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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Public Health at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$12.8M
$12,846,838
Awards
20
FY2026 NIH awards in Public Health
Principal investigators
27
16 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#34
of 126 · 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 Public Health row of the UT Health Science Center Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Rebeca Wong

    Leads 4 awards · $2,783,379

    • 5R01AG018016-20Department: NIH department code
      The Mexican Health Aging Study (MHAS)
      $988,101
      award amount
    • 5P30AG097142-02Department: NIH department code
      Center for AD/ADRD Population Aging and Social Studies (CAPAS)

      Principal investigators: Amelie G Ramirez (contact PI), Rebeca Wong (contact PI), Timothy Reistetter (contact PI), Fernando Riosmena

      $740,204
      award amount
    • 3R01AG018016-20S1Department: NIH department code
      The Mexican Health Aging Study (MHAS)
      $688,720
      award amount
    • 5R25AG095799-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing cross-national research on aging and cognitive function: English/Spanish courses with the Mexican Health and Aging Study and HRS/HCAP global partner studies

      Principal investigators: Rebeca Wong (contact PI), Joseph Saenz, Silvia Elena De La Milagrosa Mejia-Arango

      $366,354
      award amount

  2. Janelle Rios

    Leads 1 award · $1,623,830

    • 5U45ES019360-17Department: NIH department code
      Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (P2R) Consortium
      $1,623,830
      award amount

  3. Bing Yu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,481,275

    • 5R01HL173837-02Department: NIH department code
      Proteomic profiling of heart failure in Hispanics/Latinos
      $794,408
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168683-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Determinants of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Multi-ethnic Populations
      $686,867
      award amount

  4. Alanna C Morrison

    Leads 2 awards · $1,377,683

    • 5R01HL139553-07Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of Whole Genome Sequence and Hemostasis Phenotypes

      Principal investigators: Alanna C Morrison (contact PI), Nicholas L Smith, Paul Stefan De Vries

      $690,621
      award amount
    • 5R01HL141291-06Department: NIH department code
      Using genomics and functional biology to understand fibrinogen and factor XIII and their effects on thrombotic diseases

      Principal investigators: Alanna C Morrison (contact PI), Alisa S. Wolberg

      $687,062
      award amount

  5. Vasan Ramachandran

    Leads 2 awards · $1,260,199

    • 4R01AG079390-02Department: NIH department code
      Aortic stiffness, wave reflection, and cerebrovascular flow pulsatility: relations with brain small vessel disease and cognitive function in a middle-aged cohort

      Principal investigators: Vasan Ramachandran (contact PI), Gary Frank Mitchell

      $659,226
      award amount
    • 5R01AG075703-05Department: NIH department code
      Epidemiology of blood pressure responses to perturbations: Correlates and prognosis for vascular risk, end-organ damage, cognitive aging and preclinical Alzheimer's disease
      $600,973
      award amount

  6. Amelie G Ramirez

    Leads 1 award · $740,204

  7. Timothy Reistetter

    Leads 1 award · $740,204

  8. Qian Xiao

    Leads 1 award · $736,403

    • 2R01AG063946-05Department: NIH department code
      Twenty-four hour patterns of light and activity and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: interplay with multi-omics biomarkers and AD pathogenesis pathways
      $736,403
      award amount

  9. Miryoung Lee

    Leads 1 award · $662,934

    • 5R01AG078452-04Department: NIH department code
      Genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolic effects on skeletal health in Mexican Americans

      Principal investigators: Miryoung Lee (contact PI), Nahid J. Rianon

      $662,934
      award amount

  10. Anna Victoria Wilkinson

    Leads 1 award · $651,913

    • 5R01MD017280-05Department: NIH department code
      Social Media, Acculturation and E-cigarette Use among Mexican American College Students in South Texas

      Principal investigators: Anna Victoria Wilkinson (contact PI), Alexandra Loukas

      $651,913
      award amount

  11. Fuqing Wu

    Leads 1 award · $544,634

    • 5R01AI192873-02Department: NIH department code
      A wastewater approach to viral transmission, evolution, and ecology
      $544,634
      award amount

  12. Victor Lopez Del Amo

    Leads 1 award · $455,157

    • 5R01AI187493-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing CRISPR-Based Genome Editing Strategies for managing Aedes aegypti mosquito populations
      $455,157
      award amount

  13. A.j. Agopian

    Leads 1 award · $427,500

  14. Jayandra Jung Himali

    Leads 1 award · $427,486

    • 2R56AG062531-05A1Department: NIH department code
      The Sleep and Dementia Consortium: a harmonized resource for studying the contributions of poor sleep to Incident Alzheimer's disease and related dementia
      $427,486
      award amount

  15. Goo Jun

    Leads 1 award · $296,320

    • 1R03HD120904-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Maternal Structural Variations and Structural Birth Defects
      $296,320
      award amount

  16. Xiaojing Wang

    Leads 1 award · $118,125

    • 1R21HL184221-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrating long-read and short-read RNA sequencing to uncover transcriptomic complexity in healthy and diseased hearts
      $118,125
      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.

  • Fernando Riosmena

    Co-investigator on 5P30AG097142-02, led by Amelie G Ramirez and Rebeca Wong and Timothy Reistetter

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Nicholas L Smith

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL139553-07, led by Alanna C Morrison

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Paul Stefan De Vries

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL139553-07, led by Alanna C Morrison

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Alisa S. Wolberg

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL141291-06, led by Alanna C Morrison

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Nahid J. Rianon

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG078452-04, led by Miryoung Lee

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

  • Gary Frank Mitchell

    Co-investigator on 4R01AG079390-02, led by Vasan Ramachandran

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

  • Alexandra Loukas

    Co-investigator on 5R01MD017280-05, led by Anna Victoria Wilkinson

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

  • Charles J Shumate

    Co-investigator on 5U01DD001309-04, led by A.j. Agopian

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

  • Philip Lupo

    Co-investigator on 5U01DD001309-04, led by A.j. Agopian

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Joseph Saenz

    Co-investigator on 5R25AG095799-02, led by Rebeca Wong

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

  • Silvia Elena De La Milagrosa Mejia-Arango

    Co-investigator on 5R25AG095799-02, led by Rebeca Wong

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