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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Public Health at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$44.7M
$44,678,408
Awards
61
FY2026 NIH awards in Public Health
Principal investigators
86
56 lead a grant here, 30 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
of 126 · 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 Public Health row of the University of Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

56 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. Alicia Colvin

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  2. Arun S Karlamangla

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  3. Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  4. Daniel S McConnell

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  5. Maria Mori Brooks

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24DK128125-06, led by Steven H. Belle.

  6. Rebecca C Thurston

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  7. Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  8. Sybil L Crawford

    Leads 1 award · $9,127,718

  9. Stephen R Wisniewski

    Leads 4 awards · $4,275,923

    • 2UG1EY031651-06Department: NIH department code
      Clarifying the Optimal Application of SLT Therapy (COAST) Trial

      Principal investigators: Stephen R Wisniewski (contact PI), Balasubramani K Goundappa

      $3,334,327
      award amount
    • 5U24HL161359-04Department: NIH department code
      2/2 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trazodone Effects on Sleep and Blood Pressure in Insomnia Phenotypes Based on Objective Sleep Duration: A Sequential Cohort/Randomized Controlled Trial

      Principal investigators: Stephen R Wisniewski (contact PI), Wendy C King

      $455,087
      award amount
    • 5U24HL161360-05Department: NIH department code
      2/2 Percutaneous Intervention Versus Observational Trial of Arterial ductus management in Low-weight infants (PIVOTAL) Data Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Stephen R Wisniewski (contact PI), Wendy C King

      $450,629
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY031651-06S1Department: NIH department code
      Clarifying the Optimal Application of SLT Therapy (COAST) Trial

      Principal investigators: Stephen R Wisniewski (contact PI), Balasubramani K Goundappa

      $35,880
      award amount

  10. Dara Daneen Mendez

    Leads 2 awards · $3,284,625

  11. Akira Sekikawa

    Leads 4 awards · $3,185,991

    • 5R01AG074971-05Department: NIH department code
      Arterial Stiffness, Cognition, and Equol (ACE)
      $1,695,875
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169332-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrative Model of Metabolomics, Equol and Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (IMMEA)

      Principal investigators: Akira Sekikawa (contact PI), Panagiotis V Benos

      $656,467
      award amount
    • 5T32HL083825-18Department: NIH department code
      Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program
      $436,348
      award amount
    • 3R01AG074971-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Arterial Stiffness, Cognition, and Equol (ACE)
      $397,301
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AR085928-01A1, led by Jane Ann Cauley.

  12. Velpandi Ayyavoo

    Leads 2 awards · $2,851,621

    • 4RF1MH136952-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the mechanisms involved in HIV-1 CNS latency
      $2,169,326
      award amount
    • 1R01NS151863-01Department: NIH department code
      HIV mediated dysregulation of the CNS complement system: A Mechanistic Link Between Chronic Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Dysfunction
      $682,295
      award amount

  13. Ashley Hill

    Leads 1 award · $2,548,727

  14. Catherine L Haggerty

    Leads 1 award · $2,548,727

  15. Stacy Bartlett

    Leads 1 award · $2,548,727

  16. Julie Marie Donohue

    Leads 1 award · $2,208,729

    • 5RM1DA059365-04Department: NIH department code
      Improving quality measurement for opioid use disorder treatment using a multi-state Medicaid research network

      Principal investigators: Julie Marie Donohue (contact PI), Andrew James Barnes

      $2,208,729
      award amount

  17. Iva Miljkovic

    Leads 2 awards · $1,870,068

    • 4R01AG077474-02Department: NIH department code
      Myosteatosis, Cognition and Blood Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in Persons of African Ancestry

      Principal investigators: Iva Miljkovic (contact PI), Caterina Rosano

      $1,257,655
      award amount
    • 5R01AG074956-04Department: NIH department code
      The Study of Muscle and Physical Performance in African Caribbeans.
      $612,413
      award amount

  18. Tamara Dubowitz

    Leads 1 award · $1,540,838

    • 5R01AG072652-05Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal Examination of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Cognitive Aging, and Alzheimer's Disease Risk in Disinvested, African American Neighborhoods

      Principal investigators: Tamara Dubowitz (contact PI), Andrea L Rosso, Wendy M Troxel

      $1,540,838
      award amount

  19. Danielle M Tufts

    Leads 2 awards · $918,141

    • 1R01AI198297-01Department: NIH department code
      Borrelia burgdorferi genotypic diversity, pathogenesis, and host cellular responses
      $715,313
      award amount
    • 5R21AI185273-02Department: NIH department code
      Host heterogeneity affects susceptibility of Babesia microti infection using vector-mediated transmission
      $202,828
      award amount

