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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$3.7M
$3,698,405
Awards
9
FY2026 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
8
7 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
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 Virginia Tech page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Emily Elizabeth Mevers

    Leads 2 awards · $841,486

    • 1R21AT013863-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Development of Millipede Alkaloids as a New Generation of Painkillers
      $451,417
      award amount
    • 5R35GM146740-05Department: NIH department code
      Unlocking the biomedical potential of microbial symbionts from complex ecosystems
      $390,069
      award amount

  2. Wei Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $721,220

    • 5R35GM146765-06Department: NIH department code
      New Strategies for Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Electrophiles
      $392,161
      award amount
    • 7R01EB036046-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Approaches to 11C- and 18F-Trifluoromethylation for PET Tracer Development
      $329,059
      award amount

  3. Webster L Santos

    Leads 1 award · $572,063

    • 5R01DK137181-03Department: NIH department code
      Blockade of S1P pathway for renal fibrosis therapy

      Principal investigators: Webster L Santos (contact PI), Kevin R. Lynch

      $572,063
      award amount

  4. Shabnam Hematian

    Leads 1 award · $399,903

    • 5R35GM150762-04Department: NIH department code
      Multinuclear Dioxygen-Utilizing Copper Enzymes: Diverse Roles for Aromatic Redox Active Amino Acids
      $399,903
      award amount

  5. Emily Gentry

    Leads 1 award · $389,315

    • 5R35GM154990-03Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the Human Metabolome Using Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry
      $389,315
      award amount

  6. Ming Chen

    Leads 1 award · $389,315

    • 5R35GM147523-06Department: NIH department code
      Asymmetric Synthesis via Organoboron Compounds
      $389,315
      award amount

  7. Valerie Vaissier Welborn

    Leads 1 award · $385,103

    • 5R35GM150409-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the dynamical and structural molecular factors at the origin of non-enzymatic protein-protein and protein-DNA cross-links
      $385,103
      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.