Engineering at Vanderbilt University

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Ethan Lippmann

   Leads 4 awards · $3,268,741

   • 4RF1NS130334-02Department: NIH department code

     Perivascular fibroblasts, vascular fibrosis, and their contributions to cerebral amyloid angiopathy

     Principal investigators: Ethan Lippmann (contact PI), Matthew Schrag

     $1,517,868

     award amount
   • 1R01AG092015-01Department: NIH department code

     Targeting brain myeloid cells with siRNA-lipid conjugates for treatment of Alzheimer's disease

     Principal investigators: Ethan Lippmann (contact PI), Craig Lewis Duvall

     $787,103

     award amount
   • 4R01NS129735-02Department: NIH department code

     STAT3 activation in astrocytes as a driver of neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

     Principal investigators: Ethan Lippmann (contact PI), Matthew Schrag

     $765,645

     award amount
   • 5R21NS137563-02Department: NIH department code

     Engineering developmentally-relevant Wnt signaling events to improve iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier models

     Principal investigators: Ethan Lippmann (contact PI), Jonathan Matthew Brunger

     $198,125

     award amount

2. Jie Ying Wu

   Leads 2 awards · $2,359,826

   • 1R01EB037685-01Department: NIH department code

     Surgical pathology-enabled augmented reality for head and neck tumor resection with deformation modeling
     $2,223,201

     award amount
   • 3R21EB036443-01S1Department: NIH department code

     Ethical Approaches to Informed Consent for Autonomous Robotic Assisted Surgery

     Principal investigators: Jie Ying Wu (contact PI), Elisa J Gordon

     $136,625

     award amount

3. John Tanner Wilson

   Leads 4 awards · $1,879,478

   • 5R01EB033822-04Department: NIH department code

     RIG-I Activating Nanoparticles for Immunopotentiation

     Principal investigators: John Tanner Wilson (contact PI), Anna Marie Pyle

     $597,471

     award amount
   • 5R01CA274675-04Department: NIH department code

     Toward Translation of an Immunotherapeutic Nanomedicine for Neuroblastoma
     $564,686

     award amount
   • 5R01CA266767-04Department: NIH department code

     Engineered Vaccines for Neoantigen Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy
     $491,618

     award amount
   • 5R01CA245134-06Department: NIH department code

     Expanding the Therapeutic Window of Nanoparticle STING Agonists for Cancer Immunotherapy
     $225,703

     award amount

4. Robert James Webster

   Leads 2 awards · $1,471,537

   • 5U01GM152538-03Department: NIH department code

     Mid-South REACH Hub

     Principal investigators: Robert James Webster (contact PI), Almesha L. Campbell, Charleson Sherard Bell, Jessica Sharon, Paula Sorrell

     $974,073

     award amount
   • 5R01EB035591-02Department: NIH department code

     A New Robot to Replace Hysterectomies with Minimally Invasive Uterine-Sparing Interventions
     $497,464

     award amount

5. Ipek Oguz

   Leads 2 awards · $1,216,289

   • 5R01HD109739-04Department: NIH department code

     A placenta-based strategy for improved clinical prediction of fetal growth trajectory using automated image analysis of placental morphology and vascularity

     Principal investigators: Ipek Oguz (contact PI), Nadav Schwartz

     $632,160

     award amount
   • 5R01EY033969-03Department: NIH department code

     Point-of-care ophthalmic diagnostic imaging of retinopathy of prematurity

     Principal investigators: Ipek Oguz (contact PI), Yuankai Kenny Tao

     $584,129

     award amount

6. Haoxiang Luo

   Leads 1 award · $742,323

   • 1R01HL171506-01A1Department: NIH department code

     The pulmonary visceral pleura (PVP) aortic valve
     $742,323

     award amount

7. Jack Noble

   Leads 1 award · $651,197

   • 1R01DC022099-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Development and validation of vision system for improved placement of cochlear implant electrode arrays
     $651,197