  20. Jane Ann Cauley

    Leads 2 awards · $858,705

    • 5R01AG071592-05Department: NIH department code
      Sleep, Falls and Fractures in men and women: Role of nocturnal hypoxia
      $440,782
      award amount
    • 1R01AR085928-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Equol, the most bioactive soy isoflavone, on bone microarchitecture, density, strength and turnover

      Principal investigators: Jane Ann Cauley (contact PI), Akira Sekikawa

      $417,923
      award amount

  21. Tina Costacou

    Leads 1 award · $812,862

  22. Steven H. Belle

    Leads 1 award · $750,000

    • 5U24DK128125-06Department: NIH department code
      The Physiology of the Weight Reduced State Data Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Steven H. Belle (contact PI), Maria Mori Brooks

      $750,000
      award amount

  23. Qiong Wu

    Leads 1 award · $739,727

    • 1R01MH143752-01Department: NIH department code
      Federated Statistical Harmonization and Multivariate Modeling of Brain Aging Trajectories in Severe Mental Diseases
      $739,727
      award amount

  24. Radosveta Koldamova

    Leads 1 award · $694,362

    • 5R01AG077636-05Department: NIH department code
      The interplay between Tau and ncRNAs – genomic and epigenomic clues to early AD pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Radosveta Koldamova (contact PI), Iliya Lefterov

      $694,362
      award amount

  25. Robert W.s. Coulter

    Leads 1 award · $683,231

    • 5R01AA030017-04Department: NIH department code
      A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Game-Based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use among Youth

      Principal investigators: Robert W.s. Coulter (contact PI), James Erin Egan

      $683,231
      award amount

  26. Valerian E Kagan

    Leads 1 award · $675,682

  27. Coleman Drake

    Leads 1 award · $649,620

    • 1R01CA306909-01Department: NIH department code
      Medicare Advantage and cancer care for older adults

      Principal investigators: Coleman Drake (contact PI), Lindsay Marie Sabik

      $649,620
      award amount

  28. Lisa M Bodnar

    Leads 1 award · $647,009

    • 5R01HL174652-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying optimal dietary patterns for postpartum cardiovascular disease prevention

      Principal investigators: Lisa M Bodnar (contact PI), Ashley Isaac Naimi

      $647,009
      award amount

  29. Sally E Wenzel

    Leads 1 award · $640,340

    • 2R01AI145406-05Department: NIH department code
      Epithelial cell fate in asthma: Ferroptotic driven mitochondrial reprogramming and vitamin E treatment
      $640,340
      award amount

  30. Berthony Deslouches

    Leads 1 award · $626,415

    • 5R01AI172861-04Department: NIH department code
      Structural determinants of activity and mechanism of cationic peptide antibiotic activity against colistin-resistant bacteria
      $626,415
      award amount

  31. Kar-Hai Chu

    Leads 1 award · $619,474

    • 5R01HD110428-03Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Adolescent Health Care Decision-Making
      $619,474
      award amount

  32. Jaime Elizabeth Sidani

    Leads 1 award · $587,664

    • 5R01MD018543-05Department: NIH department code
      Nicotine and Tobacco Messaging on Youth-Oriented Social Media Platforms
      $587,664
      award amount

  33. Marquis S Hawkins

    Leads 1 award · $574,468

    • 5R01HL176713-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Maternal Health: Assessing Sleep-Based Strategy Enhancement of Diet, Physical Activity and Self-Regulation Interventions in Perinatal Health
      $574,468
      award amount

  34. Lee H Harrison

    Leads 4 awards · $574,093

    • 3D43TW011255-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Southern African-Pittsburgh Public Health Genomic Epidemiology Training Program (SAPPHGenE)

      Principal investigators: Lee H Harrison (contact PI), Anne Von Gottberg

      $165,776
      award amount
    • 3D43TW011827-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Pitt-Mozambique Training Program (Pitt-MozHRTP) in SARS-CoV-2, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes in People with HIV

      Principal investigators: Lee H Harrison (contact PI), Edna Viegas, Jean Bisimwa Nachega

      $157,225
      award amount
    • 5D43TW011827-05Department: NIH department code
      Pitt-Mozambique Training Program (Pitt-MozHRTP) in SARS-CoV-2, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes in People with HIV

      Principal investigators: Lee H Harrison (contact PI), Edna Viegas, Jean Bisimwa Nachega

      $130,333
      award amount
    • 5D43TW011255-07Department: NIH department code
      Southern African-Pittsburgh Public Health Genomic Epidemiology Training Program (SAPPHGenE)

