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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Funding
$12.1M
$12,087,155
Awards
28
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
35
29 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#14
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Vanderbilt University page.

Leads a grant in this department

29 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. Cody Siciliano

    Leads 1 award · $1,751,604

  2. Danny G. Winder

    Leads 1 award · $1,751,604

  3. Erin Calipari

    Leads 1 award · $1,751,604

  4. Jennifer Urbano Blackford

    Leads 1 award · $1,751,604

  5. David Aaron Jacobson

    Leads 3 awards · $1,586,625

    • 5R01DK144192-02Department: NIH department code
      Calcium Extrusion in the Context of Pancreatic Islet Function and Dysfunction
      $631,259
      award amount
    • 5R01DK136768-04Department: NIH department code
      Secretagogue and Gi/o-GPCR signaling through the islet Na+/K+-ATPase in health and diabetes
      $505,744
      award amount
    • 5R01DK129340-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Pancreatic Delta Cell Function and Dysfunction
      $449,622
      award amount

  6. Nancy Carrasco

    Leads 2 awards · $1,320,580

    • 1R01CA308406-01Department: NIH department code
      Treating Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Using the Sodium/Iodide Symporter to Deliver Targeted Internal Radiation Therapy along with Intravesical Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor and Oncolytic Reovirus

      Principal investigators: Nancy Carrasco (contact PI), Austin Kirschner

      $709,630
      award amount
    • 2R01GM114250-10A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of I- transport by the Na+/l- symporter (NIS)
      $610,950
      award amount

  7. Julio E Ayala

    Leads 2 awards · $1,286,496

    • 5U2CDK135073-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Center for Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes

      Principal investigators: David H Wasserman (contact PI), Erin Yu (contact PI), Julio E Ayala (contact PI), Owen P McGuinness (contact PI)

      $753,517
      award amount
    • 5R01DK132852-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms mediating metabolic benefits of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists
      $532,979
      award amount

  8. Owen P McGuinness

    Leads 2 awards · $859,771

    • 5U2CDK135073-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Center for Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes

      Principal investigators: David H Wasserman (contact PI), Erin Yu (contact PI), Julio E Ayala (contact PI), Owen P McGuinness (contact PI)

      $753,517
      award amount
    • 5R25DK137746-03Department: NIH department code
      Training in isotopic techniques for metabolic research

      Principal investigators: Owen P McGuinness (contact PI), Elizabeth Jane Parks

      $106,254
      award amount

  9. Bingshan Li

    Leads 1 award · $784,842

    • 5R01AG089717-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetics-informed dissection of human brain cell-cell communication in Alzheimer's disease progression

      Principal investigators: Bingshan Li (contact PI), Zhexing Wen

      $784,842
      award amount

  10. David H Wasserman

    Leads 1 award · $753,517

    • 5U2CDK135073-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Center for Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes

      Principal investigators: David H Wasserman (contact PI), Erin Yu (contact PI), Julio E Ayala (contact PI), Owen P McGuinness (contact PI)

      $753,517
      award amount

  11. Erin Yu

    Leads 1 award · $753,517

    • 5U2CDK135073-04Department: NIH department code
      Vanderbilt Center for Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes

      Principal investigators: David H Wasserman (contact PI), Erin Yu (contact PI), Julio E Ayala (contact PI), Owen P McGuinness (contact PI)

      $753,517
      award amount

  12. Terunaga Nakagawa

    Leads 1 award · $746,199

    • 2R01MH123474-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of functional modulation of glutamate receptors by their auxiliary subunits
      $746,199
      award amount

  13. Dale S Edgerton

    Leads 1 award · $678,201

    • 5R01DK018243-50Department: NIH department code
      Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenolysis - Role and Regulation

      Principal investigators: Dale S Edgerton (contact PI), Alan D Cherrington

      $678,201
      award amount

  14. Hassane S McHaourab

    Leads 1 award · $562,773

    • 5R35GM152382-03Department: NIH department code
      Structural Dynamics of Active Transporters
      $562,773
      award amount

