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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$9.8M
$9,834,137
Awards
17
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
22
13 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
of 90 · 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 Pathology row of the University of Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Ivona Vasiles-Pandrea

    Leads 4 awards · $2,318,639

    • 5R01DK140931-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of a Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist administration on SIV/HIV pathogenesis and ART

      Principal investigators: Ivona Vasiles-Pandrea (contact PI), Alison Bloom Kohan

      $773,140
      award amount
    • 5R01AI179317-04Department: NIH department code
      Probing the role of adenosine pathway in SIV pathogenesis
      $768,013
      award amount
    • 5R01DK113919-08Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the Role of GI Tract Dysfunction to HIV/SIV Disease Progression

      Principal investigators: Ivona Vasiles-Pandrea (contact PI), Cristian Apetrei

      $666,186
      award amount
    • 3R01AI179317-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Probing the role of adenosine pathway in SIV pathogenesis
      $111,300
      award amount
  2. Julia K Kofler

    Leads 1 award · $1,527,160

  3. Mo Reza Ebrahimkhani

    Leads 2 awards · $1,310,409

    • 2R01HL141805-06Department: NIH department code
      Recreating Human Developmental Hematopoietic Niches for Ex Vivo Biomanufacturing of Blood Stem Cells
      $741,952
      award amount
    • 5R01DK139590-07Department: NIH department code
      Integration of Systems and Synthetic Biology to Advance Development of Human Tissues In Vitro
      $568,457
      award amount
  4. Swaminathan Smita Iyer

    Leads 1 award · $786,823

    • 5R01AI187016-03Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing CD4 T follicular helper 1 cells for HIV vaccine efficacy
      $786,823
      award amount
  5. Yuan Chang

    Leads 1 award · $738,023

    • 5R01AI177607-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism For Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Persistence
      $738,023
      award amount
  6. Theresa L. Whiteside

    Leads 1 award · $700,037

  7. Charleen T Chu

    Leads 1 award · $588,801

    • 5R01NS101628-08Department: NIH department code
      Dendrite regulation by the mitochondrial kinase PINK1: Implications for PD/LBD

      Principal investigators: Charleen T Chu (contact PI), Zachary P Wills

      $588,801
      award amount
  8. Rodrigo M Florentino

    Leads 1 award · $550,070

    • 1R01DK148457-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating ATP8B1 Deficiency Using Genetic Modifiable Patient-Derived iPSC-livers
      $550,070
      award amount
  9. Sungjin Ko

    Leads 1 award · $518,221

    • 5R01CA300059-02Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cholangiocarcinoma Development
      $518,221
      award amount
  10. Bharat Bhushan

    Leads 1 award · $415,259

    • 5R01DK135566-04Department: NIH department code
      Diverging roles of EGFR and MET in acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury
      $415,259
      award amount
  11. Christiano Alves

    Leads 1 award · $237,789

    • 7K01NS134784-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of in Vivo Base Editing as a Genetic Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
      $237,789
      award amount
  12. Vik Meadows

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 1K99DK147581-01Department: NIH department code
      Bile Duct Integrity As A Regulator of the Gut-Liver Axis
      $90,000
      award amount
  13. Tyler Yasaka

    Leads 1 award · $52,906

    • 5F30CA298277-02Department: NIH department code
      An Integrated In Silico and In Vivo Genetic Screening Approach to Identify Subtype-specific Hepatocellular Carcinoma Genetic Dependencies
      $52,906
      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.