      Principal investigators: Lee H Harrison (contact PI), Anne Von Gottberg

      $120,759
      award amount

  35. Joshua T. Mattila

    Leads 1 award · $496,779

  36. Emily F Dauria

    Leads 1 award · $476,174

    • 5U24DA060618-03Department: NIH department code
      The INTERACT ( Using DesIgN jusTicE to impRove cArCeral health ouTcomes) Center

      Principal investigators: Emily F Dauria (contact PI), Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein

      $476,174
      award amount

  37. Wan-Yee Tang

    Leads 1 award · $462,305

    • 5R01ES034760-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Maternal Arsenic Exposure on Offspring's Epigenetic Reprogramming of Allergic Airway Disease
      $462,305
      award amount

  38. Christina Furber Mair

    Leads 1 award · $458,281

    • 5R01AA029379-05Department: NIH department code
      Collaborator-designed agent-based models to inform alcohol-involved sexual violence prevention on college campuses.
      $458,281
      award amount

  39. Rachel Grace Miller

    Leads 1 award · $327,064

    • 5R01HL161879-05Department: NIH department code
      Examining Susceptibility and Resistance Phenotypes to Enhance Understanding of the Genetic Basis of Major Coronary Artery Disease in Type 1 Diabetes
      $327,064
      award amount

  40. Caterina Rosano

    Leads 1 award · $294,468

    • 5T32AG055381-09Department: NIH department code
      Population Neuroscience of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (PNA)

      Principal investigators: Caterina Rosano (contact PI), Andrea L Rosso

      $294,468
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01AG077474-02, led by Iva Miljkovic.

  41. Lauren C. Zalla

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AI181608-03Department: NIH department code
      The Neighborhood Context, Economics, and Health Outcomes among People with HIV
      $249,000
      award amount

  42. Rebecca Keogh

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AI180373-03Department: NIH department code
      The Diabetic Wound Environment Shapes Group B Streptococcal Pathogenesis
      $249,000
      award amount

  43. Travis Robert Moore

    Leads 1 award · $248,858

    • 4R00HD109456-03Department: NIH department code
      Feasibility of Network Interventions to Facilitate Community Coalition Adoption of Evidence-Based Strategies for Child Obesity Prevention
      $248,858
      award amount

  44. Natalie Riva Smith

    Leads 1 award · $243,050

    • 5R00CA277135-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing and evaluating a decision support tool to disseminate tobacco control research and inform policy implementation
      $243,050
      award amount

  45. Jian-Min Yuan

    Leads 1 award · $211,593

    • 5T32CA186873-12Department: NIH department code
      Translational Research Training in Cancer Prevention and Control

      Principal investigators: Jian-Min Yuan (contact PI), Kathryn H. Schmitz

      $211,593
      award amount

  46. Toan Ha

    Leads 2 awards · $206,326

  47. James Travis Donahoe

    Leads 1 award · $185,571

    • 1K01DA062902-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Rising Overdose Mortality in Individuals with Low Socioeconomic Status
      $185,571
      award amount

  48. Priscila Mayrelle Da Silva Castanha

    Leads 1 award · $184,000

    • 1R21AI192883-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining Human Skin Immunity to Culicoides Probing and Oropouche Virus Infection
      $184,000
      award amount

  49. Sara Elizabeth Baumann

    Leads 1 award · $159,223

    • 5K01TW012424-04Department: NIH department code
      Improving Menstrual Health Among Women and Girls Using Community Engaged Intervention Development in Nepal
      $159,223
      award amount

  50. Andrea Corrie Kozai

    Leads 1 award · $141,178

    • 1K01HL188214-01Department: NIH department code
      Maternal midlife vascular pathophysiology following pregnancy: impact of placental health and function
      $141,178
      award amount

  51. Jacqueline Ellison

    Leads 1 award · $131,679

    • 5K01MD020010-03Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating Reproductive Health Policy in Medicaid Populations: Application of Novel Methods for Heterogenous Treatment Effect Estimation
      $131,679
      award amount

  52. Alexander Sundermann

    Leads 1 award · $128,655

    • 5K01AI190052-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Surveillance Methods for Genomic Epidemiology in Healthcare
      $128,655
      award amount

  53. C. Elizabeth Shaaban

    Leads 1 award · $125,928

    • 5K01AG071849-05Department: NIH department code
      Population neuroscience of sex differences in the Alzheimer's disease biomarker cascade: The role of cerebral small vessel disease
      $125,928
      award amount

  54. Megan Michelle Marron

    Leads 1 award · $125,928

    • 5K01AG075143-05Department: NIH department code
      Application of plasma lipidomics to identify novel biomarkers of muscle and hepatic adiposity in population-based cohorts of older Black Caribbeans, Black Americans, and White Americans
      $125,928
      award amount

  55. Samaneh Farsijani

    Leads 1 award · $125,928

    • 5K01AG071855-05Department: NIH department code
      The relationship between protein intake, gut microbiome, inflammaging and loss of mobility in older adults
      $125,928
      award amount

  56. Kassandra Jean Baron

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31HL184394-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating mechanisms regulating Treg tissue responses driven by IL-33 in the lung
      $50,114
      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.

