Pharmacology at University of Kentucky

Leads a grant in this department

46 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. Walsh, Sharon L.

   Leads 1 award · $20,388,990

   • 1UM1DA049406-01Department: NIH department code

     Kentucky CAN HEAL (Communities and Networks Helping End Addiction Long-term)
     $20,388,990

     award amount

2. Cassis, Lisa A

   Leads 2 awards · $7,147,500

   • 1C06OD028340-01Department: NIH department code

     Healthy Kentucky Research Building Fit-up for Vascular Research
     $6,000,000

     award amount
   • 5P30GM127211-02Department: NIH department code

     Center of Research on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
     $1,147,500

     award amount

3. St Clair, Daret K

   Leads 3 awards · $2,975,995

   • 5P20GM121327-03Department: NIH department code

     University of Kentucky Center for Cancer and Metabolism
     $2,248,005

     award amount
   • 5R01CA214638-02Department: NIH department code

     A redox-mediated mechanism of UVB-induced metabolic switch in skin carcinogenesis
     $399,091

     award amount
   • 5R01CA205400-04Department: NIH department code

     Distinct Redox Mechanism in Normal and Cancer Cells as a Novel Therapeutic Target
     $328,899

     award amount

4. Hahn, Ellen J

   Leads 1 award · $1,496,462

   • 5P30ES026529-03Department: NIH department code

     Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences
     $1,496,462

     award amount

5. Liu, Xiaoqi

   Leads 5 awards · $1,350,360

   • 7R01CA192894-04Department: NIH department code

     Enhancing anti-neoplastic activity of metformin in prostate cancer
     $335,913

     award amount
   • 5R01CA196835-05Department: NIH department code

     Treatment of Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC)
     $332,580

     award amount
   • 5R01CA196634-05Department: NIH department code

     Improving chemotherapy of castration-resistant prostate cancer
     $329,881

     award amount
   • 7R01CA157429-07Department: NIH department code

     Overcoming drug resistance of castration-resistant prostate cancer
     $244,949

     award amount
   • 5T32ES007266-29Department: NIH department code

     Training Grant in Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity
     $107,037

     award amount

6. Phillips, George Neal

   Leads 2 awards · $1,064,493

   • 5R01GM115261-04Department: NIH department code

     Platform technologies for understanding and exploiting methylation
     $563,800

     award amount
   • 5R01CA217255-03Department: NIH department code

     Studies to understand and exploit 10-membered enediyne biosynthesis
     $500,693

     award amount

7. Lin, Ai-Ling

   Leads 1 award · $1,060,292

   • 1RF1AG062480-01Department: NIH department code

     Prebiotics Intervention to Reduce Alzheimer's Disease Risk via Brain-Gut Axis in an APOE4 Mouse Model
     $1,060,292

     award amount

8. Despa, Florin

   Leads 2 awards · $1,030,906

   • 5R01AG057290-03Department: NIH department code

     Programming amylin secretion to slow brain aging - an animal model
     $656,086

     award amount
   • 5R01AG053999-04Department: NIH department code

     Role of Systemic Amylin Dyshomeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease
     $374,820

     award amount

9. Bates, Paula J

   Leads 1 award · $999,998

   • 1U01HL152392-01Department: NIH department code

     Kentucky Network for Innovation & Commercialization (“KYNETIC”)
     $999,998

     award amount

10. Fu, Jian

    Leads 4 awards · $994,500

    • 5R01HL137910-02Department: NIH department code

      HDAC6 regulation of ICAM-1 expression and endothelial inflammatory signaling in sepsis
      $382,500

      award amount
    • 1R21AI142576-01Department: NIH department code

      Endothelial JAK3 expression and inflammatory lung injury in sepsis
      $229,500

      award amount
    • 5R21AI135345-02Department: NIH department code

      HDAC6 regulation of beta-catenin and endothelial adherens junctions in sepsis
      $191,250

      award amount
    • 5R21ES028752-02Department: NIH department code

      Role of EHMT2 in tobacco smoke-induced epithelial barrier dysfunction
      $191,250

