FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Nutrition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
- 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
19 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis
Leads 3 awards · $4,353,109
- 5UG1HD107692-05Department: NIH department codeNutrition for Precision Health: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Clinical Center
Principal investigators: Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Deborah F. Tate
$2,249,387award amount - 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount - 3UG1HD107692-05S1Department: NIH department codeIncreasing Enrollment for the Nutrition for Precision Health Study at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Clinical Center
Principal investigators: Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Deborah F. Tate
$937,477award amount
Saame R Shaikh
Leads 2 awards · $2,042,200
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount - 5U24DK132715-05Department: NIH department codeSupporting, Promoting, and Launching the Expansion of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity Researchers in North Carolina
Principal investigators: Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Kimberly P Truesdale, Marc D Cook
$875,955award amount
Blake Richey Rushing
Leads 1 award · $1,943,864
- 4R01CA282657-03Department: NIH department codeCreation of the Human Cancer Metabolome Atlas$1,943,864award amount
Susan M. Smith
Leads 2 awards · $1,625,628
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount - 5R01AA031262-03Department: NIH department codeCholine-Related Polymorphisms in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Principal investigators: Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Sandra M Mooney
$459,383award amount
Deborah F. Tate
Leads 1 award · $1,166,245
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5UG1HD107692-05, led by Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis; 3UG1HD107692-05S1, led by Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis.
Ian Michael Carroll
Leads 1 award · $1,166,245
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount
Laura E Herring
Leads 1 award · $1,166,245
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount
Venkata Saroja Voruganti
Leads 1 award · $1,166,245
- 2P30DK056350-26Department: NIH department codeNutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Principal investigators: Deborah F. Tate (contact PI), Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis (contact PI), Ian Michael Carroll (contact PI), Laura E Herring (contact PI), Saame R Shaikh (contact PI), Susan M. Smith (contact PI), Venkata Saroja Voruganti (contact PI)
$1,166,245award amount
Stephanie L Martin
Leads 2 awards · $954,220
- 1R01HD122573-01Department: NIH department codeOptimizing a family-centered intervention to improve the health and development of children who are HIV exposed and uninfected$797,615award amount
- 5K01DK139408-02Department: NIH department codeOptimizing a school-based obesity prevention intervention for adolescent girls$156,605award amount
Kimberly Brooke Tompkins Nezami
Leads 1 award · $738,785
- 5R01HL178992-02Department: NIH department codeOptimizing dietary adherence in a mobile behavioral weight loss intervention for adults$738,785award amount
Carmen D Samuel-Hodge
Leads 1 award · $698,195
- 5R33HL169357-03Department: NIH department codeFAMily-centered WEight Loss for Black Adults (FAM WEL B-ing): Optimization and Evaluation using Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)$698,195award amount
June Stevens
Leads 1 award · $676,761
- 5U24HL151308-07Department: NIH department codeCoordinating Center for the DECIPHeR Network
Principal investigators: June Stevens (contact PI), Kimberly P Truesdale
$676,761award amount
Stephen D Hursting
Leads 1 award · $656,285
- 1R01CA296816-01A1Department: NIH department codeIncretin Mimetics for Intercepting Obesity-Related Cancers: Effects and Underlying Mechanisms
Principal investigators: Stephen D Hursting (contact PI), Anna Ibele, Mary Christine Playdon, Victoria Lin Bae-Jump
$656,285award amount
Carmina G Valle
Leads 1 award · $633,163
- 5R01CA270111-04Department: NIH department codeUsing Tailored mHealth Strategies to Promote Weight Management among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
Principal investigators: Carmina G Valle (contact PI), Jessica Gokee Larose
$633,163award amount
Carol L Cheatham
Leads 2 awards · $585,071
- 5R33AA030066-04Department: NIH department codeAdventures 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$298,070award amount
- 3R33AA030066-04S1Department: NIH department codeAdventures 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$287,001award amount
Kyle S. Burger
Leads 1 award · $566,100
- 5R01DK133407-04Department: NIH department codeRelation 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
$566,100award amount
Katie A Meyer
Leads 1 award · $529,665
- 1R01DK143138-01A1Department: NIH department codeDNA and metabolomic markers of diets rich in polyphenols or processed foods$529,665award amount
Nipun Saini
Leads 1 award · $223,797
- 5R00AA028291-05Department: NIH department codeMaternal Fetal Metabolic Disruption in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure$223,797award amount
Hannah Grace Petry
Leads 1 award · $41,723
- 5F31AA032145-02Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of Choline's Improvement in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure$41,723award 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.
Kimberly P Truesdale
Co-investigator on 5U24DK132715-05, led by Saame R Shaikh; 5U24HL151308-07, led by June Stevens
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Marc D Cook
Co-investigator on 5U24DK132715-05, led by Saame R Shaikh
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- North Carolina Agri & Tech St Univ (no department on record, 1 award)
Anna Ibele
Co-investigator on 1R01CA296816-01A1, led by Stephen D Hursting
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Mary Christine Playdon
Co-investigator on 1R01CA296816-01A1, led by Stephen D Hursting
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Utah · Nutrition (NIH department code, 3 awards)
- University of Utah · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
Victoria Lin Bae-Jump
Co-investigator on 1R01CA296816-01A1, led by Stephen D Hursting
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Jessica Gokee Larose
Co-investigator on 5R01CA270111-04, led by Carmina G Valle
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Virginia Commonwealth University · Family Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
- Virginia Commonwealth University · Social Sciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
Abbie E Smith-Ryan
Co-investigator on 5R01DK133407-04, led by Kyle S. Burger
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Sandra M Mooney
Co-investigator on 5R01AA031262-03, led by Susan M. Smith
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Nutrition (NIH department code, 1 award)