Pharmacology at University of Illinois at Chicago

Leads a grant in this department

39 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. Dolly Mehta

   Leads 3 awards · $2,945,164

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount
   • 5R01HL165263-04Department: NIH department code

     Targeting mechanisms activating ion-channel for preventing acute lung injury
     $587,632

     award amount
   • 5T32HL007829-33Department: NIH department code

     Training Program in Lung Biology and Pathobiology
     $18,195

     award amount

2. Gary Ch Mo

   Leads 2 awards · $2,739,087

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount
   • 5R35GM146936-05Department: NIH department code

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

     award amount

3. Asrar B. Malik

   Leads 1 award · $2,339,337

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount

4. Jalees Rehman

   Leads 1 award · $2,339,337

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount

5. Konstantinos Chronis

   Leads 1 award · $2,339,337

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount

6. Yoshikazu Tsukasaki

   Leads 1 award · $2,339,337

   • 5P01HL160469-05Department: NIH department code

     The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during Vascular Injury

     Principal investigators: Asrar B. Malik (contact PI), Dolly Mehta (contact PI), Gary Ch Mo (contact PI), Jalees Rehman (contact PI), Konstantinos Chronis (contact PI), Yoshikazu Tsukasaki (contact PI)

     $2,339,337

     award amount

7. Andrew Riley

   Leads 3 awards · $1,662,767

   • 5R01DA057961-03Department: NIH department code

     Selective Targeting of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes for Cocaine Use Disorder
     $660,230

     award amount
   • 5R01NS134647-03Department: 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
   • 5R35GM147005-05Department: NIH department code

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

     award amount

8. Alexander S Mankin

   Leads 3 awards · $1,578,960

   • 5R01AI162961-05Department: 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
   • 1R21AI196497-01Department: NIH department code

     Identifying inhibitors of the bacterial peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase

     Principal investigators: Alexander S Mankin (contact PI), Maksim Svetlov, Paul R Carlier

     $440,908

     award amount
   • 5R35GM127134-08Department: NIH department code

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

     award amount

9. Zaijie Jim Wang

   Leads 1 award · $1,081,708

   • 5R35HL177406-02Department: NIH department code

     Molecular Mechanism and Targeting of Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
     $1,081,708

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS134647-03, led by Andrew Riley.

10. Joanna E Burdette

    Leads 2 awards · $988,417

    • 5R01CA240301-08Department: 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

      $588,667

      award amount
    • 5R01AT008824-09Department: NIH department code

      Botanical derived progestins and their impact on women's health

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

      $399,750

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AT007533-13, led by Jimmy Orjala.

11. Bisheng Zhou

    Leads 2 awards · $942,739

    • 5R01HL169447-03Department: NIH department code

      Perivascular macrophages - a new player in regulating endothelial repair following lung vascular injury
      $471,370

      award amount
    • 5R01HL176717-02Department: NIH department code

      Aerocyte-mediated Alveolar Epithelial Regeneration following Lung Injury
      $471,369

      award amount

12. Xiaoping Du

    Leads 1 award · $940,212

    • 5R35HL150797-07Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of integrin signaling and a new anti-platelet/anti-inflammatory approach
      $940,212

      award amount

13. Sandra Pinho

    Leads 2 awards · $848,706

    • 5R01HL162584-05Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cell engraftment
      $436,457

      award amount
    • 1R21CA306039-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Identification of Novel Innate Immune Checkpoint Receptors
      $412,249

      award amount

14. Andrei V Karginov

    Leads 2 awards · $784,943

    • 5R35GM145318-05Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount
    • 5R61CA297953-02Department: 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

      $385,193

      award amount

15. Paul R Carlier

    Leads 1 award · $782,108

    • 2R01AI157445-07Department: NIH department code

      Development of irresistible blood stage antimalarials

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

      $782,108

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AI196497-01, led by Alexander S Mankin.

16. Kostandin Pajcini

    Leads 2 awards · $772,569

    • 5R01HL176781-02Department: NIH department code

      Regenerative function of myeloid derived suppressor cells in the damaged bone marrow endothelial niche
      $451,909

      award amount
    • 5R01DK137093-03Department: NIH department code

      Notch signaling regulates stem cell function in the fetal liver hematopoietic niche
      $320,660

      award amount

17. Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasim

    Leads 2 awards · $771,967

    • 5R01HL174610-03Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of distal basal cells in terminal and respiratory airway regeneration
      $691,802

      award amount
    • 5R03CA289845-02Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

