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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$39.7M
$39,699,812
Awards
79
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
88
70 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#41
of 133 · 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 Internal Medicine row of the University of Virginia page.

Leads a grant in this department

70 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. Thomas P. Loughran

    Leads 3 awards · $7,432,965

  2. Hong Zhu

    Leads 2 awards · $5,390,651

  3. Jie Sun

    Leads 7 awards · $4,237,359

    • 1R01AI189721-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Decoding cellular networks governing respiratory mucosal IgA immunity
      $773,388
      award amount
    • 5R01HL170961-04Department: NIH department code
      Uncover mechanisms underlying the development of chronic lung sequelae post COVID-19

      Principal investigators: Jie Sun (contact PI), Robert Vassallo

      $662,733
      award amount
    • 5R01AI147394-07Department: NIH department code
      Host cellular network governing the development of post SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae
      $642,689
      award amount
    • 5R01AG090337-02Department: NIH department code
      CD38, T cells and post viral lung sequelae during aging
      $624,365
      award amount
    • 5R01HL171283-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Hyaluronan in IL-13-mediated COVID-19 Pathology

      Principal investigators: Jie Sun (contact PI), William A Petri

      $595,046
      award amount
    • 5R01AG069264-08Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the roles of alveolar macrophage inflammation and self renewal during influenza infection
      $584,156
      award amount
    • 1R01HL182700-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Immune determinants of lung sequelae post-acute viral infection

      Principal investigators: Jie Sun (contact PI), In Su Cheon

      $354,982
      award amount

  4. Charles E. Chalfant

    Leads 2 awards · $2,939,499

  5. Dina Gould Halme

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  6. Ileana Soto Mauldin

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  7. Jay William Fox

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  8. John Hackett Bushweller

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  9. Kimberly A. Kelly

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  10. Li Li

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  11. Lucy F Pemberton

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  12. Michael D. Solga

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  13. Nicholas Eugene Sherman

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  14. P. Todd Stukenberg

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  15. Parchayi Dalal

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  16. Patcharin Pramoonjago

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  17. Ryan Gentzler

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  18. Sijie Hao

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  19. Wen You

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  20. Wendy F Cohn

    Leads 1 award · $2,804,582

  21. David F Claxton

    Leads 1 award · $2,586,069

  22. Kelsey H Fisher-Wellman

    Leads 1 award · $2,586,069

  23. Kevin A Janes

    Leads 1 award · $2,586,069

  24. Todd E Fox

    Leads 1 award · $2,586,069

  25. Jonathan R Lindner

    Leads 4 awards · $2,507,002

    • 1R01HL182839-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rapid Point-of-Care Molecular Imaging of Immune Activation in ACS and Acute Myocarditis
      $802,973
      award amount
    • 5R01HL171377-03Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasound Cavitation for Facilitated Cardiac Transduction of AAV

      Principal investigators: Jonathan R Lindner (contact PI), Brent A French

      $736,438
      award amount
    • 5R01HL165422-05Department: NIH department code
      Advanced Non-invasive Imaging in the Investigation of Aortic Stenosis Pathobiology
      $659,193
      award amount
    • 2T32EB003841-21Department: NIH department code
      Training in Cardiovascular Imaging Research
      $308,398
      award amount

  26. Scott Alan Smith

    Leads 2 awards · $2,016,995

    • 7R01AI182247-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of IgE in human disease and immunity to ticks
      $1,356,673
      award amount
    • 7R01AI189950-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular details of the IgE antibody response to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose in alpha-gal syndrome
      $660,322
      award amount

  27. William A Petri

    Leads 5 awards · $1,977,370

    • 5R01AI124214-10Department: NIH department code
      Role of Type 2 Immunity in Innate Protection from C. difficile
      $564,456
      award amount
    • 5R37AI026649-36Department: NIH department code
      Role of CREM in Amebic Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
      $558,597
      award amount
    • 5R01AI043596-27Department: NIH department code
      Field Studies of Cryptosporidiosis in Bangladesh

      Principal investigators: William A Petri (contact PI), Carol A Gilchrist

      $387,852
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007046-50Department: NIH department code
      Infectious Diseases Training Program

      Principal investigators: William A Petri (contact PI), Alison K Criss

      $379,119
      award amount
    • 3R01AI043596-27S1Department: NIH department code
      Field Studies of Cryptosporidiosis in Bangladesh

      Principal investigators: William A Petri (contact PI), Carol A Gilchrist

      $87,346
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL171283-03, led by Jie Sun.