  • Carol A. Derby

    Co-investigator on 2U19AG063720-05A1, led by Alicia Colvin and Arun S Karlamangla and Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez and Daniel S McConnell and Maria Mori Brooks and Rebecca C Thurston and Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie and Sybil L Crawford

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Imke Janssen

    Co-investigator on 2U19AG063720-05A1, led by Alicia Colvin and Arun S Karlamangla and Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez and Daniel S McConnell and Maria Mori Brooks and Rebecca C Thurston and Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie and Sybil L Crawford

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • L Elaine Waetjen

    Co-investigator on 2U19AG063720-05A1, led by Alicia Colvin and Arun S Karlamangla and Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez and Daniel S McConnell and Maria Mori Brooks and Rebecca C Thurston and Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie and Sybil L Crawford

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Monique Marie Hedderson

    Co-investigator on 2U19AG063720-05A1, led by Alicia Colvin and Arun S Karlamangla and Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez and Daniel S McConnell and Maria Mori Brooks and Rebecca C Thurston and Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie and Sybil L Crawford

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Balasubramani K Goundappa

    Co-investigator on 2UG1EY031651-06, led by Stephen R Wisniewski; 3UG1EY031651-06S1, led by Stephen R Wisniewski

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Hyagriv N Simhan

    Co-investigator on 5U54HD113030-03, led by Ashley Hill and Catherine L Haggerty and Dara Daneen Mendez and Stacy Bartlett

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Mehret Birru Talabi

    Co-investigator on 5U54HD113030-03, led by Ashley Hill and Catherine L Haggerty and Dara Daneen Mendez and Stacy Bartlett

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Andrew James Barnes

    Co-investigator on 5RM1DA059365-04, led by Julie Marie Donohue

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Andrea L Rosso

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG072652-05, led by Tamara Dubowitz; 5T32AG055381-09, led by Caterina Rosano

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Wendy M Troxel

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG072652-05, led by Tamara Dubowitz

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Panagiotis V Benos

    Co-investigator on 1R01DK143566-01A1, led by Tina Costacou; 5R01HL169332-03, led by Akira Sekikawa

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Wendy C King

    Co-investigator on 5U24HL161359-04, led by Stephen R Wisniewski; 5U24HL161360-05, led by Stephen R Wisniewski

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Michael L Merchant

    Co-investigator on 1R01DK143566-01A1, led by Tina Costacou

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Marian Patricia Jarlenski

    Co-investigator on 5R01NR020670-05, led by Dara Daneen Mendez

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Iliya Lefterov

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG077636-05, led by Radosveta Koldamova

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • James Erin Egan

    Co-investigator on 5R01AA030017-04, led by Robert W.s. Coulter

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Hülya Bayir

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL174611-03, led by Valerian E Kagan

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Miriam L Greenberg

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL174611-03, led by Valerian E Kagan

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Lindsay Marie Sabik

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA306909-01, led by Coleman Drake

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Ashley Isaac Naimi

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL174652-03, led by Lisa M Bodnar

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Bryan David Bryson

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI164970-05, led by Joshua T. Mattila

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Cory Michael Robinson

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI164970-05, led by Joshua T. Mattila

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein

    Co-investigator on 5U24DA060618-03, led by Emily F Dauria

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Edna Viegas

    Co-investigator on 3D43TW011827-05S1, led by Lee H Harrison; 5D43TW011827-05, led by Lee H Harrison

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Jean Bisimwa Nachega

    Co-investigator on 3D43TW011827-05S1, led by Lee H Harrison; 5D43TW011827-05, led by Lee H Harrison

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Anne Von Gottberg

    Co-investigator on 3D43TW011255-07S1, led by Lee H Harrison; 5D43TW011255-07, led by Lee H Harrison

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Kathryn H. Schmitz

    Co-investigator on 5T32CA186873-12, led by Jian-Min Yuan

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Edwin Roberto Orellana

    Co-investigator on 1R01TW013193-01, led by Toan Ha; 3R01TW013193-01S1, led by Toan Ha

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Nam Truong Nguyen

    Co-investigator on 1R01TW013193-01, led by Toan Ha; 3R01TW013193-01S1, led by Toan Ha

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Roman Shrestha

    Co-investigator on 1R01TW013193-01, led by Toan Ha; 3R01TW013193-01S1, led by Toan Ha

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads