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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Funding
$10.2M
$10,241,354
Awards
25
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
20
18 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the Vanderbilt University page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Todd R Graham

    Leads 2 awards · $1,240,607

    • 1R01HL186183-01Department: NIH department code
      Membrane asymmetry in cardiometabolic disease

      Principal investigators: Todd R Graham (contact PI), John Michael Stafford

      $753,327
      award amount
    • 5R35GM144123-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of membrane homeostasis through protein and lipid transport
      $487,280
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32GM137793-06, led by James G. Patton.

  2. Carl Hirschie Johnson

    Leads 2 awards · $1,205,641

    • 1R35GM161824-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Evolution of Circadian Clocks and Photoperiodism
      $648,480
      award amount
    • 1R01NS147959-01Department: NIH department code
      A novel BRET system to optimize and image in vivo recording of neural activity in freely behaving animals
      $557,161
      award amount

  3. Douglas G McMahon

    Leads 2 awards · $1,090,025

    • 5R01MH130537-04Department: NIH department code
      Photoperiodic Programming of Monoamine Brain Circuits

      Principal investigators: Douglas G McMahon (contact PI), Brad Alan Grueter

      $654,150
      award amount
    • 5R35GM156224-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Circadian Entrainment and Plasticity
      $435,875
      award amount

  4. Antonis Rokas

    Leads 2 awards · $994,553

    • 5R01AI153356-05Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the phenotypic and genomic traits that underlie the evolution of pathogenicity differences among Aspergillus fumigatus and its close relatives
      $669,550
      award amount
    • 5T32GM150407-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational Evolutionary Approaches to Disease
      $325,003
      award amount

  5. Kendal Broadie

    Leads 2 awards · $817,252

    • 5R01NS131557-03Department: NIH department code
      In Vivo Analyses of Kinase Signaling in Learning/Memory Circuitry
      $409,383
      award amount
    • 5R01NS132867-03Department: NIH department code
      Glial roles in experience-dependent critical period remodeling
      $407,869
      award amount

  6. Brandt F Eichman

    Leads 2 awards · $670,795

    • 5R35GM136401-07Department: NIH department code
      The DNA replication-repair interface: mechanisms and regulation
      $581,187
      award amount
    • 3R35GM136401-06S1Department: NIH department code
      The DNA replication-repair interface: mechanisms and regulation
      $89,608
      award amount

  7. Laurence J Zwiebel

    Leads 1 award · $493,213

    • 5R01AI173025-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of Ionotropic Receptors in Mating and Blood Feeding in Anopheles mosquitoes
      $493,213
      award amount

  8. Lauren Parker Jackson

    Leads 2 awards · $486,036

    • 5R35GM119525-10Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of coat assembly and regulation in membrane trafficking pathways
      $408,138
      award amount
    • 3R35GM119525-10S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of coat assembly and regulation in membrane trafficking pathways
      $77,898
      award amount

  9. Ann Thomas Tate

    Leads 1 award · $435,637

    • 5R35GM138007-07Department: NIH department code
      The influence of coevolutionary feedbacks on the origins and maintenance of genetic pleiotropy
      $435,637
      award amount

  10. James G. Patton

    Leads 1 award · $431,337

  11. Jared Nordman

    Leads 1 award · $427,618

    • 5R35GM128650-08Department: NIH department code
      Developmental control of replication initiation and genome stability
      $427,618
      award amount

  12. Amanda Lea

    Leads 1 award · $396,127

    • 5R35GM147267-05Department: NIH department code
      Early life environmental effects: molecular mechanisms and inter-individual variation
      $396,127
      award amount

  13. Gianni Marcello Castiglione

    Leads 1 award · $396,127

    • 5R35GM155367-03Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary Mechanisms of Enhanced Environmental Stress Resistance
      $396,127
      award amount

  14. Megan Grace Behringer

    Leads 1 award · $396,127

    • 5R35GM150625-04Department: NIH department code
      Using Experimental Evolution to Evaluate Environmental Effects on Microbial Mutation and Adaptation
      $396,127
      award amount

  15. Katherine Louise Friedman

    Leads 1 award · $342,570

    • 1R01GM157166-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of repair pathway choice at persistent double-strand breaks in yeast
      $342,570
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32GM137793-06, led by James G. Patton.

  16. Marie Suver

    Leads 1 award · $333,101

    • 5R01NS140174-02Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and circuit basis for flexible control of sensory acquisition
      $333,101
      award amount

  17. Logan Phelps Treat

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI191760-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Acquisition of essential nutrient lysine by Staphylococcus aureus during invasive infection
      $50,114
      award amount

  18. Olivia Nunn

    Leads 1 award · $34,474

    • 5F31NS141622-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the role of a premotor cell type for active sensor control in Drosophila
      $34,474
      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.