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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$4.3M
$4,285,338
Awards
8
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
8
7 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Engineering row of the University of Virginia 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. Nathan Swami

    Leads 2 awards · $1,254,110

    • 1R01GM154950-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Inline impedance-activated recognition, tracking and sorting system on single-cell biophysical metrics
      $1,092,610
      award amount
    • 1R03CA313333-01Department: NIH department code
      Cancer cells with hybrid epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes for deformability-based classification
      $161,500
      award amount
  2. Miaomiao Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $760,465

    • 1R01HL181107-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deep Learning to Advance Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Strain Imaging and Heart Failure Treatment Planning
      $760,465
      award amount
  3. Rupa Sheth Valdez

    Leads 1 award · $562,012

    • 5R01HD116303-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and Measuring Domains of Disability-Related Barriers to Advance Health for the Disability Community

      Principal investigators: Rupa Sheth Valdez (contact PI), Bonnielin Swenor

      $562,012
      award amount
  4. Mathews Jacob

    Leads 1 award · $544,417

    • 5R01EB019961-08Department: NIH department code
      Novel Computational Framework for Free-Breathing & Ungated Dynamic MRI
      $544,417
      award amount
  5. Steven Caliari

    Leads 1 award · $415,171

    • 1R35GM162024-01Department: NIH department code
      Designing cell-instructive viscoelastic hydrogels to understand and exploit mechanobiology
      $415,171
      award amount
  6. Liheng Cai

    Leads 1 award · $387,104

    • 5R35GM154912-03Department: NIH department code
      Constructing 3D voxelated tissues with molecular architecture encoded modular biomaterials to understand and control stem cell function
      $387,104
      award amount
  7. Rachel Letteri

    Leads 1 award · $362,059

    • 5R35GM147424-05Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing therapeutic peptide presentation within polymers
      $362,059
      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.

  • Bonnielin Swenor

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD116303-03, led by Rupa Sheth Valdez

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