New Grants FY 2026
September
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
Title: Artificial intelligence enabled Stroma-Weighted Automated Grading system to improve risk stratification in Black Men
Principal Investigator: Gustavo Ayala
Department/Division: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Period of Support: 3/12/2025–2/28/2030
Total Direct Costs: $347,670.00
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Title: Microbial-based platform for assessing organ damage in alcohol use disorders
Principal Investigator: Faraz Bishehsari
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–5/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $2,297,010.00
University of Maryland at Baltimore
Title: MIXR: Medical Innovation for Extended Reality
Principal Investigator: Vishwa Sanjay Parekh
Department/Division: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Period of Support: 4/1/2025–3/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $17,271.00
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Title: Investigating The Role of Hippo Signaling in Sinoatrial Node Development
Principal Investigator: Julianna Nicole Quinn
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/30/2025–8/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $37,613.00
University of Arizona
Title: Psychiatric Service Dogs and Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Military-Connected PTSD: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Principal Investigator: Ronald Ettore Acierno
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/30/2025–9/29/2029
Total Direct Costs: $188,604.00
Administration for Children and Families
Title: Head Start Collaboration Grant
Principal Investigator: April Crawford
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/30/2025–9/29/2030
Total Direct Costs: $210,360.00
Ambient Digital LLC
Title: Ambient – COVID US Project
Principal Investigator: Michael A Jacobs
Department/Division: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Period of Support: 8/15/2025–12/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $20,000.00
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Title: Echogenic Targeted Liposomes: Transfection/Drug Delivery
Principal Investigator: David D McPherson
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/8/2025–5/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $2,602,968.00
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Title: GABP regulation of beta cell survival and turnover
Principal Investigator: Madigan McKenna Snyder
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 4/5/2026–4/4/2029
Total Direct Costs: $74,632.00
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Leveraging PD-L1 Biology to Develop New Radiotherapeutics and Imaging Agents
Principal Investigator: Federica Pisaneschi
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 5/1/2025–4/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $20,125.00
National Institutes of Health
Title: Biomechanical Forces and the Enteric Nervous System: Advancing the Development and Function of Tissue-Engineered Intestine
Principal Investigator: Allison L Speer
Department/Division: Pediatric Surgery
Period of Support: 9/8/2025–9/7/2029
Total Direct Costs: $1,859,075.00
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Title: POI-KB: Design and Development of a Knowledgebase for Accelerating Perioperative Organ Injury Research and Translation
Principal Investigator: Holger K Eltzschig
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–7/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $1,393,784.00
Mayo Clinic
Title: Optimization of antibody drug conjugate design to maximize the therapeutic window for glioblastoma therapy
Principal Investigator: Kyoji Tsuchikama
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $680,000.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Mechanobiology of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Traumatic Brain Injury-induced Coagulopathy
Principal Investigator: Ayhan Atmanli
Department/Division: Pediatric Surgery
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $102,130.00
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing with Functional Genomics to Enhance Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip/Palate (NSCLP) Gene Discovery
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline T Hecht
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 5/1/2025–2/28/2030
Total Direct Costs: $521,672.00
Baszucki Family Foundation
Title: Deciphering the complex link between diet, metabolic dysfunction, and suicide risk
Principal Investigator: Gabriel Rodrigo Fries
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $130,433.00
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
Title: Cortical circuit mechanisms for sensorimotor coordination at projection-neuron-type resolution
Principal Investigator: Hemanth Mohan
Department/Division: Neurobiology and Anatomy
Period of Support: 1/15/2026–1/14/2028
Total Direct Costs: $35,000.00
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Title: Incretin Microdosing for Cardiometabolic Health in People With HIV: The REINFORCE Trial
Principal Investigator: Jordan Elizabeth Lake
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–8/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $660,186.00
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)
Title: The Houston ECHO Pregnancy Cohort Study Site
Principal Investigator: Thomas Francis Northrup
Department/Division: Family Practice
Period of Support: 6/1/2025–5/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $3,399,575.00
The Jack Bear Foundation
Title: Drosophila SCAR-15 Model to Elucidate Pathogenic Mechanisms of RUBCN Mutations
Principal Investigator: Kartik Venkatachalam
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $45,000.00
N-Lorem Foundation
Title: An open-label single center, single participant study of an experimental antisense oligonucleotide treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2D due to GARS1 genetic mutation
Principal Investigator: Sam Nicholas Russo
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $27,422.00
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Title: Contingency management plus deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of cocaine use disorder
Principal Investigator: Joy M Schmitz
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–6/30/2029
Total Direct Costs: $1,999,756.00
National Institute on Aging
Title: ReCARDO: Using Real-World Data to Derive Common Data Elements for Alzheimer’s Disease and AD-Related Dementias Research Through Ontological Innovation
Principal Investigator: Guo-Qiang Zhang
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–8/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $21,653,477.00
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Title: Artificial Intelligence for Thoracic Aortic Disease Screening and Gene Discovery
Principal Investigator: David Raul Murdock
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–8/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $760,700.00
University of Michigan
Title: Assessing and validating the psychometric properties of the CRISTAL PRO through an online registry
Principal Investigator: Maureen D Mayes
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–12/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $6,154.00
Sophie’s Hope Foundation
Title: A single-center cohort study of Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ib
Principal Investigator: David Felipe Rodriguez- Buritica
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $777,457.00
National Institute on Aging
Title: Senescence induced by iron overload in the brain vasculature
Principal Investigator: Jose Felix Moruno Manchon
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
Lindonlight Collective LLC
Title: Targeting TREM2 for brain tumors
Principal Investigator: Zhiqiang An
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $513,930.00
University of Virginia
Title: Epigenetic Insights into Kabuki Syndrome and CAKUT: Functional Characterization of KMT2D in Xenopus Kidney Development
Principal Investigator: Lydia Song Youmans
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $68,210.00
Y-Biologics Inc.
Title: Development of quality-customized production process for multi-specific antibody to enter the global market
Principal Investigator: Tae Jin Lee
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 4/1/2025–12/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $349,645.00
TIRR Foundation
Title: Neurorecovery Impact of Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Principal Investigator: Gerard E Francisco
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 9/4/2025–9/3/2027
Total Direct Costs: $200,000.00
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: NIDA Clinical Trials Network: Big South/West Node – Revision – 18 KMD Co-Care
Principal Investigator: Angela L Stotts
Department/Division: Family Practice
Period of Support: 3/1/2025–2/28/2027
Total Direct Costs: $400,184.00
University of California Los Angeles
Title: Cholesterol and inflammation Lowering via Bempedoic Acid, an ACL-inhibiting Regimen in HIV Trial (CLEAR HIV Trial)
Principal Investigator: Jordan Elizabeth Lake
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $324,414.00
The John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health
Title: AortaGPT: Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence to Guide Thoracic Aortic Disease Management
Principal Investigator: Siddharth Kumar Prakash
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $90,909.00
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Title: Explore the prion pathogenic mechanisms by investigating the structure-function relationships of PrP fibrils
Principal Investigator: Fei Wang
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/22/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
Medical College of Virginia Foundation
Title: Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program-CDA
Principal Investigator: Chigozirim Izeogu
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 10/16/2025–1/15/2028
Total Direct Costs: $216,000.00
Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
Title: Interventional and Structural Heart Cardiology Fellowship Grant 2025-2026
Principal Investigator: Salman A Arain
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 7/1/2025–6/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $100,000.00
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Title: Cancer Therapeutics Training Program – CTTP
Principal Investigator: Alemayehu Gorfe Abebe
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Period of Support: 1/1/2025–12/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $80,628.00