Pharmacology at University of Illinois at Chicago

Leads a grant in this department

38 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. Andrew Riley

   Leads 4 awards · $1,697,663

   • 5R01DA057961-02Department: NIH department code

     Selective Targeting of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes for Cocaine Use Disorder
     $689,012

     award amount
   • 5R01NS134647-02Department: NIH department code

     α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in neuropathic pain

     Principal investigators: Andrew Riley (contact PI), Christian Peters, Zaijie Jim Wang

     $624,360

     award amount
   • 5R35GM147005-04Department: NIH department code

     Synthesis and Evaluation of Alkaloids to Probe Membrane Receptors
     $378,177

     award amount
   • 3R35GM147005-04S1Department: NIH department code

     Synthesis and Evaluation of Alkaloids to Probe Membrane Receptors
     $6,114

     award amount

2. Dolly Mehta

   Leads 2 awards · $1,138,752

   • 5R01HL165263-03Department: NIH department code

     Targeting mechanisms activating ion-channel for preventing acute lung injury
     $599,625

     award amount
   • 2T32HL007829-32Department: NIH department code

     Training Program in Lung Biology and Pathobiology
     $539,127

     award amount

3. Alexander S Mankin

   Leads 2 awards · $1,138,052

   • 5R01AI162961-04Department: NIH department code

     Advancing ribosome-targeting antibacterial peptides with a unique mechanism of action

     Principal investigators: Alexander S Mankin (contact PI), Nora Vazquez-Laslop, Terry William Moore, Yury Polikanov

     $698,327

     award amount
   • 5R35GM127134-07Department: NIH department code

     Unraveling context specificity of translation by elucidating the mechanism of action of auxiliary translation factors
     $439,725

     award amount

4. Zaijie Jim Wang

   Leads 1 award · $1,103,783

   • 1R35HL177406-01Department: NIH department code

     Molecular Mechanism and Targeting of Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
     $1,103,783

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS134647-02, led by Andrew Riley.

5. Nancy Elizabeth Freitag

   Leads 1 award · $989,468

   • 4R01AI160777-04Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering mechanisms of Listeria placental-fetal invasion
     $989,468

     award amount

6. Bisheng Zhou

   Leads 2 awards · $961,980

   • 1R01HL176717-01Department: NIH department code

     Aerocyte-mediated Alveolar Epithelial Regeneration following Lung Injury
     $480,990

     award amount
   • 5R01HL169447-02Department: NIH department code

     Perivascular macrophages - a new player in regulating endothelial repair following lung vascular injury
     $480,990

     award amount

7. Xiaoping Du

   Leads 1 award · $959,400

   • 5R35HL150797-06Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of integrin signaling and a new anti-platelet/anti-inflammatory approach
     $959,400

     award amount

8. Joanna E Burdette

   Leads 2 awards · $952,230

   • 5R01CA240301-07Department: NIH department code

     Dynamic Interactions of the Ovarian-Fallopian Axis in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

     Principal investigators: Joanna E Burdette (contact PI), Jonathan Coppeta

     $592,455

     award amount
   • 5R01AT008824-08Department: NIH department code

     Botanical derived progestins and their impact on women's health

     Principal investigators: Joanna E Burdette (contact PI), Brian Thacher Murphy

     $359,775

     award amount

9. Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasim

   Leads 2 awards · $782,951

   • 5R01HL174610-02Department: NIH department code

     Regulation of distal basal cells in terminal and respiratory airway regeneration
     $702,786

     award amount
   • 1R03CA289845-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Human stem and progenitor-based models of lung adenocarcinoma
     $80,165

     award amount

10. Pavel A Petukhov

    Leads 1 award · $767,020

    • 5R01AI177493-02Department: NIH department code

      Development of novel TGR inhibitors for the treatment of schistosomiasis

      Principal investigators: Pavel A Petukhov (contact PI), David Lee Williams, Francesco Angelucci

      $767,020

      award amount

11. Kostandin Pajcini

    Leads 2 awards · $749,725

    • 1R01HL176781-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Regenerative function of myeloid derived suppressor cells in the damaged bone marrow endothelial niche
      $461,132

      award amount
    • 5R01DK137093-02Department: NIH department code

      Notch signaling regulates stem cell function in the fetal liver hematopoietic niche
      $288,593

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL171590-02, led by Jae-Won Shin.

