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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$35.7M
$35,661,293
Awards
68
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
84
63 lead a grant here, 21 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill page.

Leads a grant in this department

63 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. Yevgeny Brudno

    Leads 2 awards · $3,083,607

    • 1P01CA298971-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Biomaterial-Enhanced CAR-T/NK Cell Therapies for Glioblastoma.

      Principal investigators: Benjamin G Vincent (contact PI), Gianpietro Dotti (contact PI), Kristy M Ainslie (contact PI), Shawn Hingtgen (contact PI), Yevgeny Brudno (contact PI)

      $2,554,662
      award amount
    • 5R33CA281875-04Department: NIH department code
      MASTER Scaffolds for Rapid, Single-Step Manufacture and Prototyping of CAR-T cells
      $528,945
      award amount

  2. Kristy M Ainslie

    Leads 2 awards · $3,071,168

    • 1P01CA298971-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Biomaterial-Enhanced CAR-T/NK Cell Therapies for Glioblastoma.

      Principal investigators: Benjamin G Vincent (contact PI), Gianpietro Dotti (contact PI), Kristy M Ainslie (contact PI), Shawn Hingtgen (contact PI), Yevgeny Brudno (contact PI)

      $2,554,662
      award amount
    • 5R01AI187725-02Department: NIH department code
      Biodegradable polymeric microparticles comprised of acetalated dextran induce immune tolerance
      $516,506
      award amount

  3. Shawn Hingtgen

    Leads 2 awards · $2,985,343

    • 1P01CA298971-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Biomaterial-Enhanced CAR-T/NK Cell Therapies for Glioblastoma.

      Principal investigators: Benjamin G Vincent (contact PI), Gianpietro Dotti (contact PI), Kristy M Ainslie (contact PI), Shawn Hingtgen (contact PI), Yevgeny Brudno (contact PI)

      $2,554,662
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269974-05Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing Continuous Liquid Interface 3D Printing to Improve Tumor-homing Stem Cell Therapy for Post-surgical Brain Cancer

      Principal investigators: Shawn Hingtgen (contact PI), Jillian Perry

      $430,681
      award amount

  4. Thomas L. Kash

    Leads 4 awards · $2,675,175

    • 5P60AA011605-29Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Circuit Pathogenesis of Alcohol Use Disorders

      Principal investigators: Charlotte A. Boettiger (contact PI), Clyde W Hodge (contact PI), Donita L Robinson (contact PI), Joyce Besheer (contact PI), Melissa A Herman (contact PI), Thomas L. Kash (contact PI)

      $1,749,131
      award amount
    • 5R01AA019454-15Department: NIH department code
      Extended Amygdala Regulation of Dorsal Raphe Function in Ethanol Self-Administration
      $499,436
      award amount
    • 5R01AA031450-03Department: NIH department code
      Probing Ethanol Dysregulation of Hypothalamic CRH neurons

      Principal investigators: Thomas L. Kash (contact PI), Jaideep Bains

      $314,945
      award amount
    • 3R01AA031450-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Probing Ethanol Dysregulation of Hypothalamic CRH neurons

      Principal investigators: Thomas L. Kash (contact PI), Jaideep Bains

      $111,663
      award amount

  5. Benjamin G Vincent

    Leads 1 award · $2,554,662

  6. Gianpietro Dotti

    Leads 1 award · $2,554,662

  7. Juan Song

    Leads 2 awards · $2,093,861

    • 4RF1MH132222-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and functional contribution of hypothalamic modified adult hippocampal neurogenesis
      $1,494,399
      award amount
    • 5R01AG071000-03Department: NIH department code
      Glutamatergic neural circuit modulation for treating Alzheimer’s disease
      $599,462
      award amount

  8. Juliane Nguyen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,998,017

    • 5R01DK140954-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Probiotic Yeast for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

      Principal investigators: Juliane Nguyen (contact PI), Janelle C Arthur

      $760,934
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174038-03Department: NIH department code
      Maximizing Therapeutic Accumulation and Retention for Enhanced Cardiac Repair
      $678,986
      award amount
    • 1T32TR006382-01Department: NIH department code
      CTSA Predoctoral T32 at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

