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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$4.8M
$4,781,704
Awards
9
FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
8
7 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Dentistry row of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Gary Douglas Slade

    Leads 1 award · $1,529,558

    • 2UH3DE029169-07Department: NIH department code
      Phase II, proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial to evaluate dental caries preventive effects of fluoridated bottle water
      $1,529,558
      award amount

  2. Laura Anne Jacox

    Leads 2 awards · $1,126,717

    • 1R01DE035709-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Biological Signatures for Long COVID Development in Saliva
      $682,398
      award amount
    • 1R21DE035879-01Department: NIH department code
      Determining Microplastic Exposure from Clear Aligner Therapy: An In Vivo, Longitudinal Study in Orthodontic Patients
      $444,319
      award amount

  3. Julie Teresa Marchesan

    Leads 1 award · $731,129

    • 5R01DE032830-04Department: NIH department code
      Inflammasome regulation underlying sexual dimorphism in periodontitis
      $731,129
      award amount

  4. Lucia H Cevidanes

    Leads 1 award · $650,920

    • 5R01DE024450-12Department: NIH department code
      Integrative Predictors of Temporomandibular Degenerative Joint Disease
      $650,920
      award amount

  5. Caroline Sawicki

    Leads 1 award · $310,274

    • 1R03DE036051-01Department: NIH department code
      Bridging the Gap in Pediatric TMD and Migraine Through Multidimensional Phenotyping and Precision Pain Profiling
      $310,274
      award amount

  6. Aimin Peng

    Leads 2 awards · $263,864

    • 5R21DE034524-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the stress-specific function of replication protein A in oral squamous cell carcinoma

      Principal investigators: Aimin Peng (contact PI), Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy

      $192,865
      award amount
    • 5R01CA233037-06Department: NIH department code
      The novel role of microtubule regulators in the DNA damage response
      $70,999
      award amount

  7. Adam Lietzan

    Leads 1 award · $169,242

    • 5K08DE033494-03Department: NIH department code
      DECIPHERING MECHANISMS OF IL-37 MEDIATED CONTROL OF PERIODONTAL INFLAMMATION
      $169,242
      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.