5R01DK131038-04Department: NIH department code
      PPARgamma-regulated mechanisms in hepatocytes that promote NAFLD
      $365,725
      award amount

  24. Hagar Hallihan

    Leads 1 award · $249,001

    • 4R00AA030665-03Department: NIH department code
      StuDy AimED at Increasing AlCohol AbsTinEnce (DEDICATE)
      $249,001
      award amount

  25. Yang Pan

    Leads 1 award · $244,019

    • 4R00AG083214-03Department: NIH department code
      Associations of Mitochondrial DNA Alterations with Alzheimer's Disease Related Brain Health
      $244,019
      award amount

  26. Katherine Gannett Merrill

    Leads 1 award · $234,592

    • 5R00HD105490-05Department: NIH department code
      Evidence-based sexual and reproductive health intervention using a multiphase optimization strategy
      $234,592
      award amount

  27. Sarah Messmer

    Leads 1 award · $201,960

    • 5K23DA060314-02Department: NIH department code
      Implementation of Contingency Management in a Mobile Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Clinic
      $201,960
      award amount

  28. Andrea Pappalardo Wlochowicz

    Leads 1 award · $178,783

    • 5K23HL163253-02Department: NIH department code
      Policy to Practice: An Implementation Science-Based Approach to Stock Inhalers in Schools
      $178,783
      award amount

  29. Terry G. Unterman

    Leads 1 award · $176,778

    • 5T32DK128782-05Department: NIH department code
      UIC Diabetes Research Training Program
      $176,778
      award amount

  30. Christen Vagts

    Leads 1 award · $173,480

    • 1K08HL177337-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Inflammatory-Fibrotic Axis in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
      $173,480
      award amount

  31. Marcos David Munoz

    Leads 1 award · $163,511

    • 1K01DK143197-01Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Fructooligosacharides on western diet-induced hypothalamic inflammation
      $163,511
      award amount

  32. Alison W Ha

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32HL182249-01Department: NIH department code
      The Role of S1PR2 in MRSA-induced Barrier Dysfunction and Lung Injury
      $75,520
      award amount

  33. Brenna Kirkpatrick

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 1F30DK143702-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Associations of Mitochondrial Genomic Characteristics with Kidney Function and Histopathologic Features
      $54,538
      award amount

  34. Luyu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 1F30ES036896-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Lipid-Based Interventions to Mitigate the Impact of Arsenic on Microglial Function and Neurobehavior
      $54,538
      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.