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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Radiology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$26.1M
$26,064,856
Awards
36
FY2026 NIH awards in Radiology
Principal investigators
40
30 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
of 75 · 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 Radiology row of the University of Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

30 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. Jiantao Pu

    Leads 2 awards · $3,664,159

    • 1R01HL187015-01Department: NIH department code
      DART-HIV: An AI-Driven Model for Predicting Dynamic Adverse-Outcome Risk Trajectories in HIV

      Principal investigators: Jiantao Pu (contact PI), Alison Morris, Laurence Huang

      $3,229,552
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174570-03Department: NIH department code
      An Automated Frailty Scoring System for Lung Transplantation Based on Bio-Geo-Composition

      Principal investigators: Jiantao Pu (contact PI), Chadi Antonios Hage, Pablo G Sanchez

      $434,607
      award amount

  2. Alexander Olawaiye

    Leads 1 award · $2,222,178

  3. Francesmary Modugno

    Leads 1 award · $2,222,178

  4. Hong Wang

    Leads 1 award · $2,222,178

  5. Robert Page Edwards

    Leads 1 award · $2,222,178

  6. Ronald J Buckanovich

    Leads 1 award · $2,222,178

  7. Sina Tavakoli

    Leads 2 awards · $2,125,204

    • 1R01HL186219-01Department: NIH department code
      Imaging CMKLR1 to Track Macrophage-Driven Inflammation in Post-Myocardial Infarction Remodeling
      $1,559,091
      award amount
    • 5R01HL166953-04Department: NIH department code
      CMKLR1-Targeted Molecular Imaging of Inflammation as a Precision Medicine Tool in Acute Lung Injury and Fibrotic Lung Diseases
      $566,113
      award amount

  8. Shandong Wu

    Leads 2 awards · $2,027,667

    • 3OT2OD037972-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Ethically-focused multimodal AI models for precision treatments of breast cancer
      $1,627,856
      award amount
    • 3OT2OD037972-01S2Department: NIH department code
      Ethically-focused multimodal AI models for precision treatments of breast cancer
      $399,811
      award amount

  9. Scott E Snyder

    Leads 1 award · $2,000,000

    • 1S10OD040152-01Department: NIH department code
      United Imaging uNeuroExplorer Brain PET/CT Scanner
      $2,000,000
      award amount

  10. Rajesh Narendran

    Leads 3 awards · $1,633,999

    • 1R01AA031453-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Imaging Mitochondrial Complex-I with [18F]BCPP-EF PET in Alcohol Use Disorder
      $654,605
      award amount
    • 1R01AA032487-01Department: NIH department code
      Does a hyperactive nociceptin opioid peptide receptor system promote relapse in heavy drinking AUD subjects: a [11C]NOP-1A and hydrocortisone PET study
      $628,080
      award amount
    • 1R61DA062821-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Imaging brain energy use in cocaine use disorder: a [F-18]BCPP-EF PET study
      $351,314
      award amount

  11. Nadine Hempel

    Leads 2 awards · $1,277,193

    • 1R01CA304154-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Non-canonical functions of the mitochondrial fission protein Drp1 in ovarian cancer
      $638,771
      award amount
    • 1R01CA297821-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the impact of detachment sensing proteins in ovarian cancer metastasis

      Principal investigators: Nadine Hempel (contact PI), Mythreye Karthikeyan

      $638,422
      award amount

  12. Christopher J. Bakkenist

    Leads 2 awards · $1,106,131

    • 5R01CA294651-02Department: NIH department code
      Deoxyuridine Contamination and Innate Immune Signaling
      $644,234
      award amount
    • 5R01CA266172-05Department: NIH department code
      DNA damage response and cancer immunity
      $461,897
      award amount

  13. Rupa Radhakrishnan

    Leads 1 award · $1,098,145

    • 4R01DA059321-02Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Fetal and Placental Imaging and Biomarkers of Clinical Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder

      Principal investigators: Rupa Radhakrishnan (contact PI), Senthilkumar Sadhasivam

      $1,098,145
      award amount

  14. Yu-Chiao Chiu

    Leads 3 awards · $979,693

    • 5R35GM154967-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel computational approaches for pharmacogenomics of complex diseases
      $384,981
      award amount
    • 1R01LM015188-01Department: NIH department code
      Data-driven discovery of drug response mechanisms through biologically informed deep learning and large language models
      $357,750
      award amount
    • 5R03CA305794-02Department: NIH department code
      Open science platform for cancer dependency prediction and analysis using deep learning and large language models
      $236,962
      award amount

