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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$7.4M
$7,354,142
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
19
15 lead a grant here, 4 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 Engineering row of the Virginia Tech 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. Eli Vlaisavljevich

    Leads 2 awards · $1,194,533

    • 5R01CA289288-03Department: NIH department code
      Image-guided Histotripsy System for Complete, Uniform, and Non-Invasive Ablation of Heterogeneous Osteosarcoma Tumors
      $630,563
      award amount
    • 1R01EB038261-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasound-guided handheld histotripsy system for precise and tissue selective thyroid ablation
      $563,970
      award amount

  2. Wujin Sun

    Leads 1 award · $764,750

    • 1DP2AR089712-01Department: NIH department code
      The Transdermal Bioreactor: A Platform for Point-of-Care In Situ Cellular Engineering
      $764,750
      award amount

  3. Aiguo Han

    Leads 1 award · $750,993

    • 1R01EB039768-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing pulse-echo speed-of-sound imaging: Toward accurate, robust, and fast methods for practical use
      $750,993
      award amount

  4. Michael L Madigan

    Leads 1 award · $710,970

    • 1R01AG097954-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of a novel perturbation balance training program on laboratory and real-world trip-induced losses of balance and falls among balance-impaired older adults

      Principal investigators: Michael L Madigan (contact PI), Neil Alexander

      $710,970
      award amount

  5. Chang Lu

    Leads 1 award · $691,701

    • 5R01DA056187-04Department: NIH department code
      Low-input profiling of brain-region and cell-type specific epigenomic dynamics to understand gene-environment interactions in opioid addiction

      Principal investigators: Chang Lu (contact PI), Julie A Blendy, Wei Wang

      $691,701
      award amount

  6. Yue Wang

    Leads 1 award · $682,861

    • 5R01MH110504-10Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Astrocyte Signaling in Neural Circuitry with Novel Computational Modeling and Analytical Tools
      $682,861
      award amount

  7. Huaiyang Zhong

    Leads 1 award · $460,260

    • 1R21AG091260-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Chronic Pain Care in Rural Seniors: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Improve Understanding, Assessment, and Comorbidity Risk Prediction
      $460,260
      award amount

  8. Netta Gurari

    Leads 1 award · $454,240

    • 1R21HD117190-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Stroke on Peripheral Nerve Signaling
      $454,240
      award amount

  9. Robin M Queen

    Leads 1 award · $405,419

    • 5R01AR078811-05Department: NIH department code
      Clinically Assessed Risk Factors for a Second ACL Injury Using an Innovative Wearable Sensor
      $405,419
      award amount

  10. Robert Clay Wright

    Leads 1 award · $366,155

    • 5R35GM150856-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and Engineering Chemically Activated Ubiquitin Ligases
      $366,155
      award amount

  11. Zhenhua Tian

    Leads 1 award · $349,073

    • 5R01GM144417-06Department: NIH department code
      Development of a multifunctional, acoustofluidic 3D bioprinter with single-cell resolution
      $349,073
      award amount

  12. Anna Duraj-Thatte

    Leads 1 award · $189,621

    • 1R21EB039849-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetically Programmable Mucoadhesive Hydrogels for Targeted Delivery of Biologics in the Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract
      $189,621
      award amount

  13. Maury A Nussbaum

    Leads 1 award · $150,000

    • 2T03OH008613-22Department: NIH department code
      Occupational Ergonomics, Biomechanics, and Safety Training
      $150,000
      award amount

  14. Anne Staples

    Leads 1 award · $140,393

    • 5R21EB035655-03Department: NIH department code
      A pulse-driven micropump for continuous drug delivery
      $140,393
      award amount

  15. Christopher B Arena

    Leads 1 award · $43,173

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.