18. Pavel A Petukhov

    Leads 1 award · $761,198

    • 5R01AI177493-03Department: NIH department code

      Development of novel TGR inhibitors for the treatment of schistosomiasis

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

      $761,198

      award amount

19. Sang Ging Ong

    Leads 1 award · $687,852

    • 5R01HL173315-02Department: NIH department code

      Molecular mechanisms of translational control in sunitinib-induced vascular dysfunction
      $687,852

      award amount

20. Xiaowei Wang

    Leads 1 award · $665,257

    • 1R01CA311189-01Department: NIH department code

      Developing molecular diagnostic methods for cervical cancer
      $665,257

      award amount

21. Yuru Liu

    Leads 1 award · $641,027

    • 5R01HL105947-12Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of type II cells in the repair of alveolar epithelial injury
      $641,027

      award amount

22. Yulia A Komarova

    Leads 1 award · $630,810

    • 1R01HL177004-01A1Department: NIH department code

      MicroRNA-mediated regulation of lymphatic growth and function
      $630,810

      award amount

23. Michael J Federle

    Leads 1 award · $620,662

    • 1R01AI198108-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanism of host innate immunity dysfunction by quorum-active Streptococcus pyogenes
      $620,662

      award amount

24. Abhalaxmi Singh

    Leads 1 award · $576,957

    • 1R56DE036222-01Department: NIH department code

      Precision Nanomedicine Targeting Inflammatory and Osteoclast Pathways in Periodontal Disease
      $576,957

      award amount

25. Shilpa Sant

    Leads 1 award · $565,909

    • 1R01CA304933-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Engineered mineralized hydrogels to study microcalcifications in breast cancer
      $565,909

      award amount

26. Kaori Horiguchi Yamada

    Leads 1 award · $476,142

    • 5R01CA289701-02Department: 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

      $476,142

      award amount

27. Jose Abraham Villegas

    Leads 1 award · $475,447

    • 5DP2AI177928-04Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

28. Soroush Tahmasebi

    Leads 1 award · $470,106

    • 5R01HL163806-05Department: NIH department code

      Translational regulation of tissue resident macrophages by GCN2
      $470,106

      award amount

29. Yu Gao

    Leads 1 award · $429,708

    • 2R35GM133416-06Department: NIH department code

      Highly sensitive proteomics method to probe cell heterogeneity at single cell resolution
      $429,708

      award amount

30. Zongmin Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $393,371

    • 5R35GM150507-04Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

31. Jimmy Orjala

    Leads 1 award · $250,182

    • 5T32AT007533-13Department: NIH department code

      Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Health

      Principal investigators: Jimmy Orjala (contact PI), Joanna E Burdette

      $250,182

      award amount

32. Kibum Kim

    Leads 1 award · $147,747

    • 5K01DK139458-02Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

33. Zhenbo Han

    Leads 1 award · $139,113

    • 1K99CA312740-01Department: NIH department code

      The Epitranscriptomic-Microtubule Axis as a Novel Mechanism of Ponatinib induced Cardiotoxicity
      $139,113

      award amount

34. Gege Yan

    Leads 1 award · $136,804

    • 5K99HL177315-02Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

35. John L Nitiss

    Leads 1 award · $80,165

    • 5R03CA297372-02Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

36. Maria V. Barbolina

    Leads 1 award · $76,601

    • 1R03CA317617-01Department: NIH department code

      An Autism-associated Protein CNTNAP2 Promotes Peritoneal Adhesion of Ovarian Cancer Cells
      $76,601

      award amount

37. Mario Alejandro Alvarez

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI200321-01Department: NIH department code

      Development of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides, Pdi1-Derived Translation Termination Inhibitors
      $50,114

      award amount

38. Megan Jurek

    Leads 1 award · $47,786

    • 5F31NS143388-02Department: NIH department code

      Discovering Drug-Like Probes for the α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
      $47,786

      award amount

39. Yevgeniya Miglo

    Leads 1 award · $30,188

    • 5F30CA294670-02Department: NIH department code

      The effects of ovulation on fallopian tube-derived tumorigenesis using microfluidic PREDICT-MOS platform
      $30,188

      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.

• Maria Belen Cassera

  Co-investigator on 2R01AI157445-07, led by Paul R Carlier

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

• David Lee Williams

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI177493-03, 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 5R01AI162961-05, 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 5R01AI162961-05, 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 5R01AI162961-05, led by Alexander S Mankin

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Biology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Christian Peters

  Co-investigator on 5R01NS134647-03, led by Andrew Riley

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

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

• Jonathan Coppeta

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA240301-08, 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 5R01CA289701-02, led by Kaori Horiguchi Yamada

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Illinois at Chicago · Surgery (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Maksim Svetlov

  Co-investigator on 1R21AI196497-01, led by Alexander S Mankin

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

• Brian Thacher Murphy

  Co-investigator on 5R01AT008824-09, led by Joanna E Burdette

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

• Alexander Adibekian

  Co-investigator on 5R61CA297953-02, led by Andrei V Karginov

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

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