      award amount

11. Dwoskin, Linda P

    Leads 1 award · $839,154

    • 5U01DA043908-02Department: NIH department code

      Development of Novel Therapeutics for Methamphetamine Abuse
      $839,154

      award amount

12. Zhan, Chang-Guo

    Leads 1 award · $811,835

    • 5UH3DA041115-05Department: NIH department code

      Development of Long-acting Cocaine Hydrolase as a Treatment for Cocaine Abuse
      $811,835

      award amount

13. Babalonis, Shanna

    Leads 2 awards · $741,755

    • 5R01DA045700-02Department: NIH department code

      Evaluation of Marijuana and Opioid Drug Interactions: Assessment of the Safety Profile, Abuse-Related Pharmacodynamic Effects and Models of Drug Intake
      $555,524

      award amount
    • 5R21DA045101-02Department: NIH department code

      Evaluating Recreational and Medical Marijuana Strains for Impairing Effects on Simulated Driving Performance
      $186,231

      award amount

14. Shi, Xianglin

    Leads 1 award · $728,875

    • 5R01ES025515-05Department: NIH department code

      Oxidative stress, Cr(VI) carcinogenesis, and prevention
      $728,875

      award amount

15. Shi, Xianglin

    Leads 2 awards · $688,500

    • 1R01ES029838-01A1Department: NIH department code

      The role of p62 in the mechanism of Cr(VI) carcinogenesis
      $344,250

      award amount
    • 5R01ES028984-02Department: NIH department code

      Role of Autophagy in Cd(II) Carcinogenesis
      $344,250

      award amount

16. Yang, Chengfeng

    Leads 2 awards · $680,527

    • 1R01ES029942-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Mechanism of hexavalent chromium carcinogenesis - Role of long non-coding RNA dysregulation
      $344,250

      award amount
    • 5R01ES026151-05Department: NIH department code

      The epigenetic mechanism of hexavalent chromium carcinogenesis
      $336,277

      award amount

17. Lauffenburger, Douglas A

    Leads 1 award · $555,701

    • 5R01DK108056-04Department: NIH department code

      Inflammation in human obesity and type 2 diabetes
      $555,701

      award amount

18. Garneau-Tsodikova, Sylvie

    Leads 1 award · $549,255

    • 5R01AI090048-08Department: NIH department code

      Novel aminoglycoside adjuvants and stand-alone agents to combat tuberculosis
      $549,255

      award amount

19. De Beer, Frederick C

    Leads 1 award · $521,989

    • 5R01HL134731-03Department: NIH department code

      Serum Amyloid A, Inflammasome Activation, and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
      $521,989

      award amount

20. Landfield, Philip W.

    Leads 1 award · $512,543

    • 5R37AG004542-30Department: NIH department code

      Hippocampal Synaptic Structure
      $512,543

      award amount

21. Bondada, Subbarao

    Leads 1 award · $458,815

    • 5R01CA217934-03Department: NIH department code

      (PQ9)A redox-mediated mechanism of chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment
      $458,815

      award amount

22. Graf, Gregory A

    Leads 1 award · $451,563

    • 5R01DK113625-03Department: NIH department code

      Contributions of hepatic and intestinal pathways to cholesterol excretion
      $451,563

      award amount

23. Loria, Analia

    Leads 1 award · $448,038

    • 5R01HL135158-02Department: NIH department code

      Effect of early life stress on obesity-induced hypertension in mice
      $448,038

      award amount

24. Thorson, Jon Scott

    Leads 1 award · $438,459

    • 5R37AI052218-18Department: NIH department code

      In Vitro Glycorandomization of Natural Products
      $438,459

      award amount

25. Prisinzano, Thomas Edward

    Leads 1 award · $430,586

    • 7R01DA018151-15Department: NIH department code

      Investigation of Neoclerodanes as Novel Opioid Ligands
      $430,586

      award amount

26. Temel, Ryan Eugene

    Leads 1 award · $420,750

    • 1R21NS111979-01Department: NIH department code

      Targeting microRNA-33 to reduce intracranial atherosclerosis and other neurovascular hallmarks of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia
      $420,750

      award amount

27. Despa, Sanda

    Leads 1 award · $410,119

    • 5R01HL135000-03Department: NIH department code

      Role of myocyte Na+ dysregulation in diabetic heart disease
      $410,119

      award amount

28. Venditto, Vincent Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $389,899

    • 1R56HL145051-01Department: NIH department code

      Understanding the role of anti-apolipoprotein A-I antibodies in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
      $389,899

      award amount

29. Bauer, Bjoern

    Leads 1 award · $386,421

    • 5R01NS107548-02Department: NIH department code

      A novel strategy to overcome the P-gp/BCRP drug efflux system at the blood-brain barrier to improve brain uptake of CNS therapeutics
      $386,421

      award amount

30. Yiannikouris, Frederique

    Leads 1 award · $374,618

    • 5R01HL142969-02Department: NIH department code

      The role of soluble prorenin receptor in hypertension associated with obesity
      $374,618

      award amount

31. She, Qing-Bai

    Leads 1 award · $374,318

    • 5R01CA203257-04Department: NIH department code

      Natural product-based modulators of 4E-BP1 phosphorylation
      $374,318

      award amount

32. Van Lanen, Steven Gary

    Leads 1 award · $373,220

    • 5R01AI087849-08Department: NIH department code

      Biosynthesis of nucleoside antibiotics targeting bacterial translocase I
      $373,220

      award amount

33. Jicha, Gregory A

    Leads 1 award · $368,857

    • 5R01AG054130-04Department: NIH department code

      INtervention for Cognitive Reserve Enhancement in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s Symptomatic Expression: The INCREASE study
      $368,857

      award amount

34. Brainson, Christine Fillmore

    Leads 1 award · $349,988

    • 1R01CA237643-01Department: NIH department code

      Targeting epigenetic heterogeneity to improve lung cancer immunotherapy response
      $349,988

      award amount

35. Chen, Gang

    Leads 1 award · $344,250

    • 5R01ES026657-03Department: NIH department code

      Microenvironment and Arsenic Lung Tumorigenesis
      $344,250

      award amount

36. Wang, Zhishan

    Leads 1 award · $344,250

    • 5R01ES028256-02Department: NIH department code

      Epigenetic mechanism of the synergistic tumorigenic effect of arsenic and benzo[a]pyrene co-exposure
      $344,250

      award amount

37. Wu, Yadi

    Leads 1 award · $339,487

    • 5R01CA230758-02Department: NIH department code

      Characterize the role of EBF1 in breast cancer progression
      $339,487

      award amount

38. Plattner, Rina

    Leads 1 award · $338,028

    • 5R01CA211137-02Department: NIH department code

      Targeting Abl kinases in BRAF-driven melanomas
      $338,028

      award amount

39. Thibault, Olivier

    Leads 1 award · $332,818

    • 5R01AG033649-10Department: NIH department code

      A healthy brain aging strategy to restore insulin signaling and Ca homeostasis
      $332,818

      award amount

40. Wei, Qiou

    Leads 1 award · $332,604

    • 5R01CA222596-02Department: NIH department code

      Role of Sulfiredoxin in Colorectal Cancer Development
      $332,604

      award amount

41. Goellner, Eva Marie

    Leads 1 award · $246,169

    • 5R00ES026653-04Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of mismatch repair mediated cell death after alkylating agent exposure
      $246,169

      award amount

42. Webb, Nancy R

    Leads 2 awards · $243,341

    • 5T32DK007778-20Department: NIH department code

      Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Metabolic Disease
      $233,341

      award amount
    • 1R13HL147519-01Department: NIH department code

      Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions 2019
      $10,000

      award amount

43. Turner, Jill R.

    Leads 1 award · $202,978

    • 7R01DA044311-03Department: NIH department code

      Dynamic Signaling of NRG3-ErbB4 in the Hippocampus Mediates Nicotine Withdrawal Phenotypes
      $202,978

      award amount

44. Thorson, Jon Scott

    Leads 1 award · $200,000

    • 5R01AI128862-03Department: NIH department code

      Biosynthesis and medicinal chemistry of the capuramycin antimycobacterial antibiotics
      $200,000

      award amount

45. Swanson, Hollie Isabel

    Leads 1 award · $98,051

    • 5R25ES027684-03Department: NIH department code

      Summer Research in Environmental Health Sciences
      $98,051

      award amount

46. Luo, Jia

    Leads 1 award · $78,934

    • 5R21AA026344-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms for alcohol-induced pancreatic damage
      $78,934

      award amount