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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Funding
$9.6M
$9,588,117
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
20
15 lead a grant here, 5 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 Chemistry row of the Vanderbilt University page.

Leads a grant in this department

15 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. Brian O Bachmann

    Leads 2 awards · $2,316,135

    • 4R01CA226833-08Department: NIH department code
      Single Cell Methods for Bioeffector Discovery and Analysis

      Principal investigators: Brian O Bachmann (contact PI), Jonathan Michael Irish

      $1,884,798
      award amount
    • 5T32GM149371-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Chemical Biology Interface Training Program

      Principal investigators: Brian O Bachmann (contact PI), Lars Plate (contact PI)

      $431,337
      award amount

  2. Jens Meiler

    Leads 1 award · $1,162,421

  3. Jeffrey Nicholas Johnston

    Leads 2 awards · $1,135,235

    • 5R01HL181098-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Mirror-Image Natural Products as Antiarrhythmic Therapeutics
      $712,666
      award amount
    • 5R35GM156307-02Department: NIH department code
      New Methods for Therapeutic Development
      $422,569
      award amount

  4. Lars Plate

    Leads 2 awards · $906,591

    • 5R35GM133552-07Department: NIH department code
      Coordination of chaperone interactions that dictate protein folding and trafficking
      $475,254
      award amount
    • 5T32GM149371-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Chemical Biology Interface Training Program

      Principal investigators: Brian O Bachmann (contact PI), Lars Plate (contact PI)

      $431,337
      award amount

  5. Frederick R Haselton

    Leads 1 award · $828,131

    • 2R01AI157827-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Adaptive molecular diagnostics for respiratory pathogens: Applying COVID lessons to broader clinical challenges

      Principal investigators: Frederick R Haselton (contact PI), Jonathan E Schmitz

      $828,131
      award amount

  6. Benjamin Patrick Brown

    Leads 1 award · $475,500

    • 5DP1DA058349-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing a computational platform for induced-fit and chemogenetic drug design
      $475,500
      award amount

  7. Steven D. Townsend

    Leads 1 award · $451,462

    • 5R35GM133602-08Department: NIH department code
      Bioorganic Approaches Toward Novel Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapeutics
      $451,462
      award amount

  8. Allison Sara Walker

    Leads 2 awards · $440,637

    • 5R35GM146987-05Department: NIH department code
      Machine learning approaches for the discovery, repurposing, and optimization of natural products with therapeutic potential
      $396,250
      award amount
    • 3R35GM146987-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Machine learning approaches for the discovery, repurposing, and optimization of natural products with therapeutic potential
      $44,387
      award amount

  9. Rena A. S. Robinson

    Leads 1 award · $415,549

  10. Lauren E Buchanan

    Leads 1 award · $395,943

    • 5R35GM155058-03Department: NIH department code
      Probing protein structure and aggregation in complex environments with 2D IR spectroscopy
      $395,943
      award amount

  11. Alexander W. Schuppe

    Leads 1 award · $395,881

    • 5R35GM156918-02Department: NIH department code
      Synthesis and Modification of Natural Products through Inert Bond Cleavage Reactions
      $395,881
      award amount

  12. Nathan David Schley

    Leads 1 award · $385,398

    • 5R35GM147697-05Department: NIH department code
      Iridium complexes for the activation and functionalization of carbon hydrogen-bonds in unactivated substrates
      $385,398
      award amount

  13. Zhongyue Yang

    Leads 1 award · $369,052

    • 5R35GM146982-05Department: NIH department code
      Developing Computational Tools for Predicting and Designing Function-Enhancing Enzyme Variants
      $369,052
      award amount

  14. Darryl J. Bornhop

    Leads 1 award · $307,189

    • 5R33CA291185-03Department: NIH department code
      Quantification of molecular interactions across the matrix spectrum enables cancer research.
      $307,189
      award amount

  15. Claiborne Wilson Tydings

    Leads 1 award · $34,330

    • 5F31CA290735-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting EGFR Through Modern Peptide Modeling and Design
      $34,330
      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.