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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Miscellaneous at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$18M
$17,970,739
Awards
31
FY2026 NIH awards in Miscellaneous
Principal investigators
37
26 lead a grant here, 11 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 Miscellaneous row of the Virginia Tech page.

Leads a grant in this department

26 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. Brittany Rollins Howell

    Leads 2 awards · $2,141,916

  2. Junko Shibayama Warren

    Leads 1 award · $1,601,670

  3. P Read Montague

    Leads 2 awards · $1,343,865

    • 1R01AG095349-01Department: NIH department code
      Neurochemical and Computational Substrates of Age-Related Decision Making

      Principal investigators: P Read Montague (contact PI), William Matthew Howe

      $689,352
      award amount
    • 5R01MH132635-04Department: NIH department code
      Direct Dopamine Recording From Humans Engaging Working Memory
      $654,513
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK141764-02, led by Alexandra Gold Difeliceantonio; 5R01EB036654-02, led by Brittany Rollins Howell.

  4. Steven Poelzing

    Leads 2 awards · $1,301,552

    • 5R01HL169610-03Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting of Voltage Gated Sodium Channel Autoregulation

      Principal investigators: Steven Poelzing (contact PI), Seth Howard Weinberg

      $684,371
      award amount
    • 5R01HL159097-04Department: NIH department code
      Arrhythmia Mechanisms Modulated by Intercalated Disc Extracellular Nanodomains
      $617,181
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32ES033959-04, led by Julia M Gohlke.

  5. Alexandra Gold Difeliceantonio

    Leads 2 awards · $1,149,043

    • 5R01DK141764-02Department: NIH department code
      Sub-second catecholamine dynamics underlying food reward in humans

      Principal investigators: Alexandra Gold Difeliceantonio (contact PI), P Read Montague, William Matthew Howe

      $683,750
      award amount
    • 5R01DK132389-04Department: NIH department code
      Ultra-processed food reward: neural and metabolic factors
      $465,293
      award amount

  6. Sora Shin

    Leads 2 awards · $994,157

    • 5R01MH137465-02Department: NIH department code
      Thalamo-hippocampal interplay in early life trauma-induced aggression
      $575,171
      award amount
    • 5R01DK132566-05Department: NIH department code
      A leptin-responsive lateral hypothalamus to ventrolateral periaqueductal gray circuit for palatable food overconsumption
      $418,986
      award amount

  7. Michael M Halassa

    Leads 1 award · $815,245

    • 7R01MH134466-09Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and Functional dissection of frontal thalamocortical circuitry

      Principal investigators: Michael M Halassa (contact PI), Guoping Feng

      $815,245
      award amount

  8. Hehuang Xie

    Leads 1 award · $762,861

    • 1R56AG098599-01Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptomic Dynamics Associated with TDP-43 Propagation in limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change

      Principal investigators: Hehuang Xie (contact PI), Qinwen Mao

      $762,861
      award amount

  9. Sarah Lessard

    Leads 1 award · $709,867

    • 2R01DK124258-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms for Impaired Adaptation to Aerobic Exercise with Metabolic Disease
      $709,867
      award amount

  10. Stephen M Laconte

    Leads 1 award · $681,235

    • 5R01DA054216-05Department: NIH department code
      An Experimental Medicine Approach for the Mechanistic Understanding of Cocaine Use Disorder: Reinforcer Pathology
      $681,235
      award amount

  11. Jungmeen Kim-Spoon

    Leads 1 award · $673,373

    • 5R01AA029135-05Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal Study of Recovery: Psychosocial Functioning, Relapse, and Neuro-Behavioral Markers

      Principal investigators: Jungmeen Kim-Spoon (contact PI), Allison N Tegge

      $673,373
      award amount

  12. Anthony S Lamantia

    Leads 1 award · $667,837

    • 5R01HD042182-22Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of 22q11 Genes in Embryonic and Adult Forebrain
      $667,837
      award amount

  13. Jeffrey Scott Stein

    Leads 1 award · $642,460

    • 5R01CA266966-05Department: NIH department code
      Experimental Tobacco Marketplace: Forecasting the Impact of Novel Tax Proposals

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey Scott Stein (contact PI), Christine Elizabeth Sheffer

      $642,460
      award amount

  14. Zhen Yan

    Leads 1 award · $545,300

    • 5R01AG077783-04Department: NIH department code
      Exercise-Induced Mitophagy In Hippocampal Neurons Against AD
      $545,300
      award amount

  15. James William Smyth

    Leads 1 award · $538,404

    • 5R01HL159512-05Department: NIH department code
      Viral subversion of intercellular coupling during myocarditis
      $538,404
      award amount

  16. Jennifer M Munson

    Leads 1 award · $534,840

    • 5U01CA305075-02Department: NIH department code
      Flow-informed therapy for glioblastoma
      $534,840
      award amount

  17. Ryan Herndon Purcell

    Leads 1 award · $456,864

    • 1R21MH141697-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Iron deficiency and neuropsychiatric disease risk in 3q29 deletion syndrome
      $456,864
      award amount

  18. Yassine Sassi

    Leads 1 award · $442,345

    • 5R01HL160963-05Department: NIH department code
      Paracrine Action of BMP3 in Pulmonary Hypertension
      $442,345
      award amount

  19. Matthew C Weston

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R01NS130042-05Department: NIH department code
      Cell Type-Specific Roles of the Na-Activated K Current in KCNT1-Related Epilepsy
      $400,000
      award amount

  20. Yuchin Albert Pan

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R01MH131820-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and significance of programmed cell death in hypothalamic CRH neurons
      $400,000
      award amount

  21. Kathleen Mulvaney

    Leads 1 award · $396,017

    • 5R35GM154987-03Department: NIH department code
      Resolving cellular functions of arginine methylation
      $396,017
      award amount

  22. Shannon Farris

    Leads 1 award · $322,000

    • 1R03AG093239-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondria and synapse crosstalk in AD circuit vulnerability

      Principal investigators: Shannon Farris (contact PI), Sharon Ann Swanger

      $322,000
      award amount

  23. Karthi Sreedevi

    Leads 1 award · $163,175

    • 1K99HL183750-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of mitochondrial function by O-GlcNAcylation in progressive heart failure
      $163,175
      award amount

  24. Mary Elizabeth Baugh

    Leads 1 award · $132,885

    • 1K01DK142002-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Influence of Obesity and Insulin Sensitivity on Reward Processing and Decision Making
      $132,885
      award amount

  25. Julia M Gohlke

    Leads 1 award · $77,048

    • 5T32ES033959-04Department: NIH department code
      Rural Environmental Health Training Program

      Principal investigators: Julia M Gohlke (contact PI), Steven Poelzing

      $77,048
      award amount

  26. Chelsea Marie Phillips

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32AI191726-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Subversion of intercellular coupling during respiratory virus infection
      $76,780
      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.