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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Funding
$7.2M
$7,202,954
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
18
13 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#46
of 132 · 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 Pharmacology row of the UT Southwestern Medical Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Xuewu Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,131,598

    • 5R01CA273595-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel regulatory mechanisms and agonists of STING

      Principal investigators: Xuewu Zhang (contact PI), Chuo Chen, Xiaochen Bai

      $680,598
      award amount
    • 5R35GM130289-08Department: NIH department code
      Structures and mechanisms of transmembrane receptors
      $451,000
      award amount

  2. Elisabeth D Martinez

    Leads 3 awards · $1,083,666

    • 1R21CA313397-01Department: NIH department code
      Jumonji KDM5 enzymes mediate resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in Breast Cancer
      $426,828
      award amount
    • 1R21CA313738-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Jumonji KDM4A during the development of small cell lung cancer in GEMMs
      $426,828
      award amount
    • 5R21CA280319-02Department: NIH department code
      Jumonji KDM4A drives targetable oncogenic programs in small cell lung cancer
      $230,010
      award amount

  3. James J Collins

    Leads 1 award · $819,288

    • 5R01AI167967-04Department: NIH department code
      Drug Target Discovery, Validation, and Prioritization for Schistosomiasis

      Principal investigators: James J Collins (contact PI), Margaret A. Phillips

      $819,288
      award amount

  4. Sarah Huen

    Leads 1 award · $601,608

    • 5R01DK135555-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining intra-renal ketone metabolism in kidney health and disease
      $601,608
      award amount

  5. Angelique Wright Whitehurst

    Leads 1 award · $581,106

    • 5R01CA289534-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Models of Testis Specific Serine Kinase 6: A Novel Therapeutic Target in Colorectal Cancer
      $581,106
      award amount

  6. David R Corey

    Leads 1 award · $568,352

    • 2R35GM118103-11Department: NIH department code
      Recognition of Cellular Targets by single and double-stranded nucleic acids
      $568,352
      award amount

  7. Yuh Min Chook

    Leads 1 award · $521,854

    • 2R35GM141461-06Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical and cellular functions of Karyopherins
      $521,854
      award amount

  8. Benjamin P. Weaver

    Leads 1 award · $471,500

    • 5R35GM133755-08Department: NIH department code
      Proteolytic Mechanisms Mediating Cell State Transitions in Development and Stress Responses
      $471,500
      award amount

  9. Jihan K. Osborne

    Leads 1 award · $441,400

    • 5R35GM160161-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of how RNA-directed feedback loops coordinate wound healing and regeneration
      $441,400
      award amount

  10. Courtney Megan Schroeder

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5R35GM156807-02Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary Diversification of Cytoskeletal Proteins for Tissue-Specialized Roles
      $410,000
      award amount

  11. Erdal Toprak

    Leads 1 award · $373,282

    • 5R01GM125748-09Department: NIH department code
      Mapping epistatic interactions in molecular evolution of antibiotic resistance
      $373,282
      award amount

  12. Melanie H. Cobb

    Leads 1 award · $123,000

    • 5R21MH139200-02Department: NIH department code
      Phosphorylation-mediated regulation of Arc interactions with the AMPA receptor endocytic machinery

      Principal investigators: Melanie H. Cobb (contact PI), Joseph P Albanesi, Kimberly M. Huber

      $123,000
      award amount

  13. Lauren B Coco

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32AI197456-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering molecular and cellular targets of BATT, a recently discovered schistosome pheromone
      $76,300
      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.