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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$19.9M
$19,878,261
Awards
40
FY2025 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
30
22 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
of 86 · 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 Physiology row of the University of Virginia page.

Leads a grant in this department

22 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. Ling Qi

    Leads 5 awards · $2,911,614

    • 5R01AG089640-02Department: NIH department code
      ERAD-STING Crosstalk in Microglia: Unraveling the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Ling Qi (contact PI), Zhen Zhao

      $800,166
      award amount
    • 5R01DK120330-07Department: NIH department code
      Novel role of hepatic SEL1L-HRD1 ERAD in bile acid metabolism

      Principal investigators: Ling Qi (contact PI), Deyu Fang

      $700,085
      award amount
    • 1R01NS138119-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Underlying the Pathogenesis of SEL1L-HRD1 ERAD Disease Variants

      Principal investigators: Ling Qi (contact PI), Shengyi Sun

      $654,844
      award amount
    • 5R01DK137794-02Department: NIH department code
      A central role of SEL1L-HRD1 ERAD in LPL maturation in adipocytes
      $389,215
      award amount
    • 5R01DK132786-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of ER-Protein Quality Control in Podocytes
      $367,304
      award amount
  2. Gary K Owens

    Leads 3 awards · $2,400,550

    • 5R01HL164367-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of IL-6 trans signaling in atherosclerosis development and late-stage pathogenesis
      $805,870
      award amount
    • 5R01HL166161-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Smooth Muscle Cell Insulin Resistance and Systemic Metabolic Dysfunction in Atherosclerosis Development and Late Stage Lesion Pathogenesis
      $801,758
      award amount
    • 5R01HL156849-04Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial Cell to Mesenchymal Cell Transitions Play a Critical Biological Sex- and Aging-Dependent Role in Formation and Maintenance of the Acta2+ Atherosclerotic Lesion Protective Fibrous Cap
      $792,922
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL007284-49, led by Brant E Isakson.

  3. Brant E Isakson

    Leads 3 awards · $2,239,194

    • 5T32HL007284-49Department: NIH department code
      Basic Cardiovascular Research Training Grant

      Principal investigators: Brant E Isakson (contact PI), Gary K Owens

      $990,852
      award amount
    • 5R01HL171997-02Department: NIH department code
      Panx1-PIEZO1 Interactions Regulate Renin Release
      $655,773
      award amount
    • 5R01HL137112-07Department: NIH department code
      Purinergic Regulation of Veinous Endothelial Permeability

      Principal investigators: Brant E Isakson (contact PI), Michael H. Koval

      $592,569
      award amount
  4. Swapnil K. Sonkusare

    Leads 3 awards · $1,885,723

    • 5R01HL142808-07Department: NIH department code
      Paracrine TNF signaling impairs endothelial TRPV4 microdomains in obesity
      $681,460
      award amount
    • 2R01HL146914-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Flow-Activated Calcium Signaling Microdomains in Small Pulmonary Arteries
      $670,511
      award amount
    • 5R01HL167208-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel Calcium Signaling Nanodomains in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
      $533,752
      award amount
  5. Huiwang Ai

    Leads 3 awards · $1,644,213

    • 5R01EB033172-04Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescent Indicators for Imaging Synaptic Zinc in Cortical Sound Processing

      Principal investigators: Huiwang Ai (contact PI), Thanos Tzounopoulos

      $668,814
      award amount
    • 4R01AG077773-02Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescent Redox Indicators to Image Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer's Disease
      $514,103
      award amount
    • 5R01EB035430-02Department: NIH department code
      Next-Generation ATP-Independent Luciferases, Luciferins, and Bioluminescent Calcium Indicators
      $461,296
      award amount
  6. Ilya Levental

    Leads 2 awards · $1,234,687

    • 1R01AI183581-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical and functional coupling of protein condensates to ordered lipid domains in T-cells
      $658,657
      award amount
    • 2R35GM134949-07Department: NIH department code
      The functional organization of mammalian membranes
      $576,030
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1T32GM158467-01, led by Jochen Zimmer.

