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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Funding
$9.2M
$9,244,473
Awards
22
FY2026 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
17
14 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#18
of 80 · 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the Vanderbilt University page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Craig Lewis Duvall

    Leads 4 awards · $2,050,193

    • 5R01EB019409-09Department: NIH department code
      Bioresorbable Polythioketal Urethane Wound Dressings
      $563,442
      award amount
    • 5R01AR078666-05Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Adhesive RNA Interference Nanoparticles to Block Progression of Posttraumatic and Spontaneous Osteoarthritis.
      $513,430
      award amount
    • 5R01AR083410-03Department: NIH department code
      Carrier Free siRNA Conjugates as Disease Modifying Osteoarthritis Drugs
      $500,235
      award amount
    • 5R33HL181752-02Department: NIH department code
      Drug Coated Balloon Peptide Delivery to Block Post-angioplasty Restenosis in PAD
      $473,086
      award amount

  2. William D Merryman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,973,409

    • 5R01HL178026-02Department: NIH department code
      Decoupling mitral valve-left ventricular fibrotic remodeling in degenerative mitral regurgitation via serotonin 2B receptor

      Principal investigators: William D Merryman (contact PI), Giovanni Ferrari

      $711,406
      award amount
    • 5R01HL172247-03Department: NIH department code
      Systemically restricted 5-HT2B antagonists for pulmonary arterial hypertension
      $666,512
      award amount
    • 5R01HL170546-03Department: NIH department code
      Cadherin-11 in calcific aortic valve disease
      $595,491
      award amount

  3. Christos Constantinidis

    Leads 2 awards · $1,261,835

    • 5R01EY036089-02Department: NIH department code
      Cholinergic influence on visual cognitive processing

      Principal investigators: Christos Constantinidis (contact PI), David T Blake

      $667,449
      award amount
    • 5R01EY017077-15Department: NIH department code
      Neurophysiological Effects of Training in Visual Cognitive Tasks
      $594,386
      award amount

  4. Brett C Byram

    Leads 2 awards · $1,177,900

    • 1R01CA306353-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Improved Ultrasound for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening
      $634,953
      award amount
    • 1R01EB037403-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transcranial Functional Ultrasound in Adult Humans
      $542,947
      award amount

  5. Adam W Anderson

    Leads 1 award · $596,096

    • 5R01NS136743-02Department: NIH department code
      Improving the sensitivity and specificity of diffusion MRI
      $596,096
      award amount

  6. Xin Maizie Zhou

    Leads 2 awards · $510,298

    • 5R35GM146960-05Department: NIH department code
      Detecting structural variants in a large population of samples through high-throughput sequencing data
      $387,298
      award amount
    • 3R35GM146960-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Detecting structural variants in a large population of samples through high-throughput sequencing data
      $123,000
      award amount

  7. Jonathan Matthew Brunger

    Leads 1 award · $399,680

    • 5R01AR083437-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineered cells as agents of arthritis therapy governed by artificial signaling
      $399,680
      award amount

  8. Daniel Luis Gonzales

    Leads 1 award · $394,915

    • 1R21NS144682-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating and Augmenting Cholinergic Signaling for Enhanced Neuroprosthetic Performance
      $394,915
      award amount

  9. Michael Ian Miga

    Leads 1 award · $346,539

    • 2T32EB021937-11Department: NIH department code
      Training Program for Innovative Engineering Research in Surgery and Intervention

      Principal investigators: Michael Ian Miga (contact PI), Dario J Englot

      $346,539
      award amount

  10. Andrea Kristine Locke

    Leads 1 award · $328,152

    • 1R01HD121700-01Department: NIH department code
      Optical culture-free platform for direct monitoring of vaginal health
      $328,152
      award amount

  11. Ghassan Sebastian Peter Makhoul

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F31NS141612-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging the Interictal Suppression Hypothesis to Define Epileptic Networks
      $55,114
      award amount

  12. Haatef Pourmotabbed

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31NS143413-02Department: NIH department code
      State-dependent connectivity of impaired autonomic brain networks underlying cardiorespiratory dysfunction in epilepsy
      $50,114
      award amount

  13. Madeline R Spetz

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AG105026-01Department: NIH department code
      Tau-sensitive synthetic receptors for mitigating pathologic tau signatures in Alzheimer's disease
      $50,114
      award amount

  14. William Bryan Livingston

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HL172640-03Department: NIH department code
      Serotonin-2B receptor in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
      $50,114
      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.