FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Genetics at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
- 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 Genetics row of the University of Virginia page.
Leads a grant in this department
10 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Stephen S. Rich
Leads 2 awards · $5,853,264
- 1R01DK147408-01Department: NIH department codeDynamic Regulation of Alternative Splicing in the Initiation and Progression of Islet Autoimmunity in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study
Principal investigators: Stephen S. Rich (contact PI), Aakrosh Ratan, Suna Onengut
$5,180,852award amount - 5R01HL181987-02Department: NIH department codeLeveraging Large-Scale Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Omic Data for Functional Analysis of Central Obesity Loci
Principal investigators: Stephen S. Rich (contact PI), Leslie A Lange, Mete Civelek
$672,412award amount
Suna Onengut
Leads 2 awards · $2,350,345
- 5R01DK138367-03Department: NIH department codeIdentifying cell-type specific genetic control of T1D risk variants in TEDDY$1,402,745award amount
- 5U01DK142283-03Department: NIH department codeMolecular Drivers of Atherosclerosis in Diabetes
Principal investigators: Suna Onengut (contact PI), Clint L Miller, Mete Civelek
$947,600award amount
Also a principal investigator on 1R01DK147408-01, led by Stephen S. Rich.
Charles R Farber
Leads 3 awards · $1,965,252
- 5R01AR082880-03Department: NIH department codeLarge-Scale Genetic Analysis of Bone Strength in Diversity Outbred Mice$695,290award amount
- 5R01AR086161-02Department: NIH department codeLeveraging Context-Specific eQTL to Inform BMD GWAS
Principal investigators: Charles R Farber (contact PI), Abhijit Dighe
$651,573award amount - 5R01AR079179-05Department: NIH department codeSystems Genetics of Bone Regeneration
Principal investigators: Charles R Farber (contact PI), D Rick Sumner
$618,389award amount
Clint L Miller
Leads 1 award · $682,043
- 5R01HL148239-08Department: NIH department codeMultimodal genetic regulatory architecture of coronary artery disease$682,043award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5U01DK142283-03, led by Suna Onengut.
John Platig
Leads 1 award · $673,136
- 5R01HL176576-02Department: NIH department codePost-transcriptional regulatory networks in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease$673,136award amount
Kexin Xu
Leads 1 award · $424,908
- 5R01CA279681-03Department: NIH department codeFunction of the METTL3-NUP93 complex-mediated nuclear export of m6A-modified mRNAs in castration-resistant prostate cancer.$424,908award amount
Zechen Chong
Leads 1 award · $352,141
- 7R35GM138212-08Department: NIH department codeAdvanced genome and transcriptome analysis using long-read sequencing technologies$352,141award amount
Tin Yi Chu
Leads 1 award · $248,999
- 4R00HG013429-03Department: NIH department codeComputational Modeling of the Interplay between External Signaling and Transcription Rewiring using Spatial Transcriptomics and Single Cell Multiome Data$248,999award amount
Ziqiao Wang
Leads 1 award · $248,999
- 4R00HG013674-03Department: NIH department codeEnhancing the Interpretability and Applicability of Polygenic Scores through Multi-Omics Integration and Analysis of Family-Based Studies$248,999award amount
Bingjie Xue
Leads 1 award · $41,336
- 5F31DK139601-02Department: NIH department codeThe reninness score: integrative analysis of multi-omic data to define renin cell identity$41,336award 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.
Aakrosh Ratan
Co-investigator on 1R01DK147408-01, led by Stephen S. Rich
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Mete Civelek
Co-investigator on 5U01DK142283-03, led by Suna Onengut; 5R01HL181987-02, led by Stephen S. Rich
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of California, Los Angeles · Anesthesiology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Leslie A Lange
Co-investigator on 5R01HL181987-02, led by Stephen S. Rich
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Abhijit Dighe
Co-investigator on 5R01AR086161-02, led by Charles R Farber
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
D Rick Sumner
Co-investigator on 5R01AR079179-05, led by Charles R Farber
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Rush University Medical Center · Anatomy & Cell Biology (NIH department code, 2 awards)