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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$47.3M
$47,291,479
Awards
41
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
51
43 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#37
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 Southern California page.

Leads a grant in this department

43 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. Thomas A Buchanan

    Leads 1 award · $9,143,711

    • 5UL1TR001855-10Department: NIH department code
      Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute

      Principal investigators: Thomas A Buchanan (contact PI), Michele D. Kipke

      $9,143,711
      award amount

  2. Amir Goldkorn

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

    Also a principal investigator on 2UG1CA180830-12, led by Anthony Boutros El-Khoueiry.

  3. Bodour Salhia

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  4. Caryn Lerman

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  5. Diana Lewez Hanna

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  6. Fumito Ito

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  7. Joseph Leo Wiemels

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  8. Josh Neman-Ebrahim

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  9. Lourdes A. Baezconde-Garbanati

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  10. Ming Li

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  11. Myles G Cockburn

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  12. Saul Priceman

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  13. Syma Iqbal

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  14. Tirzah Petta

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  15. Veronica Wendy Setiawan

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  16. William Dean Wallace

    Leads 1 award · $6,579,621

  17. Rong Lu

    Leads 3 awards · $6,310,898

    • 4R01DK143671-03Department: NIH department code
      A spatial view of hematopoietic regeneration dynamics in the bone marrow

      Principal investigators: Rong Lu (contact PI), Michael B Elowitz

      $4,858,332
      award amount
    • 5R35HL150826-07Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the heterogeneity and coordination of hematopoietic stem cells
      $927,429
      award amount
    • 5R01AG080982-04Department: NIH department code
      Using spatial, single-cell genomic recording to investigate age-associated clonal hematopoiesis

      Principal investigators: Rong Lu (contact PI), Carlos Lois, Michael B Elowitz

      $525,137
      award amount

  18. Howard Neil Hodis

    Leads 1 award · $5,945,498

    • 1R01AG102693-01Department: NIH department code
      Alzheimer's Risk Intervention Trial with Estradiol (ARITE)

      Principal investigators: Howard Neil Hodis (contact PI), Meredith Nicole Braskie

      $5,945,498
      award amount

  19. Heinz Josef Lenz

    Leads 1 award · $2,625,282

    • 5U2CCA252971-06Department: NIH department code
      USC PE-GCS: Optimizing Engagement of Hispanic Colorectal Cancer Patients in Cancer Genomic Characterization Studies

      Principal investigators: Heinz Josef Lenz (contact PI), John D. Carpten

      $2,625,282
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2UG1CA180830-12, led by Anthony Boutros El-Khoueiry.

  20. Kathleen Alanna Page

    Leads 3 awards · $2,250,677

    • 1R01DK145940-01Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Gut-Brain Pathways on Childhood Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Development

      Principal investigators: Kathleen Alanna Page (contact PI), Anny H Xiang

      $845,922
      award amount
    • 5R01DK134079-04Department: NIH department code
      Effects of prenatal exposures to maternal obesity and gestational diabetes on metabolic decline from childhood to adolescence and underlying neurobiological pathways

      Principal investigators: Kathleen Alanna Page (contact PI), Anny H Xiang

      $801,852
      award amount
    • 5U01DK140786-03Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal Evaluation of Neurocognitive Complications in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Across Multi-Ethnic Groups—Exploring Risk and Protective Factors

      Principal investigators: Kathleen Alanna Page (contact PI), Anny H Xiang, Jennifer K Raymond

      $602,903
      award amount

  21. Giorgia Quadrato

    Leads 2 awards · $1,479,618

    • 5R01MH136351-03Department: NIH department code
      A multi-organoid-on-a-chip platform for interrogating human brain (dys)connectivity
      $799,811
      award amount
    • 5R01MH138371-02Department: NIH department code
      Non-synaptic function of Syngap1 in human neurodevelopmental disorders
      $679,807
      award amount

  22. Norah A. Terrault

    Leads 4 awards · $1,227,391

    • 5R01AA030960-04Department: NIH department code
      1/4-American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation-Prospective Alcohol-associated liver disease Cohort Evaluation (ACCELERATE-PACE)
      $577,500
      award amount
    • 5U01DK130197-06Department: NIH department code
      USC Cirrhosis Clinical Center
      $301,266
      award amount
    • 5T32DK127977-05Department: NIH department code
      Translational Research Training in Hepatology

      Principal investigators: Norah A. Terrault (contact PI), Rohit Kohli

      $226,916
      award amount
    • 5U01DK061738-26Department: NIH department code
      Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network (NASH CRN)
      $121,709
      award amount

  23. Lin Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,142,411

    • 1R01CA312130-01Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic mechanisms of targeting WRN in MSI colorectal cancer.
      $581,548
      award amount
    • 1R01CA311678-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of p73-mediated DR5 induction in therapeutic response to CDK inhibition.
      $560,863
      award amount

  24. Lily Dara

    Leads 2 awards · $1,082,327

    • 5R01DK144042-02Department: NIH department code
      The impact of sex and cell death on checkpoint inhibitor hepatotoxicity
      $733,443
      award amount
    • 5U01DK083020-19Department: NIH department code
      USC-UCLA Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) Clinical Center
      $348,884
      award amount

