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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Veterinary Sciences at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$9.2M
$9,180,033
Awards
24
FY2026 NIH awards in Veterinary Sciences
Principal investigators
18
13 lead a grant here, 5 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 Veterinary Sciences row of the Virginia Tech page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Mohamed Seleem

    Leads 4 awards · $2,178,076

    • 1R01AI195944-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting ESKAPE pathogens with AI-designed antimicrobial peptide
      $808,607
      award amount
    • 1R01AI201212-01Department: NIH department code
      Repositioning the old antibiotic nitroxoline with a dual mechanism of action for treating drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia
      $733,233
      award amount
    • 1R21AI190710-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Development of antisense therapeutics for Clostridioides difficile infection
      $437,541
      award amount
    • 1R21AI195348-01Department: NIH department code
      Repurposing Neurokinin 1 Inhibitors for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Invasive Fungal Infections
      $198,695
      award amount

  2. Kirsten Nielsen

    Leads 5 awards · $2,131,023

    • 5R01AI176922-05Department: NIH department code
      Continuum of Immune Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans
      $765,843
      award amount
    • 5R01AI134636-08Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Cryptococcus titan cells on pathogenesis
      $721,902
      award amount
    • 2R01NS118538-06Department: NIH department code
      Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis

      Principal investigators: Kirsten Nielsen (contact PI), David Bisagaya Meya, Joel Bazira

      $368,800
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118538-06S1Department: NIH department code
      Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis

      Principal investigators: Kirsten Nielsen (contact PI), David Bisagaya Meya, Joel Bazira

      $152,000
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118538-06S2Department: NIH department code
      Genomic Research Capacity Building for Cryptococcal Meningitis

      Principal investigators: Kirsten Nielsen (contact PI), David Bisagaya Meya, Joel Bazira

      $122,478
      award amount

  3. Ira J Blader

    Leads 2 awards · $1,002,557

    • 5R01AI169849-06Department: NIH department code
      Protist Oxygen Sensing in Human Disease Protist Oxygen Sensing in Human Disease

      Principal investigators: Ira J Blader (contact PI), Christopher M. West

      $610,219
      award amount
    • 1R01NS148151-01Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic Signaling Mechanisms in Toxoplasma Infected Brains
      $392,338
      award amount

  4. Irving C Allen

    Leads 2 awards · $874,444

    • 5R01CA274439-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of High Frequency Irreversible Electroporation (H-FIRE) for tumor ablation and immune system activation in pancreatic cancer applications
      $513,812
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269811-05Department: NIH department code
      Deploying Histotripsy Based Tumor Ablation Strategies to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
      $360,632
      award amount

  5. James D Weger

    Leads 2 awards · $593,663

    • 1R35GM165568-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Virus–Host Conflict at the Level of Cell Death
      $402,500
      award amount
    • 1R21AI190549-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transmission Dynamics and Pathogenesis of Contemporary Mayaro Virus Strains.
      $191,163
      award amount

  6. Xiang-Jin Meng

    Leads 2 awards · $467,381

    • 5R37AI179614-03Department: NIH department code
      A gerbil model to delineate the mechanism of hepatitis E virus extrahepatic pathogenesis
      $400,000
      award amount
    • 2T32OD028239-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Animal Model Research for Veterinarians (AMRV)
      $67,381
      award amount

  7. Nisha Duggal

    Leads 1 award · $432,155

    • 1R21AI199905-01Department: NIH department code
      Impacts of coinfection on WNV transmission in songbirds

      Principal investigators: Nisha Duggal (contact PI), Chloe Lahondere, Dana M Hawley

      $432,155
      award amount

  8. Clayton C Caswell

    Leads 1 award · $421,560

    • 1R21AI185249-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing an alternative genetic pathway critical for the virulence of Brucella
      $421,560
      award amount

  9. Timothy Joseph Jarome

    Leads 1 award · $409,464

    • 1R21AG094690-01A1Department: NIH department code
      K63 polyubiquitination as a mechanism linking obesity and age-related memory decline
      $409,464
      award amount

  10. Paul David Morton

    Leads 1 award · $395,123

    • 5R01ES035013-03Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of Pb-induced perturbations in the central and enteric nervous system
      $395,123
      award amount

  11. Erin S. Gloag

    Leads 1 award · $199,059

    • 1R21AI202210-01Department: NIH department code
      Competitive microbial interactions driving pathogen adaptation during biofilm-associated infections
      $199,059
      award amount

  12. Joanne Tuohy

    Leads 1 award · $43,528

    • 3R21CA296742-01A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging combination histotripsy tumor ablation and N-dihydrogalactochitosan immunostimulation to advance osteosarcoma therapy
      $43,528
      award amount

  13. Kevin K Lahmers

    Leads 1 award · $32,000

    • 5U18FD006159-10Department: NIH department code
      CVM Vet-LIRN Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostic Program (U18)
      $32,000
      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.

  • David Bisagaya Meya

    Co-investigator on 2R01NS118538-06, led by Kirsten Nielsen; 3R01NS118538-06S1, led by Kirsten Nielsen; 3R01NS118538-06S2, led by Kirsten Nielsen

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

  • Joel Bazira

    Co-investigator on 2R01NS118538-06, led by Kirsten Nielsen; 3R01NS118538-06S1, led by Kirsten Nielsen; 3R01NS118538-06S2, led by Kirsten Nielsen

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

  • Christopher M. West

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI169849-06, led by Ira J Blader

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

  • Chloe Lahondere

    Co-investigator on 1R21AI199905-01, led by Nisha Duggal

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

  • Dana M Hawley

    Co-investigator on 1R21AI199905-01, led by Nisha Duggal

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads