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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Funding
$18.5M
$18,453,690
Awards
37
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
49
31 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#19
of 132 · 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 Pharmacology row of the University of Minnesota page.

Leads a grant in this department

31 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. Nicholas Mark Levinson

    Leads 1 award · $1,441,495

    • 4R01CA282176-03Department: NIH department code
      Allosteric mechanisms driving paradoxical activation of RAF kinases
      $1,441,495
      award amount

  2. Fang Li

    Leads 2 awards · $1,360,685

    • 1R01AI195592-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Development of Small-molecule Direct-acting Antivirals Targeting Ebola and Sudan Filoviruses

      Principal investigators: Fang Li (contact PI), Peter I Dosa

      $790,087
      award amount
    • 2R01AI089728-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Receptor Recognition and Cell Entry of Coronaviruses

      Principal investigators: Fang Li (contact PI), Timothy Patrick Sheahan

      $570,598
      award amount

  3. Ling Li

    Leads 2 awards · $1,345,950

    • 5R01AG077772-03Department: NIH department code
      Acute and Long-Term Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and its Interaction with APOE on Cognitive Function and Neuropathology in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Ling Li (contact PI), Maxim Chacko-Joseph Cheeran, Walter C Low

      $700,148
      award amount
    • 5R01AG081426-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Mitochondrial Lipidomic Dynamics and its Interaction with APOE Isoforms on Brain Aging and Alzheimers Disease

      Principal investigators: Ling Li (contact PI), Danni Li

      $645,802
      award amount

  4. Kevin D Wickman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,065,362

    • 5R01NS128039-04Department: NIH department code
      Architecture of inhibitory G protein signaling in the hippocampus

      Principal investigators: Kevin D Wickman (contact PI), Kirill A. Martemyanov

      $652,025
      award amount
    • 5T32GM156572-02Department: NIH department code
      Training in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

      Principal investigators: Kevin D Wickman (contact PI), Anna M. Lee

      $413,337
      award amount

  5. Sade Monique Spencer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,062,391

    • 5R01DA056485-04Department: NIH department code
      Glutamatergic plasticity that drives cannabinoid withdrawal and craving
      $532,022
      award amount
    • 1R01DA066533-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating metformin and cocaine interactions in the brain at the level of pharmacokinetics, physiology, and proteomics
      $530,369
      award amount

  6. Karunya Kumar Kandimalla

    Leads 2 awards · $833,207

  7. Zhengqiang Wang

    Leads 1 award · $769,807

    • 5R01AI183580-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of novel antivirals against mpox (monkeypox) virus

      Principal investigators: Zhengqiang Wang (contact PI), Zhilong Yang

      $769,807
      award amount

  8. Michael Dennis Raleigh

    Leads 1 award · $723,125

    • 1R01DA063633-01Department: NIH department code
      Long-acting nanoparticle antidotes for the treatment of synthetic opioid overdose
      $723,125
      award amount

  9. Lauren M Slosky

    Leads 1 award · $702,476

    • 5R01DA061773-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurotensin receptor 1 as a novel target for opioid use disorder and discovery of new small molecule probes

      Principal investigators: Lauren M Slosky (contact PI), Steven H Olson

      $702,476
      award amount

  10. Rodney Kiplin Guy

    Leads 1 award · $688,164

    • 7R01AI184710-03Department: NIH department code
      Interactions between drug combinations and resistance acquisition risk for antimalarial ATP4 inhibitors

      Principal investigators: Rodney Kiplin Guy (contact PI), Joseph L. Derisi

      $688,164
      award amount

  11. Melanie Rae Nicol

    Leads 2 awards · $645,088

    • 5R01NS139908-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving outcomes in HIV-associated opportunistic infections using CNS pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
      $455,003
      award amount
    • 3R01NS139908-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Improving outcomes in HIV-associated opportunistic infections using CNS pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
      $190,085
      award amount

  12. Michael Kotlyar

    Leads 1 award · $621,549

    • 1R01CA299669-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the impact of nicotine pouch characteristics in the context of a combustible cigarette standard on overall tobacco product use

      Principal investigators: Michael Kotlyar (contact PI), Dorothy K Hatsukami

      $621,549
      award amount

  13. Tanya S. Freedman

    Leads 1 award · $617,932

    • 5R01AR084525-02Department: NIH department code
      Functions of LynA and LynB kinases in myeloid-cell pro-inflammatory signaling and lupus
      $617,932
      award amount

  14. Anna M. Lee

    Leads 1 award · $616,849

    • 1R01AA032538-01Department: NIH department code
      Sex differences in cholinergic signaling in alcohol withdrawal

      Principal investigators: Anna M. Lee (contact PI), Paul Whiteaker

      $616,849
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM156572-02, led by Kevin D Wickman.