      Principal investigators: Juliane Nguyen (contact PI), Edwin Kim, Harvinder Singh Gill, Yeoheung Yun

      $558,097
      award amount

  9. Samuel Lai

    Leads 4 awards · $1,914,121

    • 1R01AI193619-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Antibody-based approaches to limit PIV3 infection and disease in a human lung model

      Principal investigators: Samuel Lai (contact PI), Raymond J Pickles

      $756,988
      award amount
    • 5R01AI165853-05Department: NIH department code
      Engineered “muco-trapping” antibodies for inhaled therapy of parainfluenza and human metapneumovirus infections

      Principal investigators: Samuel Lai (contact PI), Raymond J Pickles

      $535,133
      award amount
    • 1R21AI197116-01Department: NIH department code
      Phage-mediated in situ reprogramming of the complex human IBD gut microbiome for suppressing chronic inflammation in murine experimental colitis

      Principal investigators: Samuel Lai (contact PI), Ryan B Sartor

      $427,625
      award amount
    • 5R21AI185808-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering non-replicating self-recirculating phages as platform for gene therapy of the microbiome
      $194,375
      award amount

  10. Bryan L. Roth

    Leads 3 awards · $1,803,980

    • 5R37DA045657-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic insights into LSD actions at 5-HT2A serotonin receptors
      $650,756
      award amount
    • 5R01MH112205-10Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Details of Psychoactive Drug Actions

      Principal investigators: Bryan L. Roth (contact PI), Brian K Shoichet

      $593,976
      award amount
    • 5R01DA055656-05Department: NIH department code
      STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MRG-FAMILY RECEPTORS

      Principal investigators: Bryan L. Roth (contact PI), Brian K Shoichet

      $559,248
      award amount

  11. Charlotte A. Boettiger

    Leads 1 award · $1,749,131

  12. Clyde W Hodge

    Leads 1 award · $1,749,131

  13. Donita L Robinson

    Leads 1 award · $1,749,131

  14. Joyce Besheer

    Leads 1 award · $1,749,131

  15. Melissa A Herman

    Leads 1 award · $1,749,131

  16. Elias Rosen

    Leads 1 award · $1,320,638

    • 5R01AI192048-02Department: NIH department code
      Assessing Time-to-Treatment Variability in Antiretroviral Penetration by Multimodal Imaging

      Principal investigators: Elias Rosen (contact PI), Jacob D Estes

      $1,320,638
      award amount

  17. Konstantin Popov

    Leads 1 award · $1,250,191

  18. Michael James Emanuele

    Leads 2 awards · $1,121,276

    • 5R35GM153250-03Department: NIH department code
      Proteostasis signaling in cell cycle control
      $580,605
      award amount
    • 5T32GM135095-07Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacological Sciences Training Program

      Principal investigators: Michael James Emanuele (contact PI), Joseph Mauro Calabrese

      $540,671
      award amount

  19. Eric Bachelder

    Leads 2 awards · $1,001,174

    • 1R01AI203505-01Department: NIH department code
      Intravenous administered acetalated dextran microparticles for the treatment of multiple sclerosis
      $530,480
      award amount
    • 1R01CA303324-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Nano Electrospun Polymeric Biomaterial Scaffold for GBM Interstitial Immunotherapy
      $470,694
      award amount

  20. Leon Garland Coleman

    Leads 2 awards · $947,607

    • 1R01AA033526-01Department: NIH department code
      Microglia as novel therapeutic targets to treat negative affect in Alcohol Use Disorder
      $636,607
      award amount
    • 5U54AA030463-05Department: NIH department code
      2/2 Partnerships to Enhance Alcohol Research Across NCCU and UNC (PEAR-NC)

      Principal investigators: Fulton T Crews (contact PI), Kevin Peter Williams (contact PI), Leon Garland Coleman (contact PI), Simon Alexander Marshall (contact PI), Xiaohe Yang (contact PI)

      $311,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25NS130653-03, led by Jonathan C. Schisler.