  28. Scott K Heysell

    Leads 8 awards · $1,811,268

    • 5R01AI137080-09Department: NIH department code
      Urine Colorimetry for Tuberculosis Pharmacokinetics Evaluation in Children and Adults

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Leonid Kagan

      $616,730
      award amount
    • 5U01AI192033-02Department: NIH department code
      STeroids and enhanced Antibiotics for the treatment of patients in Africa with Refractory Sepsis: STARS trial

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Christopher Charles Moore

      $329,631
      award amount
    • 3U01AI192033-02S1Department: NIH department code
      STeroids and enhanced Antibiotics for the treatment of patients in Africa with Refractory Sepsis: STARS trial

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Christopher Charles Moore

      $162,000
      award amount
    • 3U01AI192033-02S2Department: NIH department code
      STeroids and enhanced Antibiotics for the treatment of patients in Africa with Refractory Sepsis: STARS trial

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Christopher Charles Moore

      $162,000
      award amount
    • 3R01AI137080-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Urine Colorimetry for Tuberculosis Pharmacokinetics Evaluation in Children and Adults

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Leonid Kagan

      $146,449
      award amount
    • 5K24AI187675-02Department: NIH department code
      A global Infectious diseases framework to grow interdisciplinary research
      $146,170
      award amount
    • 3D43TW012247-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Developing research leaders at the intersection of malnutrition and tuberculosis in Tanzania

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Stellah George Mpagama

      $135,000
      award amount
    • 5D43TW012247-05Department: NIH department code
      Developing research leaders at the intersection of malnutrition and tuberculosis in Tanzania

      Principal investigators: Scott K Heysell (contact PI), Stellah George Mpagama

      $113,288
      award amount

  29. Anne K Kenworthy

    Leads 1 award · $1,708,682

  30. Kenneth Walsh

    Leads 2 awards · $1,268,991

    • 1R01AG092528-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Profibrotic Effects of Hematopoietic Y Chromosome Loss in HFpEF
      $689,148
      award amount
    • 5R01AG086508-03Department: NIH department code
      Mosaic Loss of the Y Chromosome in Cardiac Amyloidosis
      $579,843
      award amount

  31. Thomas A. Platts-Mills

    Leads 1 award · $1,144,302

    • 5R37AI020565-42Department: NIH department code
      IgE antibodies to the mammalian oligosaccharide galactose-alpha-1, 3-galactose (alpha-gal): immunology, epidemiology and relevance to allergic and inflammatory disease
      $1,144,302
      award amount

  32. Mark Douglas Okusa

    Leads 2 awards · $1,121,595

    • 2R01DK123248-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimmune Regulation of Acute Kidney Injury
      $806,269
      award amount
    • 5R01DK137937-03Department: NIH department code
      Proof of concept and feasibility in humans for pulsed ultrasound treatment to reduce inflammation and risk of AKI

      Principal investigators: Mark Douglas Okusa (contact PI), Mitchell H. Rosner

      $315,326
      award amount

  33. Sanja Arandjelovic

    Leads 2 awards · $867,424

    • 5R01AI158596-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding A Molecular Cascade That Drives Neutrophil Mediated Pathology In Arthritis
      $489,918
      award amount
    • 1R21AR086493-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of efferocytosis in systemic sclerosis
      $377,506
      award amount

  34. Amy J. Mathers

    Leads 1 award · $795,990

    • 1R01AI195926-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Resistance at Its Source: Identifying Superspreaders of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Hospital Ecosystems
      $795,990
      award amount

  35. Shrirang Mukund Gadrey

    Leads 1 award · $791,251

    • 5R01HL176600-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel physiomarkers of high-risk labored breathing for advance warning of clinical deterioration
      $791,251
      award amount

  36. Jeffrey Michael Sturek

    Leads 1 award · $790,762

    • 5R01HL179312-02Department: NIH department code
      Oxidation-Specific Epitope IgA in Pulmonary Fibrosis
      $790,762
      award amount

  37. William Benjamin Horton

    Leads 1 award · $788,831

    • 1R01DK145849-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of a ketone-aware automated insulin delivery system to enable safe use of sodium-glucose cotransporter inhibitors in people with type 1 diabetes
      $788,831
      award amount

  38. Zhenqi Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $782,460

    • 1R01DK141617-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of obesity on microvascular insulin action and cardiorespiratory fitness in Type 1 Diabetes
      $782,459
      award amount
    • 5T32DK007646-34Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in Neuroendocrinology and Metabolism
      $1
      award amount

  39. Emily Clarke McGowan

    Leads 1 award · $780,419

    • 5R01AI175232-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Role of Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) in Food-Induced Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
      $780,419
      award amount

  40. Kathleen Ann McManus

    Leads 1 award · $742,446

    • 5R01AI170093-04Department: NIH department code
      Best practices to improve viral suppression for people with HIV
      $742,446
      award amount