  7. Anne K Kenworthy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,172,604

    • 5R01HL168258-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of Non-Conventional Caveolins
      $715,483
      award amount
    • 5R01GM151635-03Department: NIH department code
      Structural Diversity of Caveolins
      $457,121
      award amount
  8. Seham Ebrahim

    Leads 2 awards · $883,565

    • 1R01HD118160-01Department: NIH department code
      Membrane protein-mediated signaling as a driver of spermiogenesis- Investigating new molecules and mechanisms
      $484,967
      award amount
    • 1R35GM156345-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosensing mechanisms at the intestinal surface
      $398,598
      award amount
  9. Gloria Sheynkman

    Leads 2 awards · $799,823

    • 5R35GM142647-05Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the functional diversification mechanisms of transcription factor isoforms involved in stem cell differentiation
      $403,750
      award amount
    • 5R33CA281919-02Department: NIH department code
      An integrated functional proteomics platform for accelerated discovery of isoform-specific determinants of cancer
      $396,073
      award amount
  10. Jochen Zimmer

    Leads 2 awards · $738,914

    • 5R35GM144130-04Department: NIH department code
      Synthesis, secretion and assembly of extracellular complex carbohydrates in Gram-negative bacteria
      $525,734
      award amount
    • 1T32GM158467-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

      Principal investigators: Jochen Zimmer (contact PI), Ilya Levental, Kristen M Naegle

      $213,180
      award amount
  11. Muge Neslihan Kuyumcu-Martinez

    Leads 1 award · $728,985

    • 5R01HL157780-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of RNA binding proteins in heart development and congenital heart defects
      $728,985
      award amount
  12. John Hackett Bushweller

    Leads 1 award · $664,086

  13. Ming-Feng Tsai

    Leads 1 award · $584,640

    • 5R35GM151958-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of the mitochondrial calcium transport system
      $584,640
      award amount
  14. Ahmad Jomaa

    Leads 1 award · $444,125

    • 1R35GM160490-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Mechanisms of Protein Sorting and Localization to Organelles
      $444,125
      award amount
  15. Stefanie Redemann

    Leads 2 awards · $410,853

    • 5R01GM144668-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of microtubule dynamics in midzone driven chromosome segregation in anaphase
      $335,173
      award amount
    • 3R01GM144668-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of microtubule dynamics in midzone driven chromosome segregation in anaphase
      $75,680
      award amount
  16. Huan Bao

    Leads 1 award · $400,530

    • 1R35GM156801-01Department: NIH department code
      Designer nanodiscs to probe and reprogram membrane biology
      $400,530
      award amount
  17. Jarred Marcus Whitlock

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00HD110609-03Department: NIH department code
      Resolving the mechanism of osteoclast multinucleation and signaling in bone remodeling
      $249,000
      award amount
  18. Kandice Rose Levental

    Leads 1 award · $186,250

    • 1R21CA300756-01Department: NIH department code
      Tools for probing the physical paralipidome of membrane proteins
      $186,250
      award amount
  19. Huilun Wang

    Leads 1 award · $131,166

    • 1K99HD118580-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Novel Role of SEL1L-HRD1 ERAD in Neurodevelopment
      $131,166
      award amount
  20. Yen-Lin Chen

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 5K99DK138271-02Department: NIH department code
      Lymphatic Endothelial Piezo1-TRPV4 Channel Signaling in Obesity
      $90,000
      award amount
  21. Skylar Loeb

    Leads 1 award · $38,992

    • 1F31HL176103-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Lymphatic Endothelial Alpha Globin in Heart Failure
      $38,992
      award amount
  22. Sze Ham Chan

    Leads 1 award · $38,747

    • 5F31AI181453-02Department: NIH department code
      Mutual regulation between membrane rafts and protein condensates in T cell activation
      $38,747
      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.