  15. Amitava Mukherjee

    Leads 2 awards · $696,647

    • 5U01AI186994-02Department: NIH department code
      Mitigation of hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome (ARS) by inhibition of tyrosine kinase Fgr

      Principal investigators: Amitava Mukherjee (contact PI), Joel S Greenberger, Robert J Binder

      $537,647
      award amount
    • 5R21AI193783-02Department: NIH department code
      Inhibition of tyrosine kinase Fgr mitigates hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome (H-ARS)
      $159,000
      award amount

  16. Jing Hong Wang

    Leads 1 award · $655,244

    • 5R01CA282074-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic connection between HPV-specific TCRs and therapeutic responses to ICI in HPV+ HNSCC

      Principal investigators: Jing Hong Wang (contact PI), Robert L. Ferris

      $655,244
      award amount

  17. Hua Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $634,926

    • 1R37CA308966-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Translational models for targetable genetic alterations in lung squamous cell carcinoma
      $634,926
      award amount

  18. Ravi Bhasker Patel

    Leads 1 award · $611,562

    • 5R01CA275766-04Department: NIH department code
      VLA-4–targeted 67Cu-LLP2A preconditioning enhances efficacy of T-cell-based adoptive immunotherapy
      $611,562
      award amount

  19. Riyue Bao

    Leads 1 award · $604,941

    • 5R01DE031729-05Department: NIH department code
      Immune Exclusion in Cancer Immunotherapy

      Principal investigators: Riyue Bao (contact PI), Dan Paul Zandberg

      $604,941
      award amount

  20. Michel M. Modo

    Leads 1 award · $587,678

    • 1R01NS142114-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of the immune response tobioscaffold-implantation using multi-color 19F MRI
      $587,678
      award amount

  21. Charles Laymon

    Leads 1 award · $586,545

    • 5R33AG076861-03Department: NIH department code
      Imaging Beta-Amyloid Clearance Mechanisms in the Aging Brain

      Principal investigators: Charles Laymon (contact PI), Davneet Singh Minhas

      $586,545
      award amount

  22. Heath Devin Skinner

    Leads 1 award · $583,698

    • 5R01DE032337-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting non-canonical p16 signaling to improve radiation response and outcome in head and neck cancer
      $583,698
      award amount

  23. Joel S Greenberger

    Leads 1 award · $545,451

    • 5U01AI172885-04Department: NIH department code
      LR-IL-22 for Mitigation and Management of Radiation Injuries
      $545,451
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AI186994-02, led by Amitava Mukherjee.

  24. Tao Jin

    Leads 1 award · $499,912

    • 5R01NS134810-02Department: NIH department code
      Dual Contrast pH-Weighted MRI for Stroke Imaging
      $499,912
      award amount

  25. Tae Kim

    Leads 1 award · $462,754

    • 5R01AG082700-04Department: NIH department code
      Examining a dose-dependent exercise intervention on cerebrovascular plasticity in late adulthood
      $462,754
      award amount

  26. Adam Christopher Mueller

    Leads 1 award · $408,829

    • 1R21CA302996-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating lipogenesis mediated resistance to cytotoxic therapy in PDAC
      $408,829
      award amount

  27. Donna M Posluszny

    Leads 1 award · $363,713

    • 5R01CA268004-05Department: NIH department code
      Dyadic Intervention to Improve Patient-Family Caregiver Team-Based Management of the Medical Regimen after Allogenetic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
      $363,713
      award amount

  28. Juhun Lee

    Leads 1 award · $348,283

    • 5R01CA269540-04Department: NIH department code
      Detecting Mammographically-Occult Cancer in Women with Dense Breasts Using Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
      $348,283
      award amount

  29. Margarita L Zuley

    Leads 1 award · $214,521

    • 5R01CA258898-05Department: NIH department code
      Contrast Enhanced Mammography (CEM) to Reduce Biopsy Rates for Less Than Highly Suspicious Breast Abnormalities: a Prospective Study
      $214,521
      award amount

  30. Samantha J Werts-Pelter

    Leads 1 award · $125,783

    • 1K99CA310811-01Department: NIH department code
      RUCAS: A personalized, place-based digital health intervention to promote physical activity among rural cancer survivors
      $125,783
      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.