  41. Imre Noth

    Leads 1 award · $716,889

    • 5R01HL171918-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of quantitative CT and radiomic biomarkers for precision medicine in pulmonary fibrosis
      $716,889
      award amount

  42. Chaofan Li

    Leads 1 award · $713,396

    • 1R01AI203641-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of protective lung resident memory T cells
      $713,396
      award amount

  43. Uta Erdbruegger

    Leads 1 award · $688,673

    • 5R01DK133598-03Department: NIH department code
      Extracellular Vesicles, Insulin Action and Exercise on Vascular Function in Type 2 Diabetes

      Principal investigators: Uta Erdbruegger (contact PI), Steven K Malin

      $688,673
      award amount

  44. John S Kim

    Leads 1 award · $632,096

    • 5R01HL176659-02Department: NIH department code
      Proteomic markers of early and late stage pulmonary fibrosis
      $632,096
      award amount

  45. Christian A Chisholm

    Leads 2 awards · $593,596

    • 3UG1HD096730-09S1Department: NIH department code
      NICHD Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research: Research Units
      $478,679
      award amount
    • 5UG1HD096730-09Department: NIH department code
      NICHD Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research: Research Units
      $114,917
      award amount

  46. Anny Xiaobo Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $577,688

    • 5R01HL162783-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular understanding of the GSDMB-regulated innate immune response
      $577,688
      award amount

  47. Judith A Woodfolk

    Leads 1 award · $444,125

    • 1R21AI197495-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Human Immune Programs in Sequential Rhinovirus Infections
      $444,125
      award amount

  48. Coleen A McNamara

    Leads 1 award · $323,000

    • 5R01HL176892-02Department: NIH department code
      G6PD Deficiency and Atherosclerosis
      $323,000
      award amount

  49. Margaret N Kosek

    Leads 3 awards · $295,039

    • 5D43TW010913-09Department: NIH department code
      Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

      Principal investigators: Margaret N Kosek (contact PI), Maribel Paredes Olortegui

      $165,050
      award amount
    • 3D43TW010913-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

      Principal investigators: Margaret N Kosek (contact PI), Maribel Paredes Olortegui

      $116,389
      award amount
    • 3D43TW010913-09S2Department: NIH department code
      Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

      Principal investigators: Margaret N Kosek (contact PI), Maribel Paredes Olortegui

      $13,600
      award amount

  50. Patrick Evan Hager Jackson

    Leads 1 award · $282,625

    • 1R21AI197915-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of the Rev-Rev Response Element Regulatory Axis in HIV Transmission
      $282,625
      award amount

  51. Glenda Canderan

    Leads 1 award · $242,250

    • 1R21AI198922-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Role of T cells in Alpha-Gal IgE Sensitization and Mammalian Meat Allergy
      $242,250
      award amount

  52. Anne I. Sperling

    Leads 1 award · $236,660

    • 1R21AI197516-01A1Department: NIH department code
      IL-33/ST2-independent activation of lung type 2 responses
      $236,660
      award amount

  53. Carol A Gilchrist

    Leads 1 award · $201,875

    • 5R21AI185530-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing vaccines against the intracellular and extracellular Lifestages of the Cryptosporidium parasite
      $201,875
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AI043596-27, led by William A Petri; 3R01AI043596-27S1, led by William A Petri.

  54. B. Bishal Paudel

    Leads 1 award · $192,887

    • 1K22CA299417-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sphingolipid-guided stratification and therapeutic opportunities in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
      $192,887
      award amount

  55. Lindsay A. L. Somerville

    Leads 1 award · $192,840

    • 1K23HL183757-01Department: NIH department code
      Importance of type 2 inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients with recurrent pulmonary exacerbations
      $192,840
      award amount

  56. Jennifer Marie Hendrick

    Leads 1 award · $192,212

    • 5K23AI187708-02Department: NIH department code
      Active and passive humoral immunity to enteric adenovirus infection in Bangladeshi children
      $192,212
      award amount

  57. Silas A Culver

    Leads 1 award · $165,067

    • 5K08DK132463-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Atp6ap2 in renal proximal tubule lipotoxicity
      $165,067
      award amount

  58. Patricia Fiorella Rodriguez Lozano

    Leads 1 award · $162,000

    • 5K01HL174889-03Department: NIH department code
      Innovative Therapy to Treat Women with Angina with Nonobstructive CAD (ANOCA) and Coronary Microvascular Disease
      $162,000
      award amount

  59. Lyndsey M Muehling

    Leads 1 award · $161,450

    • 1K01AI202078-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying protective and pathogenic immune determinants of respiratory virus infection severity
      $161,450
      award amount

