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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Other Basic Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

Funding
$11.9M
$11,920,722
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Other Basic Sciences
Principal investigators
34
22 lead a grant here, 12 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 Other Basic Sciences row of the Virginia Commonwealth University page.

Leads a grant in this department

22 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. Paul B Fisher

    Leads 2 awards · $4,466,505

  2. Xiang-Yang Shawn Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $3,074,540

    • 5P01CA275740-03Department: NIH department code
      ExpLoiting thErapeutic VulnerAbilities in hepaTocEllular carcinoma (ELEVATE)

      Principal investigators: Arun J Sanyal (contact PI), Devanand Sarkar (contact PI), Jolene J Windle (contact PI), Nolan Wages (contact PI), Paul B Fisher (contact PI), Xiang-Yang Shawn Wang (contact PI)

      $2,647,332
      award amount
    • 5R01DE033686-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting immunostimulatory microbial pattern recognition to improve head and neck cancer therapy
      $427,208
      award amount

  3. Devanand Sarkar

    Leads 2 awards · $2,877,955

  4. Arun J Sanyal

    Leads 1 award · $2,647,332

  5. Jolene J Windle

    Leads 1 award · $2,647,332

  6. Nolan Wages

    Leads 1 award · $2,647,332

  7. Lauren Ashley Cowart

    Leads 2 awards · $1,123,416

    • 1R01CA312896-01Department: NIH department code
      Atypical Sphingolipids in healthy and diseased liver

      Principal investigators: Lauren Ashley Cowart (contact PI), David John Montefusco

      $634,062
      award amount
    • 1S10OD038303-01A1Department: NIH department code
      SCIEX 7500+ system - QTRAP
      $489,354
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AR083443-03, led by Brian W. Wattenberg.

  8. Hermine H Maes

    Leads 1 award · $685,293

  9. Daniel C Bullard

    Leads 1 award · $654,331

    • 5K12GM093857-16Department: NIH department code
      Virginia Commonwealth University IRACDA

      Principal investigators: Daniel C Bullard (contact PI), John J Ryan

      $654,331
      award amount

  10. Brian W. Wattenberg

    Leads 1 award · $638,242

  11. Can Emre Senkal

    Leads 1 award · $437,446

    • 5R01GM160681-02Department: NIH department code
      C18-Ceramide as an essential factor in iron dependent cell death
      $437,446
      award amount

  12. Sandeep Kumar Singh

    Leads 1 award · $410,097

    • 5R01NS126504-05Department: NIH department code
      S1P-S1PR1 in bidirectional Neuron-Astrocyte communications
      $410,097
      award amount

  13. Gea-Ny Tseng

    Leads 1 award · $406,223

    • 5R01HL163101-04Department: NIH department code
      Protein S-Palmitoylation in the Heart: Function and Regulation in Health and Disease

      Principal investigators: Gea-Ny Tseng (contact PI), Beatrix Magdalena Ueberheide

      $406,223
      award amount

  14. Javier Gonzalez-Maeso

    Leads 1 award · $402,159

    • 5R01MH084894-16Department: NIH department code
      Function of GPCR heteromeric complexes in brain
      $402,159
      award amount

  15. Zheng Fu

    Leads 1 award · $399,187

    • 1R21CA296691-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Explore a novel therapeutic approach in advanced prostate cancer
      $399,187
      award amount

  16. Sarah Spiegel

    Leads 1 award · $388,125

    • 5R35GM152058-03Department: NIH department code
      Ins and outs of the bioactive sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate
      $388,125
      award amount

  17. Rebecca Kelley Martin

    Leads 1 award · $375,114

    • 2R25GM089614-15Department: NIH department code
      Virginia Commonwealth University Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program
      $375,114
      award amount

  18. Qinglian Liu

    Leads 1 award · $320,043

    • 5R01GM098592-13Department: NIH department code
      Structural and functional studies of Hsp70/Hsp110 molecular chaperones
      $320,043
      award amount

  19. Jinze Liu

    Leads 1 award · $310,500

    • 1R03DE036362-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Dissection of Pathogenic Endotypes and Therapeutic Mechanisms in Sjögren's Disease
      $310,500
      award amount

  20. Dana Lapato

    Leads 1 award · $156,930

    • 5K01MH131847-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic architecture of transdiagnostic psychosis symptom dimensions
      $156,930
      award amount

  21. Sumit Saha

    Leads 1 award · $44,736

    • 5F99CA305526-02Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming Liver Macrophages for Sex-based Hepatocellular Carcinoma Immunotherapy
      $44,736
      award amount

  22. Emily Kate Zboril

    Leads 1 award · $44,544

    • 5F31CA290944-03Department: NIH department code
      Elacestrant in breast cancer bone metastases
      $44,544
      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.