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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Nutrition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$17.2M
$17,161,076
Awards
23
FY2026 NIH awards in Nutrition
Principal investigators
34
20 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
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 Nutrition row of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis

    Leads 3 awards · $4,353,109

  2. Alice S Ammerman

    Leads 4 awards · $3,225,000

    • 5U48DP006872-03Department: NIH department code
      SIP 24-003 Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN) Coordinating & Collaborating Centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      Principal investigators: Alice S Ammerman (contact PI), Alison T Brenner, Rachel Hirschey, Stephanie Brooke Wheeler

      $1,575,000
      award amount
    • 5U48DP006807-03Department: NIH department code
      DP24-004, PRC Core: Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

      Principal investigators: Alice S Ammerman (contact PI), Adam J Zolotor, Carmen D Samuel-Hodge

      $1,000,000
      award amount
    • 5U48DP006839-03Department: NIH department code
      Engaging school communities to prevent exemptions to kindergarten vaccination mandates

      Principal investigators: Alice S Ammerman (contact PI), Melissa B Gilkey

      $350,000
      award amount
    • 5U48DP006837-03Department: NIH department code
      Establishing a Collaborating Center for OACareTools PLUS (OACareTools Primary care-Led Usability & Scalability Study) and a Coordinating Center for an Arthritis Management & Wellbeing Research Network

      Principal investigators: Alice S Ammerman (contact PI), Leigh Fleming Callahan

      $300,000
      award amount

  3. Saame R Shaikh

    Leads 2 awards · $2,042,200

  4. Blake Richey Rushing

    Leads 1 award · $1,943,864

    • 4R01CA282657-03Department: NIH department code
      Creation of the Human Cancer Metabolome Atlas
      $1,943,864
      award amount

  5. Susan M. Smith

    Leads 2 awards · $1,625,628

  6. Deborah F. Tate

    Leads 1 award · $1,166,245

    Also a principal investigator on 5UG1HD107692-05, led by Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis; 3UG1HD107692-05S1, led by Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis.

  7. Ian Michael Carroll

    Leads 1 award · $1,166,245

  8. Laura E Herring

    Leads 1 award · $1,166,245

  9. Venkata Saroja Voruganti

    Leads 1 award · $1,166,245

  10. Stephanie L Martin

    Leads 2 awards · $954,220

    • 1R01HD122573-01Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing a family-centered intervention to improve the health and development of children who are HIV exposed and uninfected
      $797,615
      award amount
    • 5K01DK139408-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing a school-based obesity prevention intervention for adolescent girls
      $156,605
      award amount

  11. Kimberly Brooke Tompkins Nezami

    Leads 1 award · $738,785

    • 5R01HL178992-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing dietary adherence in a mobile behavioral weight loss intervention for adults
      $738,785
      award amount

  12. Carmen D Samuel-Hodge

    Leads 1 award · $698,195

    • 5R33HL169357-03Department: NIH department code
      FAMily-centered WEight Loss for Black Adults (FAM WEL B-ing): Optimization and Evaluation using Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)
      $698,195
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U48DP006807-03, led by Alice S Ammerman.

  13. June Stevens

    Leads 1 award · $676,761

    • 5U24HL151308-07Department: NIH department code
      Coordinating Center for the DECIPHeR Network

      Principal investigators: June Stevens (contact PI), Kimberly P Truesdale

      $676,761
      award amount

  14. Stephen D Hursting

    Leads 1 award · $656,285

  15. Carmina G Valle

    Leads 1 award · $633,163

    • 5R01CA270111-04Department: NIH department code
      Using Tailored mHealth Strategies to Promote Weight Management among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

      Principal investigators: Carmina G Valle (contact PI), Jessica Gokee Larose

      $633,163
      award amount

  16. Carol L Cheatham

    Leads 2 awards · $585,071

    • 5R33AA030066-04Department: NIH department code
      Adventures in the Design and Trial of an Innovative FASD Risk Assessment: Integrating Known Risks with New Measures of Weekly Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Maternal Mental Health, and Paternal Alcohol
      $298,070
      award amount
    • 3R33AA030066-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Adventures in the Design and Trial of an Innovative FASD Risk Assessment: Integrating Known Risks with New Measures of Weekly Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Maternal Mental Health, and Paternal Alcohol
      $287,001
      award amount

  17. Kyle S. Burger

    Leads 1 award · $566,100

    • 5R01DK133407-04Department: NIH department code
      Relation of individual differences in fMRI-Assessed Satiation Signaling to Obesity Risk and Future Weight Gain

      Principal investigators: Kyle S. Burger (contact PI), Abbie E Smith-Ryan

      $566,100
      award amount

  18. Katie A Meyer

    Leads 1 award · $529,665

    • 1R01DK143138-01A1Department: NIH department code
      DNA and metabolomic markers of diets rich in polyphenols or processed foods
      $529,665
      award amount

  19. Nipun Saini

    Leads 1 award · $223,797

    • 5R00AA028291-05Department: NIH department code
      Maternal Fetal Metabolic Disruption in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
      $223,797
      award amount

  20. Hannah Grace Petry

    Leads 1 award · $41,723

    • 5F31AA032145-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Choline's Improvement in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
      $41,723
      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.