  60. Sumeet Khetarpal

    Leads 1 award · $142,776

    • 7K08HL177169-02Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Heart-Derived Myokines Mediating the Response to Exercise Stress Via PGC-1a
      $142,776
      award amount

  61. Josh M Colston

    Leads 1 award · $128,803

    • 5K01AI168493-04Department: NIH department code
      The Planetary Child Health Observatory: an interdisciplinary research initiative and web-based dashboard for mapping enteric infectious diseases and their risk factors and interventions in LMICs
      $128,803
      award amount

  62. Jinyi Tang

    Leads 1 award · $108,273

    • 5K99AI190056-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and Function of respiratory mucosal immunity post SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection
      $108,273
      award amount

  63. Larry C Borish

    Leads 1 award · $80,750

    • 5R03AI185854-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring innate immune responses to rhinovirus in allergic asthma

      Principal investigators: Larry C Borish (contact PI), Mark R Conaway, Peter W Heymann

      $80,750
      award amount

  64. Eibhlin Goggins

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30DK138782-03Department: NIH department code
      Effect of Pulsed Splenic Ultrasound on delaying Chronic Kidney Disease Progression through a Neuroimmune Mechanism.
      $55,114
      award amount

  65. Alexander Eichert

    Leads 1 award · $42,749

    • 1F31HL184421-01Department: NIH department code
      Ventricular remodeling after injury by growth differentiation factor 11 secreted by endogenously cycling cardiomyocytes
      $42,749
      award amount

  66. Bryce Murillo

    Leads 1 award · $42,749

    • 1F31HL188850-01Department: NIH department code
      DYRK1A-mediated Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle Activity
      $42,749
      award amount

  67. Christopher Pastore

    Leads 1 award · $42,749

    • 1F31HL182245-01A1Department: NIH department code
      IL-5 acts as a pleiotropic cytokine, signaling to multiple different cell types to converge on promoting survival in acute lung injury
      $42,749
      award amount

  68. Emily Marie Grayson

    Leads 1 award · $42,749

    • 1F31AI194769-01A1Department: NIH department code
      IL-33/ST2 Independent activation of Type 2 responses in Allergic Asthma
      $42,749
      award amount

  69. Paul H Dell

    Leads 1 award · $39,692

    • 5F31AI188883-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining a Role for Atypical B Cells in RV-Induced Exacerbations of Allergic Asthma
      $39,692
      award amount

  70. Madison Marie Turner

    Leads 1 award · $39,498

    • 1F31CA301956-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Profiling the tissue microenvironment of Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia through cellular dynamics and genetic signatures
      $39,498
      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.

  • Aakrosh Ratan

    Co-investigator on 4R01CA178393-08, led by Thomas P. Loughran

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

  • Huan Bao

    Co-investigator on 1RM1GM164136-01, led by Anne K Kenworthy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Ilya Levental

    Co-investigator on 1RM1GM164136-01, led by Anne K Kenworthy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Kandice Rose Levental

    Co-investigator on 1RM1GM164136-01, led by Anne K Kenworthy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Lukas K Tamm

    Co-investigator on 1RM1GM164136-01, led by Anne K Kenworthy

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

  • Volker Kiessling

    Co-investigator on 1RM1GM164136-01, led by Anne K Kenworthy

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

  • Leonid Kagan

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI137080-09, led by Scott K Heysell; 3R01AI137080-09S1, led by Scott K Heysell

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

  • Brent A French

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL171377-03, led by Jonathan R Lindner

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

  • Steven K Malin

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK133598-03, led by Uta Erdbruegger

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Robert Vassallo

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL170961-04, led by Jie Sun

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

  • Christopher Charles Moore

    Co-investigator on 5U01AI192033-02, led by Scott K Heysell; 3U01AI192033-02S1, led by Scott K Heysell; 3U01AI192033-02S2, led by Scott K Heysell

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

  • Alison K Criss

    Co-investigator on 5T32AI007046-50, led by William A Petri

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • In Su Cheon

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL182700-01A1, led by Jie Sun

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

  • Mitchell H. Rosner

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK137937-03, led by Mark Douglas Okusa

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

  • Maribel Paredes Olortegui

    Co-investigator on 5D43TW010913-09, led by Margaret N Kosek; 3D43TW010913-09S1, led by Margaret N Kosek; 3D43TW010913-09S2, led by Margaret N Kosek

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

  • Stellah George Mpagama

    Co-investigator on 3D43TW012247-05S1, led by Scott K Heysell; 5D43TW012247-05, led by Scott K Heysell

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

  • Mark R Conaway

    Co-investigator on 5R03AI185854-02, led by Larry C Borish

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Peter W Heymann

    Co-investigator on 5R03AI185854-02, led by Larry C Borish

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