  21. Jonathan C. Schisler

    Leads 2 awards · $908,466

  22. Klaus M. Hahn

    Leads 1 award · $810,270

    • 5R35GM122596-10Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting signaling in vivo via precise control and visualization of protein activity
      $810,270
      award amount

  23. Alexander Tropsha

    Leads 1 award · $785,558

    • 5U24ES035214-05Department: NIH department code
      Supporting Biomedical Discovery with the ROBOKOP Graph Knowledgebase.

      Principal investigators: Alexander Tropsha (contact PI), Christopher Bizon

      $785,558
      award amount

  24. Kim L.r. Brouwer

    Leads 1 award · $772,643

    • 2T32GM086330-16Department: NIH department code
      UNC-Duke Collaborative Clinical Pharmacology Postdoctoral Training Program

      Principal investigators: Kim L.r. Brouwer (contact PI), Daniel Gonzalez, Paul B Watkins

      $772,643
      award amount

  25. Paul B Watkins

    Leads 1 award · $763,647

    • 1R01DK142742-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Genetic determinants of AAV liver transduction and toxicity

      Principal investigators: Paul B Watkins (contact PI), Chengwen Li, William Valdar

      $763,647
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32GM086330-16, led by Kim L.r. Brouwer.

  26. Lauren L Haar

    Leads 1 award · $751,736

    • 5R01HL176666-02Department: NIH department code
      Assembly, Dosimetry, and Assessment of a Platform Technology for the Delivery of Thrombolytics
      $751,736
      award amount

  27. Jessica Jillian Walsh

    Leads 1 award · $750,391

    • 5R01MH136266-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms underlying sustained enhancement of sociability
      $750,391
      award amount

  28. Betsy Lynn Sleath

    Leads 1 award · $731,362

    • 1R01MD020819-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Using a pre-visit asthma question prompt list/video intervention to increase Hispanic youth involvement during visits and improve patient outcomes
      $731,362
      award amount

  29. Henrik G. Dohlman

    Leads 1 award · $709,031

    • 2R35GM118105-11Department: NIH department code
      Negative and positive feedback in cell signaling
      $709,031
      award amount

  30. Joseph Mauro Calabrese

    Leads 1 award · $624,197

    • 5R35GM153293-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of gene regulation by long noncoding RNAs
      $624,197
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM135095-07, led by Michael James Emanuele.

  31. Konstantin Lukianov

    Leads 1 award · $472,658

    • 1R21AG103487-01Department: NIH department code
      Live-cell imaging of biological age
      $472,658
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21CA305169-01A1, led by Samantha Gail Pattenden.

  32. Yinglong Miao

    Leads 1 award · $470,963

    • 1R35GM163770-01Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Sampling of Intracellular Protein Interactions with G-Protein-Coupled Receptors
      $470,963
      award amount

  33. Timothy C Elston

    Leads 1 award · $466,907

    • 5R35GM127145-09Department: NIH department code
      Mathematical modeling of cellular signaling systems
      $466,907
      award amount

  34. Andrew L Lee

    Leads 1 award · $462,164

    • 5R35GM144348-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and dynamics of allosteric function in proteins
      $462,164
      award amount

  35. Daniel Issac Dominguez

    Leads 1 award · $461,862

    • 2R35GM142864-06Department: NIH department code
      Protein Disorder as a Modifier of RNA Binding and Regulation
      $461,862
      award amount

  36. Robert McGinty

    Leads 1 award · $461,304

    • 5R35GM133498-08Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Chromatin Recognition
      $461,304
      award amount

  37. Nicholas Gene Brown

    Leads 1 award · $454,118

    • 5R35GM128855-09Department: NIH department code
      Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Silencing
      $454,118
      award amount

  38. John E Sondek

    Leads 1 award · $427,684

    • 5R35GM149299-04Department: NIH department code
      Phospholipase C Isozymes
      $427,684
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AG098153-01, led by Konstantin Popov.