     award amount

8. Zhaohua Ding

   Leads 1 award · $460,430

   • 5R01NS129855-03Department: NIH department code

     Functional Connectome of Brain White Matter
     $460,430

     award amount

9. Jamey D. Young

   Leads 1 award · $392,982

   • 5T32DK101003-12Department: NIH department code

     Integrated Training in Engineering and Diabetes
     $392,982

     award amount

10. Justus Chukwunonso Ndukaife

    Leads 1 award · $383,200

    • 5R35GM150572-03Department: NIH department code

      Understanding the Heterogeneity of Nanoscale Extracellular Vesicles, Exomeres, and Supermeres using Next Generation Optical Nanotweezers
      $383,200

      award amount

11. Leon Bellan

    Leads 1 award · $226,877

    • 1R21MH136576-01A1Department: NIH department code

      A microphysiological model of the neurovascular unit capable of demonstrating neurovascular coupling
      $226,877

      award amount

12. Xiaoguang Dong

    Leads 1 award · $197,605

    • 5R21EB035200-02Department: NIH department code

      Wirelessly Actuated Ciliary Stent for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Cilia Dysfunction
      $197,605

      award amount

13. Clinton Michael Hasenour

    Leads 1 award · $119,711

    • 5K01DK135924-03Department: NIH department code

      In vivo hepato-renal metabolic flux dysregulation in obesity
      $119,711

      award amount

14. Alexander Kwiatkowski

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 5F32CA288044-02Department: NIH department code

      Engineering RIG-I Activating Nanoparticles for Glioblastoma Immunotherapy
      $74,284

      award amount

15. Thomas Zhihe Li

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30CA275020-03Department: NIH department code

      Risk stratifying indeterminate pulmonary nodules with jointly learned features from longitudinal radiologic and clinical big data
      $54,538

      award amount

16. Daiwei Lu

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31DK143735-01Department: NIH department code

      Modeling and Removing Visual Impairments for Endoscopic Kidney Stone Surgery
      $49,538

      award amount

17. Shannon Martello

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31CA298725-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Neutrophil-driven pro-recurrent niche formation in mammary adipose tissue
      $49,538

      award amount

18. Adam Abdulrahman

    Leads 1 award · $35,017

    • 1F30AG094191-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Targeted lipid-siRNA complexes for SPP1-silencing in Alzheimer's Disease
      $35,017

      award amount

19. Sarah Comer

    Leads 1 award · $34,980

    • 1F31AI194721-01Department: NIH department code

      The role of cytochrome bd in supporting flagellar motility in E. coli
      $34,980

      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.

• Matthew Schrag

  Co-investigator on 4RF1NS130334-02, led by Ethan Lippmann; 4R01NS129735-02, led by Ethan Lippmann

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

• Almesha L. Campbell

  Co-investigator on 5U01GM152538-03, led by Robert James Webster

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jackson State University · Miscellaneous (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Charleson Sherard Bell

  Co-investigator on 5U01GM152538-03, led by Robert James Webster

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

• Jessica Sharon

  Co-investigator on 5U01GM152538-03, led by Robert James Webster

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

• Paula Sorrell

  Co-investigator on 5U01GM152538-03, led by Robert James Webster

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

• Craig Lewis Duvall

  Co-investigator on 1R01AG092015-01, led by Ethan Lippmann

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Vanderbilt University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 5 awards)

• Nadav Schwartz

  Co-investigator on 5R01HD109739-04, led by Ipek Oguz

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

• Anna Marie Pyle

  Co-investigator on 5R01EB033822-04, led by John Tanner Wilson

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Yale University · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Yuankai Kenny Tao

  Co-investigator on 5R01EY033969-03, led by Ipek Oguz

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

• Jonathan Matthew Brunger

  Co-investigator on 5R21NS137563-02, led by Ethan Lippmann

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Vanderbilt University · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Elisa J Gordon

  Co-investigator on 3R21EB036443-01S1, led by Jie Ying Wu

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center (no department on record, 1 award)