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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Funding
$14.9M
$14,870,796
Awards
38
FY2025 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
44
30 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#18
of 127 · 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

30 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 3 awards · $1,533,693

    • 5R01CA255513-05Department: NIH department code
      A transformative drug discovery platform for allosteric kinase inhibitors

      Principal investigators: Nicholas Mark Levinson (contact PI), David D Thomas

      $706,093
      award amount
    • 5R01CA282176-02Department: NIH department code
      Allosteric mechanisms driving paradoxical activation of RAF kinases
      $473,037
      award amount
    • 5R01CA244645-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting allosteric scaffolding functions of Aurora kinase A in cancer
      $354,563
      award amount

  2. Ling Li

    Leads 2 awards · $1,337,543

    • 4R01AG077772-02Department: 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

      $699,107
      award amount
    • 5R01AG081426-03Department: 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

      $638,436
      award amount

  3. Kevin D Wickman

    Leads 2 awards · $855,341

    • 5R01NS128039-03Department: 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
    • 1T32GM156572-01Department: NIH department code
      Training in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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

      $203,316
      award amount

  4. Karunya Kumar Kandimalla

    Leads 2 awards · $767,959

  5. Zhengqiang Wang

    Leads 1 award · $767,359

    • 5R01AI183580-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of novel antivirals against mpox (monkeypox) virus

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

      $767,359
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21CA303454-01, led by Jiashu Xie.

  6. Brady Atwood

    Leads 2 awards · $747,430

    • 5R01AA030955-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of prenatal opioid exposure on corticostriatal circuits that modulate alcohol-related behaviors
      $546,217
      award amount
    • 5R21DA058746-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional consequences of the interactions between tau protein and opioids
      $201,213
      award amount

  7. Lauren M Slosky

    Leads 1 award · $702,476

    • 5R01DA061773-02Department: 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

  8. Tanya S. Freedman

    Leads 1 award · $668,135

    • 1R01AR084525-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Functions of LynA and LynB kinases in myeloid-cell pro-inflammatory signaling and lupus
      $668,135
      award amount

  9. Melanie Rae Nicol

    Leads 2 awards · $643,815

    • 5R01NS139908-02Department: NIH department code
      Improving outcomes in HIV-associated opportunistic infections using CNS pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
      $453,730
      award amount
    • 3R01NS139908-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Improving outcomes in HIV-associated opportunistic infections using CNS pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
      $190,085
      award amount

  10. Sade Monique Spencer

    Leads 1 award · $601,121

    • 5R01DA056485-03Department: NIH department code
      Glutamatergic plasticity that drives cannabinoid withdrawal and craving
      $601,121
      award amount

  11. Carston R. Wagner

    Leads 1 award · $568,956

    • 5R01AI146049-05Department: NIH department code
      Anchimerically Activatable Anti-Zika/Dengue ProTides
      $568,956
      award amount

  12. Gunda I. Georg

    Leads 2 awards · $568,750

    • 5R61HD114221-02Department: NIH department code
      Catsper Inhibitors for Male Contraception
      $375,000
      award amount
    • 5R21HD115181-02Department: NIH department code
      DEL Screening Campaign for Contraceptive and Cancer Targets
      $193,750
      award amount

  13. Swati S More

    Leads 1 award · $561,759

    • 5R01DA056331-04Department: 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

      $561,759
      award amount

  14. Angela K Birnbaum

    Leads 1 award · $546,216

    • 5R01HD105305-04Department: 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

      $546,216
      award amount

  15. Dang Hai Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $512,269

    • 5R01HL163011-04Department: NIH department code
      Implications of PARP1 in myelodysplastic syndromes and targeted therapy
      $512,269
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25HL088728-17, led by Colin R Campbell.

  16. Li-Na Wei

    Leads 1 award · $480,529

    • 5R01NS132277-22Department: NIH department code
      TR2 nuclear receptor in vitamin A signaling
      $480,529
      award amount

  17. Justin Michael Drake

    Leads 1 award · $440,732

    • 5R01CA269801-04Department: NIH department code
      RET Regulation and Targeting in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
      $440,732
      award amount

  18. Jiashu Xie

    Leads 1 award · $395,973

    • 1R21CA303454-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of deazaflavin analogs as potent and selective MRP1 inhibitors for cancer chemosensitization

      Principal investigators: Jiashu Xie (contact PI), Zhengqiang Wang

      $395,973
      award amount

  19. Meghan Katrien Driscoll

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM155310-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the molecular regulation of cell protrusion function in 3D
      $387,500
      award amount

  20. Michael W Lipscomb

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM145290-04Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the immunoregulatory network governing antigen presenting myeloid cells
      $387,500
      award amount

  21. Steven Michael Graves

    Leads 1 award · $386,784

    • 5R01DA051450-05Department: NIH department code
      Methamphetamine, mitochondria, and neurodegeneration
      $386,784
      award amount

  22. Nam Chul Kim

    Leads 1 award · $308,000

    • 1R03AG087431-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial liquid-liquid phase separation in Alzheimer's disease
      $308,000
      award amount

  23. Adam Scott Duerfeldt

    Leads 1 award · $189,509

    • 5R21EY035454-02Department: NIH department code
      Bifunctional Inhibitors of STING as Chemical Probes for Diabetic Retinopathy
      $189,509
      award amount

  24. Colin R Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $163,821

    • 5R25HL088728-17Department: 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

  25. Katie M. Dunleavy

    Leads 1 award · $125,000

    • 5K99GM157491-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining Mechanisms Governing Myc Stability and its Modulation by Aurora Kinase A
      $125,000
      award amount

  26. Edith Hernandez

    Leads 1 award · $54,380

    • 5F30DA059988-03Department: NIH department code
      Repurposing Metformin as a Treatment for Cocaine Use Disorder
      $54,380
      award amount

  27. Klaiten E Kermoade

    Leads 1 award · $47,228

    • 5F31AA031597-02Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating Neurobiological Adaptations of Afferent Projections to the Lateral Habenula During Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Consumption
      $47,228
      award amount

  28. Alex Larsen Welter

    Leads 1 award · $47,042

    • 1F31DA062412-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Mechanisms and Relevance of Cocaine-Induced Plasticity of Inhibitory G Protein Signaling in the Prelimbic Cortex
      $47,042
      award amount

  29. Madelyn Moore

    Leads 1 award · $37,062

    • 1F31DA062411-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Methamphetamine-Induced Behaviors by the Neurotensin Receptor 1
      $37,062
      award amount

  30. Jonathan Israel Aguirre

    Leads 1 award · $36,914

    • 5F31AA031877-02Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons GABA-B Receptor Deletion on Cue-Evoked Relapse and Aversion-Resistant Drinking
      $36,914
      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.