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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Funding
$9.5M
$9,482,943
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
18
15 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#80
of 133 · 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 Kentucky page.

Leads a grant in this department

15 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. Simon J Fisher

    Leads 3 awards · $3,230,588

    • 5P20GM156679-02Department: NIH department code
      University of Kentucky Diabetes Prevention COBRE

      Principal investigators: Ila Mishra (contact PI), Philip A Kern (contact PI), Qingzhang Zhu (contact PI), Simon J Fisher (contact PI), Xiaohua Douglas Zhang (contact PI), Yuan Wen (contact PI), Barbara Nikolajczyk

      $2,264,219
      award amount
    • 5U01DK135111-04Department: NIH department code
      Restoration of Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia U01 Consortium: University of Kentucky
      $790,957
      award amount
    • 5T32DK138894-02Department: NIH department code
      Diabetes and ObesitY research training in kENtucky (DOYEN)

      Principal investigators: Simon J Fisher (contact PI), Barbara Nikolajczyk

      $175,412
      award amount

  2. Qingzhang Zhu

    Leads 2 awards · $3,000,748

  3. Ila Mishra

    Leads 2 awards · $2,988,478

  4. Philip A Kern

    Leads 2 awards · $2,712,260

  5. Xiaohua Douglas Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $2,264,219

  6. Yuan Wen

    Leads 1 award · $2,264,219

  7. Laurie McLouth

    Leads 2 awards · $1,183,696

    • 1R01CA308383-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Implementing Population-level Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Hazardous Alcohol Use in Routine Cancer Care as a Novel Means of Secondary Cancer Risk Reduction

      Principal investigators: Laurie McLouth (contact PI), Carolyn Lauckner, Jessica L Burris

      $610,625
      award amount
    • 5R01CA283929-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathways, a Hope-Based Intervention to Support Personal Goal Pursuit, Mental Health, and Quality of Life during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment
      $573,071
      award amount

  8. Preetha Shridas

    Leads 1 award · $685,397

    • 5R01HL173026-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of HDL-Associated Serum Amyloid A in Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury and Mortality
      $685,397
      award amount

  9. Sally Rose Ellingson

    Leads 1 award · $492,482

    • 1R01CA316685-01Department: NIH department code
      AI-Enhanced Methods for Cancer Surveillance: Improving Automated Information Extraction with DAC for Clinically Actionable Cancer Types
      $492,482
      award amount

  10. Jeremy P Wood

    Leads 1 award · $460,734

    • 5R01HL172844-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Thrombosis in SARS CoV-2 Infection
      $460,734
      award amount

  11. Thomas Kampourakis

    Leads 1 award · $437,195

    • 1R01AR086163-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Slow and Fast Myosin Binding Protein-C in Human Skeletal Muscles
      $437,195
      award amount

  12. Esther E Dupont-Versteegden

    Leads 1 award · $436,555

    • 5R01AR081002-04Department: NIH department code
      Muscle and physical function recovery after acute critical illness
      $436,555
      award amount

  13. Cody Steely

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00HG011657-05Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Longitudinal Whole-genome Sequencing Data
      $249,000
      award amount

  14. Diego Lucero

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 1K22HL171175-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transgelin Differentially Modulates the Uptake of LDL in Hepatocytes and Smooth Muscle Cells: A New Gene Involved in LDL Clearance and Atherosclerosis.
      $249,000
      award amount

  15. Christopher Howard Emfinger

    Leads 1 award · $149,467

    • 7K01DK141909-02Department: NIH department code
      Unmasking conditional dependencies of proteins influencing islet biology using machine learning
      $149,467
      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.