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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Memphis, TN

Funding
$5.3M
$5,343,545
Awards
10
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
8
7 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#42
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Radhakrishna Rao

    Leads 3 awards · $1,498,466

    • 5U01AI170019-05Department: NIH department code
      Radiation-Induced Paneth Cell Dysfunction
      $510,592
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029270-05Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Role of Intestinal Calcium Channels in Alcoholic Liver Damage.
      $500,073
      award amount
    • 5U01AI172991-04Department: NIH department code
      Mitigation of GI-ARS by Lactobacillus species
      $487,801
      award amount
  2. Zhongjie Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,227,417

    • 1R01AG094597-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulation of heart function in health and aging
      $624,442
      award amount
    • 5R01DK138872-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of kidney function and blood pressure in aging
      $602,975
      award amount
  3. Jonathan H Jaggar

    Leads 1 award · $615,002

    • 5R01HL166411-04Department: NIH department code
      Chloride channels in endothelial cells
      $615,002
      award amount
  4. Rahima Zennadi

    Leads 1 award · $549,829

    • 7R01HL160697-03Department: NIH department code
      Oxidative stress mechanisms regulating gamma-globin gene transcription in sickle cell disease
      $549,829
      award amount
  5. Gadiparthi N Rao

    Leads 1 award · $511,066

    • 5R01EY034425-04Department: NIH department code
      GRP78 signaling and retinal angiogenesis
      $511,066
      award amount
  6. Helena Parfenova

    Leads 1 award · $498,595

    • 5R01NS134659-03Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal cerebral vascular injury by prolonged asphyxia
      $498,595
      award amount
  7. Djamel Lebeche

    Leads 1 award · $443,170

    • 5R01NS140100-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Pharmacological Approach to Stroke Neuroprotection

      Principal investigators: Djamel Lebeche (contact PI), Tauheed Ishrat

      $443,170
      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.

  • Tauheed Ishrat

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS140100-02, led by Djamel Lebeche

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