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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Funding
$3.8M
$3,815,245
Awards
8
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
9
6 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#45
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Wayne State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Zhibing Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,196,345

    • 5R01HD114311-03Department: NIH department code
      The mechanisms of MEIG1 complex in mammalian spermiogenesis and fertilization

      Principal investigators: Zhibing Zhang (contact PI), Christopher V Kelly, Saher Sue Hammoud

      $663,698
      award amount
    • 5R01HD105944-05Department: NIH department code
      Intraflagellar transport (IFT) and sperm formation
      $532,647
      award amount

  2. Ulrike Klueh

    Leads 2 awards · $1,138,333

    • 5R01DK133789-04Department: NIH department code
      A novel inline platform provides an advanced drug delivery device foroptimized diabetes therapy

      Principal investigators: Ulrike Klueh (contact PI), Roshanak Sharafieh

      $635,673
      award amount
    • 5R01DK129681-05Department: NIH department code
      Infusion device optimization by addressing root causes of the inflammatory response
      $502,660
      award amount

  3. Pablo A. Ortiz

    Leads 1 award · $559,687

    • 5R01DK131114-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of NKCC2 and renal NaCl transport by protein-protein interactions
      $559,687
      award amount

  4. Robert John Wessells

    Leads 1 award · $420,380

    • 5R01AG059683-08Department: NIH department code
      Octpamine controls adaptation to endurance exercise in Drosophila
      $420,380
      award amount

  5. Paulo Sebastian Caceres

    Leads 1 award · $385,000

    • 5R35GM150570-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of polarized protein sorting in AP-1B-deficient epithelia
      $385,000
      award amount

  6. Gustavo R Ares-Sarmiento

    Leads 1 award · $115,500

    • 5R03DK140261-02Department: NIH department code
      High salt-dependent regulation of the Na+/K+/2Cl- co-transporter (NKCC2) ubiquitination by E3-ubiquitin ligases in Thick Ascending Limb
      $115,500
      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 V Kelly

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD114311-03, led by Zhibing Zhang

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

  • Saher Sue Hammoud

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD114311-03, led by Zhibing Zhang

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Roshanak Sharafieh

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK133789-04, led by Ulrike Klueh

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