  15. Rafael Arrojo E Drigo

    Leads 1 award · $514,800

    • 5R01DK138141-03Department: NIH department code
      Beta cell adaptation mechanisms during caloric restriction and ER stress
      $514,800
      award amount

  16. Antentor Othrell Hinton

    Leads 1 award · $512,849

    • 1R25GM166887-01Department: NIH department code
      E.M.P.O.W.E.R. (Electron Microscopy Program for Organellar Workflow Education and Research)

      Principal investigators: Antentor Othrell Hinton (contact PI), Jenny Schafer

      $512,849
      award amount

  17. Richard M O'Brien

    Leads 1 award · $499,602

    • 5T32DK007563-39Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary Training in Molecular Endocrinology
      $499,602
      award amount

  18. Erkan Karakas

    Leads 1 award · $435,875

    • 1R35GM161399-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural Insights into Calcium Signaling at ER-Mitochondria Contact Sites
      $435,875
      award amount

  19. Elma Zaganjor

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM154684-03Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming cell fate through nucleotide metabolism
      $396,250
      award amount

  20. Derek P Claxton

    Leads 1 award · $332,555

    • 5R01GM149686-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Mechanism of the Glucose-6-Phosphatase Catalytic Subunit 1
      $332,555
      award amount

  21. Kathryn Colbert Coate

    Leads 1 award · $172,234

    • 1R03DK147550-01Department: NIH department code
      CERS2-Dependent Sphingolipid Control of Human Beta-Cell Function and Resilience
      $172,234
      award amount

  22. David C Samuels

    Leads 1 award · $166,316

    • 5T32GM145734-05Department: NIH department code
      Training Program on Genetic Variation and Human Phenotypes

      Principal investigators: David C Samuels (contact PI), Jennifer Below

      $166,316
      award amount

  23. Landon M Clark

    Leads 1 award · $35,593

    • 5F30DK145130-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Mechanisms of Tfh/Germinal Center B cell Pathogenicity in Type 1 Diabetes
      $35,593
      award amount

  24. Yash Pershad

    Leads 1 award · $35,593

    • 1F30AG099331-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding dynamics and phenotypic consequences of clonal hematopoiesis caused by mosaic chromosomal alterations
      $35,593
      award amount

  25. Anna Marie Schornack

    Leads 1 award · $35,556

    • 1F31DK148143-01Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Glutamine in Pancreatic Alpha Cells
      $35,556
      award amount

  26. Bianca Alexandra Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $35,510

    • 5F31HL176154-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of CCR10 and CCR10+ Tregs in Hypertension
      $35,510
      award amount

  27. Hannah Lynn Waterman

    Leads 1 award · $35,474

    • 5F31DK142297-02Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of Morning Insulin Delivery on Hepatic Glucose Metabolism Later in the Day
      $35,474
      award amount

  28. Gai-Linn Besing

    Leads 1 award · $34,954

    • 1F31DK145043-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of FGF21 and macronutrient composition towards Glp1r agonist-induced weight loss
      $34,954
      award amount

  29. Juliann B Burkett

    Leads 1 award · $20,420

    • 5F31DK138714-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the Opposing Roles of Prostaglandin E2 Receptors, EP3 and EP4, in the Pathogenesis of Type One Diabetes
      $20,420
      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.

  • Zhexing Wen

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG089717-03, led by Bingshan Li

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Austin Kirschner

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA308406-01, led by Nancy Carrasco

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

  • Alan D Cherrington

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK018243-50, led by Dale S Edgerton

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jenny Schafer

    Co-investigator on 1R25GM166887-01, led by Antentor Othrell Hinton

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

  • Jennifer Below

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM145734-05, led by David C Samuels

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Elizabeth Jane Parks

    Co-investigator on 5R25DK137746-03, led by Owen P McGuinness

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