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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Veterinary Sciences at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$5.3M
$5,329,338
Awards
19
FY2024 NIH awards in Veterinary Sciences
Principal investigators
14
12 lead a grant here, 2 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

12 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. Kirsten Nielsen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,165,328

    • 2R01AI134636-06Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Cryptococcus titan cells on pathogenesis
      $685,902
      award amount
    • 7R01AI176922-03Department: NIH department code
      Continuum of Immune Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans
      $479,426
      award amount
  2. Michelle Lee Theus

    Leads 2 awards · $768,127

    • 5R01NS121103-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel mechanisms suppressing the pro-resolving phenotype of peripheral innate immunity following traumatic brain injury
      $388,000
      award amount
    • 3R01NS121103-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Immune-specific EphA4 influence meningeal amyloid accumulation following TBI
      $380,127
      award amount
  3. Timothy Joseph Jarome

    Leads 4 awards · $729,469

    • 5R01MH122414-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of sex- and cell-type specific protein degradation increases in the amygdala in fear memory formation
      $386,142
      award amount
    • 5R21MH131587-02Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral, molecular and sex-specific mechanisms of indirectly learned fear memory
      $235,161
      award amount
    • 3R01MH122414-04S2Department: NIH department code
      The sex-specific role of degradation-specific protein polyubiquitination in fear memory formation
      $79,633
      award amount
    • 3R01MH122414-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of sex- and cell-type specific protein degradation increases in the amygdala in fear memory formation
      $28,533
      award amount
  4. Edward J Smith

    Leads 2 awards · $652,036

    • 5R25GM066534-20Department: NIH department code
      Virginia Tech Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (VT PREP)
      $374,968
      award amount
    • 5R25EB033070-02Department: NIH department code
      VT-ESTEEMED

      Principal investigators: Edward J Smith (contact PI), Sara Arena

      $277,068
      award amount
  5. Ira J Blader

    Leads 1 award · $482,923

    • 7R01AI169849-04Department: 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

      $482,923
      award amount
  6. Xiang-Jin Meng

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 1R37AI179614-01Department: NIH department code
      A gerbil model to delineate the mechanism of hepatitis E virus extrahepatic pathogenesis
      $400,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R03AI177361-02, led by Wen Li.

  7. Paul David Morton

    Leads 1 award · $395,403

    • 1R01ES035013-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of Pb-induced perturbations in the central and enteric nervous system
      $395,403
      award amount
  8. Clayton C Caswell

    Leads 2 awards · $390,684

    • 1R21AI182899-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the regulatory mechanism of a Brucella-specific small RNA required for virulence
      $195,342
      award amount
    • 1R21AI183022-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing a novel Brucella small RNA critical for cell envelope integrity
      $195,342
      award amount
  9. Nisha Duggal

    Leads 1 award · $190,684

    • 1R21AI183178-01Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of acute and persistent Zika virus shedding in semen
      $190,684
      award amount
  10. Wen Li

    Leads 1 award · $80,000

    • 5R03AI177361-02Department: NIH department code
      Placental barrier culture to delineate the mechanism of hepatitis E virus infection at the maternal and fetal interface

      Principal investigators: Wen Li (contact PI), Xiang-Jin Meng

      $80,000
      award amount
  11. Kaylee Petraccione

    Leads 1 award · $42,684

    • 1F31AI181059-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rift Valley fever virus NSs protein interacts with LC3 family members to inhibit antiviral autophagy
      $42,684
      award amount
  12. Kevin K Lahmers

    Leads 1 award · $32,000

    • 5U18FD006159-08Department: 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.

  • Christopher M. West

    Co-investigator on 7R01AI169849-04, led by Ira J Blader

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

  • Sara Arena

    Co-investigator on 5R25EB033070-02, led by Edward J Smith

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