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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$7.7M
$7,728,209
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
14
12 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
of 95 · 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 Anatomy & Cell Biology row of the University of Virginia page.

Leads a grant in this department

12 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. Joshua D. Wythe

    Leads 1 award · $1,620,133

    • 1R01HL176831-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Inherited and Sporadic Brain Arteriovenous Malformations

      Principal investigators: Joshua D. Wythe (contact PI), Karen Kemper Hirschi

      $1,620,133
      award amount

  2. Xiaowei Lu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,116,307

    • 2R01DC013773-11Department: NIH department code
      Microtubule-Mediated Mechanisms Underlying Hair Cell Development and Deafness
      $588,699
      award amount
    • 5R01HD107872-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of mechanotransduction during neural tube morphogenesis

      Principal investigators: Xiaowei Lu (contact PI), Ann E Sutherland

      $527,608
      award amount

  3. Bettina R Winckler

    Leads 2 awards · $988,610

    • 5R01NS083378-22Department: NIH department code
      Organization and Function of Neuronal Endosomes
      $555,522
      award amount
    • 1R21NS149657-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Roles Of Intermediate Filaments in Sensory and Motor Regeneration
      $433,088
      award amount

  4. Saurabh S Kulkarni

    Leads 2 awards · $847,875

    • 1R21HD123198-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional Genomics of DAW1 Variants: A Dual-Context In Vivo Pipeline for Motile Ciliopathies
      $444,125
      award amount
    • 5R35GM146856-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanotransduction in morphogenesis of mucociliary epithelium and multiciliated cells
      $403,750
      award amount

  5. Karen Kemper Hirschi

    Leads 1 award · $763,154

    • 5R01HL171284-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell Cycle Control of Arterial-Venous Specification
      $763,154
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL176831-01A1, led by Joshua D. Wythe.

  6. Elias T Spiliotis

    Leads 1 award · $527,873

    • 5R35GM136337-08Department: NIH department code
      Spatial control of membrane traffic by septin GTPases
      $527,873
      award amount

  7. Sameer Bajikar

    Leads 1 award · $490,593

    • 1R01NS150458-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of Growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) in neurodevelopmental disorders
      $490,593
      award amount

  8. Laura Elizabeth Newman

    Leads 1 award · $444,125

    • 1R35GM165571-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of mitochondrial stress signaling by mitochondria-organellar communication
      $444,125
      award amount

  9. Kimberly A. Kelly

    Leads 1 award · $431,337

  10. James E. Casanova

    Leads 1 award · $403,750

    • 5R35GM152130-03Department: NIH department code
      ARFs, ORPs and the control of cell migration
      $403,750
      award amount

  11. Gustavo Gavrel Pacheco

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30HD111307-03Department: NIH department code
      Localized mitochondrial metabolic activity in Xenopus mesendoderm cells undergoing collective cell migration
      $55,114
      award amount

  12. Shelby Cain

    Leads 1 award · $39,338

    • 5F31CA288057-03Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial Cell Cycle Control to Normalize the Tumor Vasculature
      $39,338
      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.