  25. Leonardo Morsut

    Leads 2 awards · $896,706

    • 1R35GM162013-01Department: NIH department code
      Technologies to study and control patterning and differentiation in multicellular development, a case study for multilayered arterial wall of controlled thickness
      $656,500
      award amount
    • 1R21HL186766-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Therapeutic Monocytes to Immunomodulate Infarcted Human Myocardium on a Chip

      Principal investigators: Leonardo Morsut (contact PI), Megan Laura McCain

      $240,206
      award amount

  26. Eugene Lin

    Leads 1 award · $802,610

    • 4R01DK137223-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Mechanisms of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dialysis Quality
      $802,610
      award amount

  27. Brad J Spellberg

    Leads 1 award · $780,493

    • 5R01AI130060-09Department: NIH department code
      MAb Passive Vaccination against Acinetobacter baumannii
      $780,493
      award amount

  28. Yao Wei Lu

    Leads 1 award · $752,469

    • 5R01HL179278-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting PCBP1 to Ameliorate Pathological Angiogenesis
      $752,469
      award amount

  29. Sarmad Sadeghi

    Leads 1 award · $679,846

    • 5R01CA293348-02Department: NIH department code
      Synergistic immune response after EphrinB2 inhibition & PD-1 antibody therapy in urothelial carcinoma.
      $679,846
      award amount

  30. Megan Laura McCain

    Leads 1 award · $638,399

    • 5R01HL153286-07Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a Microphysiological System to Model the Infarct Border Zone and Interrogate Oxygen-Dependent Cell-Cell Communication in the Myocardium
      $638,399
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21HL186766-01, led by Leonardo Morsut.

  31. Rongfu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $633,385

    • 5R01CA302874-02Department: NIH department code
      Lung Cancer Immunotherapy using new generation of TCR-engineered CD4 + T cells
      $633,385
      award amount

  32. Shan Luo

    Leads 1 award · $616,930

    • 5R01DK137899-03Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Maternal Diabetes on early brain development
      $616,930
      award amount

  33. Nils Olof Lindstrom

    Leads 1 award · $588,176

    • 5R01DK136802-04Department: NIH department code
      Establishing and Mimicking Patterning Mechanisms in the Distal Nephron Tubule and Kidney Organoid
      $588,176
      award amount

  34. Charles E Murry

    Leads 1 award · $568,945

    • 5R01HL160825-04Department: NIH department code
      Function, composition, and mechanism of RNA splicing factories in cardiomyopathy
      $568,945
      award amount

  35. Evanthia Theodosiou Roussos Torres

    Leads 1 award · $562,338

    • 5R01CA283169-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting myeloid suppression to enhance anti-tumor immunity in breast cancer
      $562,338
      award amount

  36. Yali Dou

    Leads 1 award · $510,646

    • 5R01CA287625-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-canonical function of transcription cofactor MLL1 in cancer
      $510,646
      award amount

  37. Takeshi Saito

    Leads 2 awards · $496,290

    • 5R01AI179019-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Peritoneal Macrophage in Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
      $288,790
      award amount
    • 5R21AI186383-02Department: NIH department code
      Host Response to Hepatitis Delta Virus Infection
      $207,500
      award amount

  38. Cheng Ji

    Leads 1 award · $391,875

    • 5R01DA058458-04Department: NIH department code
      Hepatotoxic mechanisms of anti-HIV- and anti-COVID-19 drugs and substance use disorders
      $391,875
      award amount

  39. Anthony Boutros El-Khoueiry

    Leads 1 award · $218,746

  40. Kali Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $165,735

    • 5K23MD016963-05Department: NIH department code
      Multilevel Determinants of Socioeconomic Disparities in Geographic Late Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hotspots
      $165,735
      award amount

  41. Marcella Birtele

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 1K99DK143293-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Autism-Related Gut Dysfunction with Human Enteric Neurons and Intestinal Organoids
      $90,000
      award amount

  42. Christopher Ching

    Leads 1 award · $60,342

    • 3R21MH139001-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Large-scale fine mapping of brain morphometry in bipolar disorder and major depression
      $60,342
      award amount

  43. Zachary Vander Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HL178286-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Heterogeneous Intercellular Signaling of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells and its Changes around the Circadian Clock
      $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.

  • Michele D. Kipke

    Co-investigator on 5UL1TR001855-10, led by Thomas A Buchanan

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Meredith Nicole Braskie

    Co-investigator on 1R01AG102693-01, led by Howard Neil Hodis

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

  • Michael B Elowitz

    Co-investigator on 4R01DK143671-03, led by Rong Lu; 5R01AG080982-04, led by Rong Lu

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • John D. Carpten

    Co-investigator on 5U2CCA252971-06, led by Heinz Josef Lenz

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Anny H Xiang

    Co-investigator on 1R01DK145940-01, led by Kathleen Alanna Page; 5R01DK134079-04, led by Kathleen Alanna Page; 5U01DK140786-03, led by Kathleen Alanna Page

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer K Raymond

    Co-investigator on 5U01DK140786-03, led by Kathleen Alanna Page

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

  • Carlos Lois

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG080982-04, led by Rong Lu

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

  • Rohit Kohli

    Co-investigator on 5T32DK127977-05, led by Norah A. Terrault

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

Also counted toward University of Southern California in the Internal Medicine ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Southern California. With University of Southern California's own 41 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #37, $47,550,458, 42 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.