12. Yulia A Komarova

    Leads 1 award · $719,502

    • 5R01HL045638-37Department: NIH department code

      Programming of PMN host-defense function during transendothelial migration
      $719,502

      award amount

13. Sang Ging Ong

    Leads 1 award · $701,890

    • 1R01HL173315-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Molecular mechanisms of translational control in sunitinib-induced vascular dysfunction
      $701,890

      award amount

14. Paul R Carlier

    Leads 1 award · $688,004

    • 5R01AI157445-06Department: NIH department code

      Optimization of antimalarials targeting multiple life stages of the parasite

      Principal investigators: Paul R Carlier (contact PI), Maria Belen Cassera

      $688,004

      award amount

15. Yuru Liu

    Leads 1 award · $654,109

    • 5R01HL105947-11Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of type II cells in the repair of alveolar epithelial injury
      $654,109

      award amount

16. Andrei V Karginov

    Leads 2 awards · $624,613

    • 5R35GM145318-04Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of endothelial cell invasion, migration and cell junction plasticity
      $399,750

      award amount
    • 1R61CA297953-01Department: NIH department code

      Mapping Dynamic Changes in Protein Interactome using Proximity Labeling with High Temporal Resolution

      Principal investigators: Andrei V Karginov (contact PI), Alexander Adibekian

      $224,863

      award amount

17. Jae-Won Shin

    Leads 2 awards · $490,557

    • 5R01HL171590-02Department: NIH department code

      Engineering extracellular vesicles for therapeutic receptor activation

      Principal investigators: Jae-Won Shin (contact PI), Kostandin Pajcini

      $405,490

      award amount
    • 5R01EB034507-03Department: NIH department code

      Therapeutic nanoscale matrimeres
      $85,067

      award amount

18. Soroush Tahmasebi

    Leads 1 award · $479,700

    • 5R01HL163806-04Department: NIH department code

      Translational regulation of tissue resident macrophages by GCN2
      $479,700

      award amount

19. Kaori Horiguchi Yamada

    Leads 1 award · $479,591

    • 1R01CA289701-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Breast cancer cells secrete glycosylated protein to facilitate blood-brain barrier opening and brain metastasis

      Principal investigators: Kaori Horiguchi Yamada (contact PI), Tohru Yamada

      $479,591

      award amount

20. Michael J Federle

    Leads 1 award · $477,291

    • 5R01AI162679-04Department: NIH department code

      Macrophage Immunosuppression by Quorum-Induced Streptococcus pyogenes
      $477,291

      award amount

21. Jose Abraham Villegas

    Leads 1 award · $475,447

    • 5DP2AI177928-03Department: NIH department code

      Inducing Off-pathway Assembly of HIV Gag Polyprotein with Computationally Designed Peptides
      $475,447

      award amount

22. Sandra Pinho

    Leads 1 award · $445,365

    • 5R01HL162584-04Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cell engraftment
      $445,365

      award amount

23. Douglas D. Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $442,744

    • 5R01GM155946-02Department: NIH department code

      Nitric oxide inhibits Iron(II)2-Oxogluterate dependent demethylases to regulate DNA and mRNA methylation
      $442,744

      award amount

24. Kiwook Kim

    Leads 1 award · $415,100

    • 5R01DK126753-05Department: NIH department code

      Role of membrane-associated macrophages in health and inflammation
      $415,100

      award amount

25. Gary Ch Mo

    Leads 1 award · $399,750

    • 5R35GM146936-04Department: NIH department code

      Pyroptosis is a Trial-by-Fire Program
      $399,750

      award amount

26. Xiaowei Wang

    Leads 1 award · $399,750

    • 5R35GM141535-05Department: NIH department code

      Combined Computational and Experimental Analyses of Gene Regulation by MicroRNAs
      $399,750

