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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Funding
$4.3M
$4,297,558
Awards
9
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
8
7 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#88
of 133 · Ranking
  • 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 Internal Medicine row of the Wayne State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Azeddine Atfi

    Leads 1 award · $1,263,803

    • 4R01CA281207-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting cancer cachexia drivers using antibody-based approaches
      $1,263,803
      award amount

  2. Erik K Flemington

    Leads 2 awards · $750,605

    • 7R01CA272142-05Department: NIH department code
      EBV reactivation causes widespread host de novo promoter transcription and transcriptional interference
      $431,770
      award amount
    • 7R01CA262090-06Department: NIH department code
      Programmed splicing derangement as new EBV host cell shut-off mechanism
      $318,835
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 7R01CA301628-03, led by Yan Dong.

  3. Heather Marie Gibson

    Leads 1 award · $620,762

    • 1R01CA318354-01Department: NIH department code
      Host-intrinsic mechanisms regulating endogenous immune activation after targeted immunotherapy
      $620,762
      award amount

  4. Morhaf Al Achkar

    Leads 2 awards · $557,699

    • 1R21CA318809-01Department: NIH department code
      ONC-SLEEP Collaborative: COMISA Collaborative Care Integration in Oncology
      $398,544
      award amount
    • 5R25CA295446-02Department: NIH department code
      NextGen Oncology Scholars: Nurturing Tomorrow's Pioneers

      Principal investigators: Morhaf Al Achkar (contact PI), Larry H Matherly

      $159,155
      award amount

  5. Yan Dong

    Leads 1 award · $535,500

    • 7R01CA301628-03Department: NIH department code
      RNA-binding as a new paradigm for androgen receptor-mediated prostate cancer therapeutic resistance

      Principal investigators: Yan Dong (contact PI), Erik K Flemington

      $535,500
      award amount

  6. Meser M. Ali

    Leads 1 award · $517,352

    • 5R01CA269607-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeted drug delivery system to overcome blood-brain barrier and therapeutic resistance to current standard of care in Glioblastoma
      $517,352
      award amount

  7. Mark Gregory

    Leads 1 award · $51,837

    • 1F30CA310029-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy by dopamine D2 receptor signaling
      $51,837
      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.