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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Funding
$50M
$50,038,975
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
22
19 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#34
of 133 · 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 Internal Medicine row of the University of South Florida page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Jeffrey P Krischer

    Leads 2 awards · $34,455,418

    • 5U01DK106993-08Department: NIH department code
      Data Coordinating Center for Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet
      $28,300,142
      award amount
    • 3U01DK128847-04SADepartment: NIH department code
      Limited Competition: Continued Follow-up of Subjects and Initiation of a Second Case-control Cohort in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in The Young Study (TEDDY)
      $6,155,276
      award amount

  2. Kendra Vehik

    Leads 1 award · $4,640,761

    • 1R01DK147446-01Department: NIH department code
      Circulating miRNAs as novel biomarkers for T1D prediction in the TEDDY study

      Principal investigators: Kendra Vehik (contact PI), Alberto Pugliese

      $4,640,761
      award amount

  3. Jinying Zhao

    Leads 3 awards · $2,309,794

    • 5R01AG095602-02Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptome-wide mapping of brain m6A methylome in Alzheimer’s disease
      $786,683
      award amount
    • 7R01AG083902-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain glycosphingolipids and Alzheimer's disease
      $783,398
      award amount
    • 5R01AG085469-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain and blood N-glycome profiling in Alzheimer's disease
      $739,713
      award amount

  4. Da-Zhi Wang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,777,815

    • 5R01HL177546-02Department: NIH department code
      CDK13 function in heart development and congenital heart disease
      $675,555
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168900-04Department: NIH department code
      Function and Mechanism of the Intercalated Disc Protein XinB in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Cardiac Regeneration
      $552,772
      award amount
    • 5R01HL165794-04Department: NIH department code
      lncRNA Function and Mechanisms during Cardiac Development and Disease
      $549,488
      award amount

  5. Liwang Cui

    Leads 6 awards · $1,480,433

    • 3U19AI181593-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $409,623
      award amount
    • 5R01AI187187-02Department: NIH department code
      Functions of mRNPs in RNA metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum
      $375,000
      award amount
    • 5U19AI181593-03Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $334,902
      award amount
    • 3D43TW011509-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Training in Malaria Research in Myanmar
      $147,467
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196584-01Department: NIH department code
      Ecology of Plasmodium malariae transmission in Cameroon
      $114,500
      award amount
    • 5D43TW011509-05Department: NIH department code
      Training in Malaria Research in Myanmar
      $98,941
      award amount

  6. Duolin Wang

    Leads 1 award · $1,355,596

    • 7R01LM015024-02Department: NIH department code
      A multi-agent AI system for automated curation and functional annotation of enzymes in human gut microbiome
      $1,355,596
      award amount

  7. Akindeh Mbuh Nji

    Leads 2 awards · $744,525

    • 3U19AI181593-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $409,623
      award amount
    • 5U19AI181593-03Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $334,902
      award amount

  8. Rose Leke

    Leads 2 awards · $744,525

    • 3U19AI181593-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $409,623
      award amount
    • 5U19AI181593-03Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Cameroon: A Systems Approach (REDIAL)

      Principal investigators: Akindeh Mbuh Nji (contact PI), Liwang Cui (contact PI), Rose Leke (contact PI)

      $334,902
      award amount

  9. Roland C Merchant

    Leads 1 award · $688,573

    • 5R01DA055533-05Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of a persuasive health communication intervention designed to increase HIV/HCV screening among emergency departments patients who currently, formerly or never injected drugs
      $688,573
      award amount

  10. George A Spirou

    Leads 1 award · $650,451

  11. Elena Suvorova

    Leads 1 award · $525,000

    • 5R01AI175640-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of apicomplexan mitosis coupled to budding
      $525,000
      award amount

  12. Zhigao Wang

    Leads 1 award · $412,500

    • 5R35GM158455-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Chemical Regulation of Cell Death in Disease
      $412,500
      award amount

  13. Hongshuo Song

    Leads 1 award · $380,235

    • 5R01AI181601-03Department: NIH department code
      Escape by Shifting: Viral Entry Tropism Shift as an Evolutionary Mechanism of Immune Evasion
      $380,235
      award amount

  14. Ajit Magadum

    Leads 1 award · $375,000

    • 5R01HL169872-03Department: NIH department code
      PSAT1 modified mRNA induces cardiac repair post-ischemic heart injury
      $375,000
      award amount

  15. Eleni Markoutsa

    Leads 1 award · $369,823

    • 5R01NS138600-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of SARS-CoV-2-induced senescence in the development of Alzheimer's Disease
      $369,823
      award amount

  16. Kunhua Song

    Leads 1 award · $365,327

    • 5R01HL133230-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms for cell signaling in the control of cardiomyogenesis
      $365,327
      award amount

  17. Kay D. Everett

    Leads 1 award · $163,760

    • 7K08HL173696-03Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of Ventricular-Vascular Coupling in Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
      $163,760
      award amount

  18. Derek Jacobs

    Leads 1 award · $47,387

    • 1F30AI203579-01Department: NIH department code
      Unleashing the anti-HIV activity of lymphoid-resident NK cells
      $47,387
      award amount

  19. Chiara Elisabeth Micchelli

    Leads 1 award · $41,102

    • 1F31AI200144-01Department: NIH department code
      Identification of the genetic mechanisms involved in modulating artemisinin tolerance under oxidative stress in P. falciparum
      $41,102
      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.