FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biology at University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
- 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 Biology row of the University of Pittsburgh page.
Leads a grant in this department
17 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Sarah Jane Hainer
Leads 2 awards · $1,221,835
- 1R01DK145577-01A1Department: NIH department codeDissecting functional decompensation of end-stage liver disease and the mechanism and impact of transcription factors on long-term functional reprogramming
Principal investigators: Sarah Jane Hainer (contact PI), Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Deepak Nagrath, Drew Weissman
$814,500award amount - 5R35GM133732-08Department: NIH department codeChromatin-mediated mechanisms of transcription regulation in ES cells$407,335award amount
Anne E Carlson
Leads 2 awards · $828,052
- 5R01HD110439-03Department: NIH department codeMolecular Determinants of Zinc Regulation of Mammalian Sperm$440,877award amount
- 5R35GM153270-03Department: NIH department codePhysiologic mechanisms of ion channel regulation$387,175award amount
Kirill Kiselyov
Leads 1 award · $675,067
- 5R01AG083877-04Department: NIH department codeRole of mitochondrial GDAP1 in Alzheimer's disease
Principal investigators: Kirill Kiselyov (contact PI), Amantha Thathiah, Andrew Paul Vandemark
$675,067award amount
Craig Kaplan
Leads 1 award · $667,800
- 5R35GM144116-05Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of RNA Polymerase II transcription$667,800award amount
Jon P Boyle
Leads 1 award · $560,907
- 5R01HD106247-05Department: NIH department codePlacental resistance and response to the teratogenic pathogen Toxoplasma gondii
Principal investigators: Jon P Boyle (contact PI), Carolyn B Coyne
$560,907award amount
Nathaniel L Clark
Leads 1 award · $558,556
- 5R01HG009299-09Department: NIH department codeTitle: Functional Annotation of Genomes via Phenotypic Convergence within Large Multi-species Alignments
Principal investigators: Nathaniel L Clark (contact PI), Maria D Chikina
$558,556award amount
Graham F. Hatfull
Leads 1 award · $482,168
- 5R35GM131729-08Department: NIH department codeBacteriophage diversity, dynamics, function, and exploitation$482,168award amount
Karen M Arndt
Leads 1 award · $463,937
- 2R35GM141964-06Department: NIH department codeMechanisms that Couple Chromatin Modifications to Transcription$463,937award amount
Miler T. S. Lee
Leads 1 award · $425,953
- 2R35GM137973-06Department: NIH department codeTranscriptome reprogramming in the early embryo$425,953award amount
Laty Adriella Cahoon
Leads 1 award · $401,939
- 5R35GM159731-02Department: NIH department codeGram-positive secretion chaperone-client interactions$401,939award amount
Jeffrey L. Brodsky
Leads 1 award · $394,966
- 5R35GM131732-08Department: NIH department codeER and post-ER quality control of integral membrane proteins$394,966award amount
Andrea J. Berman
Leads 1 award · $385,431
- 5R35GM145257-05Department: NIH department codeTranslation regulation by molecular switch RNA-binding protein LARP1$385,431award amount
Allyson F. O'Donnell
Leads 1 award · $376,902
- 5R35GM156381-02Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of alpha-arrestin-mediated protein trafficking$376,902award amount
Jacob D Durrant
Leads 1 award · $376,228
- 5R35GM152006-03Department: NIH department codeDeveloping and Applying Accessible Computational Technologies for the Design of Small-Molecule Ligands$376,228award amount
Tera Catherine Levin
Leads 1 award · $376,200
- 5R35GM150681-04Department: NIH department codeThe origins and evolution of eukaryotic antibacterial defenses$376,200award amount
Kotdaji Ha
Leads 1 award · $248,999
- 4R00DK131361-03Department: NIH department codeDeciphering polycystin-dependent electric signaling of primary cilia in the renal system$248,999award amount
James M Pipas
Leads 1 award · $238,500
- 1R21AI193361-01A1Department: NIH department codeRole of the BKV polyomavirus large T antigen IDR in productive infection.$238,500award 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.
Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez
Co-investigator on 1R01DK145577-01A1, led by Sarah Jane Hainer
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Pittsburgh · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
Deepak Nagrath
Co-investigator on 1R01DK145577-01A1, led by Sarah Jane Hainer
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Michigan · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)
Drew Weissman
Co-investigator on 1R01DK145577-01A1, led by Sarah Jane Hainer
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Pennsylvania · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Amantha Thathiah
Co-investigator on 5R01AG083877-04, led by Kirill Kiselyov
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Pittsburgh · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
Andrew Paul Vandemark
Co-investigator on 5R01AG083877-04, led by Kirill Kiselyov
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- University of Pittsburgh · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Carolyn B Coyne
Co-investigator on 5R01HD106247-05, led by Jon P Boyle
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- Duke University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Maria D Chikina
Co-investigator on 5R01HG009299-09, led by Nathaniel L Clark
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.