      award amount

27. Zongmin Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $393,371

    • 5R35GM150507-03Department: NIH department code

      Multiscale approaches to engineering living cells for nanotherapeutic delivery
      $393,371

      award amount

28. Steve Seung-Young Lee

    Leads 1 award · $386,279

    • 1R21CA297495-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Microfluidic immunotherapy screening on a core needle biopsy
      $386,279

      award amount

29. Jeremy James Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $371,679

    • 5R37CA227101-07Department: NIH department code

      Defining the role of isoprenylated xanthones from the mangosteen for enhancing degradation of full length and variant forms of androgen receptor in prostate cancer
      $371,679

      award amount

30. Guido F Pauli

    Leads 1 award · $247,927

    • 5T32AT007533-12Department: NIH department code

      Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Health

      Principal investigators: Guido F Pauli (contact PI), Jimmy Orjala

      $247,927

      award amount

31. Kibum Kim

    Leads 1 award · $147,747

    • 1K01DK139458-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Accumulation of Elevated Risk Associated with Treatment-Escalation Differences in patients with Type 2 Diabetes (ACCELERATED-T2D)
      $147,747

      award amount

32. Gege Yan

    Leads 1 award · $136,804

    • 1K99HL177315-01A1Department: NIH department code

      The Role of GCN2 in Ponatinib-Induced Cardiotoxicity
      $136,804

      award amount

33. Elizabeth Kaweesa

    Leads 1 award · $120,972

    • 5K99GM155616-02Department: NIH department code

      Pharmacological Potential of Combined Translation and Autophagy Inhibition in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
      $120,972

      award amount

34. John L Nitiss

    Leads 1 award · $80,165

    • 1R03CA297372-01Department: NIH department code

      Biochemical determinants of genome instability induced by eukaryotic topoisomerase II
      $80,165

      award amount

35. Kanya Shah

    Leads 1 award · $53,165

    • 1R36DA062074-01Department: NIH department code

      Patient Perspectives, Follow-up Patterns, and Cost-Effectiveness of a Low-Threshold Mobile Medical Unit Providing Opioid Use Disorder Care in an Urban Setting
      $53,165

      award amount

36. Megan Jurek

    Leads 1 award · $47,210

    • 1F31NS143388-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Discovering Drug-Like Probes for the α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
      $47,210

      award amount

37. Yevgeniya Miglo

    Leads 1 award · $46,669

    • 1F30CA294670-01A1Department: NIH department code

      The effects of ovulation on fallopian tube-derived tumorigenesis using microfluidic PREDICT-MOS platform
      $46,669

      award amount

38. Anna Marisa Di Staulo

    Leads 1 award · $30,727

    • 5F31HL165859-03Department: NIH department code

      REGULATION OF BONE MARROW MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS BY VCAM1
      $30,727

      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.

• David Lee Williams

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI177493-02, led by Pavel A Petukhov

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

• Francesco Angelucci

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI177493-02, led by Pavel A Petukhov

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

• Nora Vazquez-Laslop

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI162961-04, led by Alexander S Mankin

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

• Terry William Moore

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI162961-04, led by Alexander S Mankin

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

• Yury Polikanov

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI162961-04, led by Alexander S Mankin

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Maria Belen Cassera

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI157445-06, led by Paul R Carlier

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

• Christian Peters

  Co-investigator on 5R01NS134647-02, led by Andrew Riley

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Anatomy & Cell Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Jonathan Coppeta

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA240301-07, led by Joanna E Burdette

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

• Tohru Yamada

  Co-investigator on 1R01CA289701-01A1, led by Kaori Horiguchi Yamada

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Surgery (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Brian Thacher Murphy

  Co-investigator on 5R01AT008824-08, led by Joanna E Burdette

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

• Jimmy Orjala

  Co-investigator on 5T32AT007533-12, led by Guido F Pauli

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Ohio State University (no department on record, 1 award)

• Alexander Adibekian

  Co-investigator on 1R61CA297953-01, led by Andrei V Karginov

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Chemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)