  39. Ryan Gumpper

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R35GM165652-01Department: NIH department code
      The molecular characterization of serotonin-2C isoforms and their signaling patterns
      $427,625
      award amount

  40. Rihe Liu

    Leads 1 award · $399,829

    • 1R21CA314402-01Department: NIH department code
      Dual mRNA Therapeutics for Liver Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
      $399,829
      award amount

  41. Albert A Bowers

    Leads 1 award · $389,341

    • 5R35GM125005-10Department: NIH department code
      Chemoenzymatic Synthesis, Mode of Action and Evolution of Natural Product-based Macrocycles
      $389,341
      award amount

  42. Marina Sokolsky-Papkov

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01NS125073-05Department: NIH department code
      Nanoformulated small molecule immunotherapy for SHH medulloblastoma
      $388,750
      award amount

  43. Samantha Gail Pattenden

    Leads 1 award · $388,439

    • 1R21CA305169-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of genetically encoded fluorescent reporters to detect a pediatric cancer biomarker in living cells

      Principal investigators: Samantha Gail Pattenden (contact PI), Konstantin Lukianov

      $388,439
      award amount

  44. Owen S Fenton

    Leads 1 award · $381,995

    • 5R35GM157060-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating and Manipulating Cells in Low Oxygen Environments Using Lipid Nanoparticles
      $381,995
      award amount

  45. Jeffrey Aube

    Leads 1 award · $362,785

    • 2T32GM135122-06Department: NIH department code
      UNC Chemical Biology Interface Training Program
      $362,785
      award amount

  46. Adam Christopher Palmer

    Leads 1 award · $344,435

    • 5R01CA279968-03Department: NIH department code
      Modeling and analysis of curative combination therapy for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
      $344,435
      award amount

  47. Fulton T Crews

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

  48. Kevin Peter Williams

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

  49. Simon Alexander Marshall

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

  50. Xiaohe Yang

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

  51. Laura Brockway Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $248,817

    • 5R00AA030821-04Department: NIH department code
      RNA biomarkers for alcohol use disorder
      $248,817
      award amount

  52. Channing J. Der

    Leads 1 award · $208,732

  53. Anthony M Downs

    Leads 1 award · $184,706

    • 5K01DA061050-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of fentanyl consumption on noradrenergic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala
      $184,706
      award amount

  54. Brianna Elyse George

    Leads 1 award · $88,319

    • 5K00AA031604-04Department: NIH department code
      Early-Life Stress Drives Increased Heroin Vulnerability: Role of D3 Receptors
      $88,319
      award amount

  55. Jonathan M Ellis

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32GM157944-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering and application of modular chimeric tRNA synthetases in mRNA display
      $76,780
      award amount

  56. Kalynn Jane Van Voorhies

    Leads 1 award · $41,658

    • 1F31AA032987-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Role of Anterior Insular Cortex Parvalbumin-Positive Interneuron Function in Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Drinking
      $41,658
      award amount

  57. Adam Funk

    Leads 1 award · $41,340

    • 1F31AI203122-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of Chemical Tools to Probe the Role of CHD1 in Viral Proliferation
      $41,340
      award amount

  58. Sarah Ackermann

    Leads 1 award · $41,340

    • 1F31CA318096-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidation and targeting of RAS inhibitor induced metabolic reprogramming for the treatment of pancreatic cancer
      $41,340
      award amount

  59. Megan C. Roberts

    Leads 1 award · $41,300

    • 2R13CA261073-05Department: NIH department code
      Precision Public Health Network's Annual Research Symposium

      Principal investigators: Megan C. Roberts (contact PI), Caitlin Gloeckner Allen

      $41,300
      award amount

  60. Elizabeth Abrash

    Leads 1 award · $41,204

    • 5F31HD114456-02Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Repression: Recruitment of epigenetic silencers by RNA binding proteins and long non-coding RNAs
      $41,204
      award amount

  61. Quinn Elise Eberhard

    Leads 1 award · $41,204

    • 5F31HG014413-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational tools to study relationships between sequence, structure, and function in lncRNAs
      $41,204
      award amount

  62. Ryan Robb

    Leads 1 award · $41,204

    • 5F31CA284869-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic examination and inhibitor targeting of nutrient scavenging for the treatment of pancreatic cancer
      $41,204
      award amount

  63. Tiffany Andrea Riascos Hurtado

    Leads 1 award · $39,695

    • 1F31HL188946-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of TWIST1 during smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation
      $39,695
      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.