  15. Swati S More

    Leads 1 award · $552,313

    • 5R01DA056331-05Department: NIH department code
      Identification of small molecules that regulate endogenous opioid signaling by inhibiting angiotensin converting enzyme

      Principal investigators: Swati S More (contact PI), Patrick Rothwell

      $552,313
      award amount

  16. Brady Atwood

    Leads 1 award · $534,833

    • 5R01AA030955-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of prenatal opioid exposure on corticostriatal circuits that modulate alcohol-related behaviors
      $534,833
      award amount

  17. Michael J. Sheedlo

    Leads 1 award · $529,512

    • 1R01AI189558-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Mechanism of Intoxication of the Clostridioides difficile Transferase
      $529,512
      award amount

  18. Angela K Birnbaum

    Leads 1 award · $526,908

    • 5R01HD105305-05Department: NIH department code
      Physiological-based Pharmacokinetics Approach to Determine the Extent of Drug Exposure of Antiseizure Medications During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

      Principal investigators: Angela K Birnbaum (contact PI), Page Buckhannan Pennell

      $526,908
      award amount

  19. Dang Hai Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $501,122

    • 5R01HL163011-05Department: NIH department code
      Implications of PARP1 in myelodysplastic syndromes and targeted therapy
      $501,122
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25HL088728-18, led by Colin R Campbell.

  20. Li-Na Wei

    Leads 1 award · $480,529

    • 5R01NS132277-23Department: NIH department code
      TR2 nuclear receptor in vitamin A signaling
      $480,529
      award amount

  21. Justin Michael Drake

    Leads 1 award · $440,732

    • 5R01CA269801-05Department: NIH department code
      RET Regulation and Targeting in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
      $440,732
      award amount

  22. Reena V Kartha

    Leads 1 award · $440,019

    • 1R21TR006184-01Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical Evaluation of Nervonic Acid as a Preventive Therapy for Cerebral Demyelination in Adrenoleukodystrophy
      $440,019
      award amount

  23. Carolyn A Fairbanks

    Leads 1 award · $423,500

    • 1R21DA063305-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuropharmacology of Xylazine and Fentanyl Interactions

      Principal investigators: Carolyn A Fairbanks (contact PI), George Latimer Wilcox

      $423,500
      award amount

  24. Gunda I. Georg

    Leads 1 award · $420,418

    • 1R21HD120875-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of allosteric and covalent CDK2 inhibitors
      $420,418
      award amount

  25. Meghan Katrien Driscoll

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM155310-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the molecular regulation of cell protrusion function in 3D
      $387,500
      award amount

  26. Michael W Lipscomb

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM145290-05Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the immunoregulatory network governing antigen presenting myeloid cells
      $387,500
      award amount

  27. Colin R Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $163,821

    • 5R25HL088728-18Department: NIH department code
      Summer Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School

      Principal investigators: Colin R Campbell (contact PI), Dang Hai Nguyen

      $163,821
      award amount

  28. Klaiten E Kermoade

    Leads 1 award · $47,804

    • 5F31AA031597-03Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating Neurobiological Adaptations of Afferent Projections to the Lateral Habenula During Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Consumption
      $47,804
      award amount

  29. Alex Larsen Welter

    Leads 1 award · $47,618

    • 5F31DA062412-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Mechanisms and Relevance of Cocaine-Induced Plasticity of Inhibitory G Protein Signaling in the Prelimbic Cortex
      $47,618
      award amount

  30. Madelyn Moore

    Leads 1 award · $37,991

    • 5F31DA062411-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Methamphetamine-Induced Behaviors by the Neurotensin Receptor 1
      $37,991
      award amount

  31. Jonathan Israel Aguirre

    Leads 1 award · $37,490

    • 5F31AA031877-03Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons GABA-B Receptor Deletion on Cue-Evoked Relapse and Aversion-Resistant Drinking
      $37,490
      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.