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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Public Health at University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Memphis, TN

Funding
$4M
$4,043,504
Awards
7
FY2026 NIH awards in Public Health
Principal investigators
12
6 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#72
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 Tennessee Health Science Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Qi Zhao

    Leads 2 awards · $1,937,005

    • 5UH3OD035519-04Department: NIH department code
      Retaining the CANDLE cohort to advance ECHO Cohort solution-oriented research and identify early-life modifiable risk factors for obesity and mental health problems in children

      Principal investigators: Qi Zhao (contact PI), Kaja Zabrina Lewinn, Nicole Renee Bush

      $1,200,996
      award amount
    • 5R01DK134937-04Department: NIH department code
      Prenatal Longitudinal Metabolomics Profiling for Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk in a US Biracial Birth Cohort
      $736,009
      award amount

  2. Karen C Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $639,038

    • 5R01CA267643-05Department: NIH department code
      Managing Obesity by Leveraging Health Information Technology to Lower Cancer Risk

      Principal investigators: Karen C Johnson (contact PI), Phyllis A Richey

      $639,038
      award amount

  3. Michelle Martin

    Leads 1 award · $613,717

    • 5R01MD018375-04Department: NIH department code
      Making Healthy Habits Stick: Extended Contact Interventions to Promote Long-Term Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors

      Principal investigators: Michelle Martin (contact PI), Laura Q Rogers

      $613,717
      award amount

  4. Karen J Derefinko

    Leads 1 award · $548,259

    • 5R01DA054910-05Department: NIH department code
      Life Stress Pathways and Resilience to Substance Misuse in Black and White Youth
      $548,259
      award amount

  5. Jacen Shannon Moore

    Leads 1 award · $251,485

    • 5R25GM142091-05Department: NIH department code
      From High School to Health Care: Lab and Data Science Pathways for Success
      $251,485
      award amount

  6. Jay H. Fowke

    Leads 1 award · $54,000

    • 1K12CA300481-01A1Department: NIH department code
      UTHSC K12 Career Development Program in Clinical Oncology

      Principal investigators: Jay H. Fowke (contact PI), David N Hayes, Ramesh Narayanan

      $54,000
      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.