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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha, NE

Funding
$12.3M
$12,279,210
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
16
11 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#25
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 Nebraska Medical Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Prasanta Kumar Dash

    Leads 1 award · $2,571,326

    • 1RF1NS153514-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Molecular Link between Bioenergetics, Latency, and Neuro-cognitive Impairment during HIV-associated progressive Aging
      $2,571,326
      award amount

  2. Benson Edagwa

    Leads 2 awards · $2,195,620

    • 5R61AI188553-02Department: NIH department code
      Dose flexible ultra-long-acting prodrug formulations for pediatric populations

      Principal investigators: Benson Edagwa (contact PI), Howard E Gendelman

      $1,428,122
      award amount
    • 5R01AI145542-07Department: NIH department code
      Prodrug Formulations Create Sustained-Release Antiretrovirals

      Principal investigators: Benson Edagwa (contact PI), Howard E Gendelman

      $767,498
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH121402-07, led by Howard E Gendelman; 5R01AI163042-05, led by Natalia Aleksandr Osna.

  3. Siddappa N Byrareddy

    Leads 3 awards · $1,974,689

    • 5R01DA059874-02Department: NIH department code
      Cannabinoid inhibition of CNS inflammasome activation via modulation of the gut-brain axis

      Principal investigators: Siddappa N Byrareddy (contact PI), Mahesh Mohan

      $879,451
      award amount
    • 5R01DA061678-03Department: NIH department code
      Sex differences in modulating HIV/SIV reservoirs in the context of opioids
      $673,113
      award amount
    • 1R21AG102223-01Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Misfolded Protein Aggregates on Latent Reservoirs in SIV-infected, ART-treated Aged Rhesus Macaques

      Principal investigators: Siddappa N Byrareddy (contact PI), Arpan Acharya

      $422,125
      award amount

  4. Shilpa J Buch

    Leads 3 awards · $1,509,648

    • 1R01DA065476-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of microglial ferritinophagy in HIV and cocaine-mediated neuroinflammation

      Principal investigators: Shilpa J Buch (contact PI), Palsamy Periyasamy

      $544,256
      award amount
    • 5R01DA060755-03Department: NIH department code
      HIV Tat and Opiate-mediated aberrations in glial-neuronal crosstalk: Implications for the role of extracellular RNA in HAND

      Principal investigators: Shilpa J Buch (contact PI), Susmita Sil

      $517,330
      award amount
    • 5R01DA062274-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular interplay of HIV Tat, cocaine, and cART in microglial pyroptosis: Role of NLRP3 inflammasome

      Principal investigators: Shilpa J Buch (contact PI), Palsamy Periyasamy

      $448,062
      award amount

  5. Howard E Gendelman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,417,254

    • 5R01NS034239-31Department: NIH department code
      Neuroprotective Immunity and HIV Dementia

      Principal investigators: Howard E Gendelman (contact PI), R Lee Mosley

      $767,498
      award amount
    • 5R01MH121402-07Department: NIH department code
      Targeted lipid nanoparticles for gene therapeutics delivery approach to eradicating HIV reservoirs

      Principal investigators: Howard E Gendelman (contact PI), Benson Edagwa, Sudipta Panja

      $649,756
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R61AI188553-02, led by Benson Edagwa; 5R01AI145542-07, led by Benson Edagwa; 5T32NS105594-09, led by Aditya N Bade and Daniel T Monaghan.

  6. Aditya N Bade

    Leads 3 awards · $1,383,502

    • 5R01DA064132-02Department: NIH department code
      Synergistic Effect of Nicotine and Antiretrovirals on Placental Development
      $711,164
      award amount
    • 5R01HD115482-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrase Inhibitors during pregnancy and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: Underlying Mechanism and Therapeutic Intervention
      $567,305
      award amount
    • 5T32NS105594-09Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimmunology of Disease Training Program

      Principal investigators: Aditya N Bade (contact PI), Daniel T Monaghan (contact PI), Howard E Gendelman

      $105,033
      award amount

  7. Natalia Aleksandr Osna

    Leads 1 award · $611,174

    • 5R01AI163042-05Department: NIH department code
      New generation of long acting nucleos(t)ides and immune stimulant for treatment of chronic hepatitis B

      Principal investigators: Natalia Aleksandr Osna (contact PI), Benson Edagwa

      $611,174
      award amount

  8. Palsamy Periyasamy

    Leads 1 award · $509,793

    • 5R01DA060753-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulation of astrocyte-specific NLRP6 inflammasome and PANoptosis in HIV Tat and methamphetamine-mediated neuroinflammation

      Principal investigators: Palsamy Periyasamy (contact PI), Susmita Sil

      $509,793
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA065476-01A1, led by Shilpa J Buch; 5R01DA062274-02, led by Shilpa J Buch.

  9. Daniel T Monaghan

    Leads 1 award · $105,033

  10. Jake Son

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH134713-05Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Trauma on the Longitudinal Development of Cognitive Control Networks in Healthy Youth
      $55,114
      award amount

  11. Seth D Springer

    Leads 1 award · $51,090

    • 5F30AG076259-06Department: NIH department code
      Aberrant cortical entrainment in biomarker-confirmed Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment
      $51,090
      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.

  • Susmita Sil

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA060755-03, led by Shilpa J Buch; 5R01DA060753-03, led by Palsamy Periyasamy

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

  • Mahesh Mohan

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA059874-02, led by Siddappa N Byrareddy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • R Lee Mosley

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS034239-31, led by Howard E Gendelman

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

  • Sudipta Panja

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH121402-07, led by Howard E Gendelman

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

  • Arpan Acharya

    Co-investigator on 1R21AG102223-01, led by Siddappa N Byrareddy

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads