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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Veterinary Sciences at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Funding
$7.6M
$7,617,256
Awards
20
FY2025 NIH awards in Veterinary Sciences
Principal investigators
18
14 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 Veterinary Sciences row of the Virginia Tech page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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 · $1,487,745

    • 5R01AI176922-04Department: NIH department code
      Continuum of Immune Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans
      $765,843
      award amount
    • 5R01AI134636-07Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Cryptococcus titan cells on pathogenesis
      $721,902
      award amount

  2. Michelle Lee Theus

    Leads 2 awards · $931,586

    • 5R01NS119540-05Department: NIH department code
      Divergent age-dependent peripheral innate immune response following TBI
      $571,586
      award amount
    • 5R01NS121103-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel mechanisms suppressing the pro-resolving phenotype of peripheral innate immunity following traumatic brain injury
      $360,000
      award amount

  3. Irving C Allen

    Leads 2 awards · $892,701

    • 5R01CA274439-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of High Frequency Irreversible Electroporation (H-FIRE) for tumor ablation and immune system activation in pancreatic cancer applications
      $516,873
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269811-04Department: NIH department code
      Deploying Histotripsy Based Tumor Ablation Strategies to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
      $375,828
      award amount

  4. Clayton C Caswell

    Leads 3 awards · $686,345

    • 5R21AI183022-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing a novel Brucella small RNA critical for cell envelope integrity
      $235,202
      award amount
    • 5R21AI182899-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the regulatory mechanism of a Brucella-specific small RNA required for virulence
      $228,146
      award amount
    • 5R21AI180524-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the atypical quorum sensing system of Brucella spp.
      $222,997
      award amount

  5. Ira J Blader

    Leads 1 award · $620,228

    • 5R01AI169849-05Department: 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

      $620,228
      award amount

  6. Timothy Joseph Jarome

    Leads 2 awards · $465,401

    • 5R01MH122414-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of sex- and cell-type specific protein degradation increases in the amygdala in fear memory formation
      $385,768
      award amount
    • 3R01MH122414-05S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of sex- and cell-type specific protein degradation increases in the amygdala in fear memory formation
      $79,633
      award amount

  7. Kylene Kehn-Hall

    Leads 1 award · $452,769

  8. Joanne Tuohy

    Leads 1 award · $419,080

    • 1R21CA296742-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging combination histotripsy tumor ablation and N-dihydrogalactochitosan immunostimulation to advance osteosarcoma therapy
      $419,080
      award amount

  9. James D Weger

    Leads 1 award · $414,482

    • 1R21AI188287-01Department: NIH department code
      Creating an improved oncolytic virus through directed evolution and virus-driven expression of a cancer-targeting peptid

      Principal investigators: James D Weger (contact PI), Samy Lamouille

      $414,482
      award amount

  10. Paul David Morton

    Leads 1 award · $395,265

    • 5R01ES035013-02Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of Pb-induced perturbations in the central and enteric nervous system
      $395,265
      award amount

  11. Xiang-Jin Meng

    Leads 1 award · $388,000

    • 5R37AI179614-02Department: NIH department code
      A gerbil model to delineate the mechanism of hepatitis E virus extrahepatic pathogenesis
      $388,000
      award amount

  12. Nisha Duggal

    Leads 1 award · $230,404

    • 5R21AI183178-02Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of acute and persistent Zika virus shedding in semen
      $230,404
      award amount

  13. Xiaogang Wang

    Leads 1 award · $201,250

    • 7R21AI180326-02Department: NIH department code
      In vivo production of Staphylococcus aureus extracellular membrane vesicles
      $201,250
      award amount

  14. Kevin K Lahmers

    Leads 1 award · $32,000

    • 5U18FD006159-09Department: 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.