New Grants FY 2026
June
Principal Investigator: Jamal Hasoon
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Anesthesiology Pain Medicine Fellowship Program – Abbott
Period of Support: 8/1/2026–7/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $9,091
Awarding Institution: Abbott Laboratories
Principal Investigator: Junda Gao
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Therapeutic Targeting of TREM2⁺ Macrophages to Accelerate Liver Repair After Traumatic Injury
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–5/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $82,116
Awarding Institution: UTMB
Principal Investigator: Ningyan Zhang
Department/Division: Texas Therapeutic Institute
Title: Deciphering the genetic, functional, and therapeutic roles of TREM2 in diabetic kidney disease
Period of Support: 3/16/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $261,258
Awarding Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Principal Investigator: Valeria Vasquez
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title: Functions of caldendrin in sensory neurons
Period of Support: 4/7/2026–3/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $374,151
Awarding Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Principal Investigator: Xiaoming Du
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Non-Invasive Deep Brain Neuromodulation for Cigarette Smoking Cessation in People with Multiple Failed Quit Attempts
Period of Support: 6/1/2026–8/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $239,578
Awarding Institution: CPRIT
Principal Investigator: April Crawford
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Title: Early Childhood Professional Development Scholarships
Period of Support: 6/15/2026–12/14/2027
Total Direct Costs: $3,378,667
Awarding Institution: Texas Workforce Commission
Principal Investigator: Dianna Milewicz
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: RNF213: Molecular Functions and Moyamoya Disease
Period of Support: 6/9/2026–5/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $275,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: J. William Lindsey
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Effects of ublituximab on Epstein-Barr virus: Correlation with MS disease activity
Period of Support: 6/10/2026–6/9/2027
Total Direct Costs: $71,220
Awarding Institution: TG Therapeutics, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Anne Dougherty
Department/Division: ACTAT
Title: Medtronic Fellowship Grant 2026-27
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $20,000
Awarding Institution: Medtronic Foundation
Principal Investigator: Asia Bright
Department/Division: Professionalism and Engagement
Title: Teaching Integrative Medicine through Service Learning: A Pathway to Professional Identity Formation in Medical Students
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $15,000
Awarding Institution: Weil Foundation
Principal Investigator: Luis Ostrosky
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Infectious Disease Provider Consultation Line
Period of Support: 5/1/2026–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $215,000
Awarding Institution: UTMB
Principal Investigator: Michael L. Chang
Department/Division: Peditrics
Title: Dissemination of a Facilitation Strategy to Deimplement Unnecessary Post-Operative Antibiotics at Children’s Hospitals
Period of Support: 7/1/2025–6/30/2029
Total Direct Costs: $2,564
Awarding Institution: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Principal Investigator: Mark Burish
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Title: Development of a multi-modal mouse model of cluster headache
Period of Support: 6/18/2026–6/17/2027
Total Direct Costs: $251,426
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Brian Skaug
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Pulmonary arterial hypertension susceptibility in systemic sclerosis patients with the DNASE1L3 R206C variant
Period of Support: 6/17/2025–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $100,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Principal Investigator: Tingting Mills
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title: Hypoxia-Driven NUDT21-Mediated APA Promotes Lung and Skin Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis
Period of Support: 12/18/2026–12/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $404,667
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Principal Investigator: Thomas Northrup
Department/Division: Family and Community Medicine
Title: Increasing Mothers’ Own Milk Feeding to Black Infants in the Neonatal ICU: Training a Lactation Team in a Culturally Informed Behavioral Intervention
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–4/30/2031
Total Direct Costs: $150,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Principal Investigator: Vicky Chuong
Department/Division: Neurobiology and Anatomy
Title: Investigating the role of prefrontal cortex circuits in risky decision-making
Period of Support: 8/15/2025–7/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $38,264
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Mental Health
Principal Investigator: Matthew Baker
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title: From Ions to Cells: Integrating Machine Learning and CryoEM to Resolve Macromolecular Complexity
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $275,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Principal Investigator: Hope Northrup
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Title: Developmental Synaptopathies Associated with TSC, PTEN, SHANK3 and SynGAP1 Pathogenic Variants
Period of Support: 11/11/2025–11/10/2026
Total Direct Costs: $24,000
Awarding Institution: Boston Children’s Hospital
Principal Investigator: Noor Rejjal
Department/Division: Educational Programs
Title: Implementing Precision Remediation via Data Mapping: A Pilot Study Using ExamSoft and ScholarRx
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $16,151
Awarding Institution: International Association of Medical Science Educators
Principal Investigator: Georgene Hergenroeder
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Title: The Pramod Dash, PhD Brain Injury Research Endowment
Period of Support: 11/11/2025–11/10/2026
Total Direct Costs: $10,000
Awarding Institution: TIRR Foundation
Principal Investigator: Vihang Narkar
Department/Division: Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases
Title: Intervention of endothelial senescence in limb muscle ischemia with exercise mimetics
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $275,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
May
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Temple
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Parents, partners, and family: Continuation of a long-term longitudinal study on partner violence (Dating it Safe)
Period of Support: 5/15/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $482,126
Awarding Institution: National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator: Matthew Rysavy
Department/Division: Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
Title: Humidity in Incubators for Tiny Infants (HumidITI) Trial
Period of Support: 6/1/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $516,668
Awarding Institution: National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Parchem
Department/Division: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Title: Trophoblast differentiation and placental aging
Period of Support: 5/15/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $491,431
Awarding Institution: National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Principal Investigator: Luis Ostrosky
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Clinical and Applied Research Strategies for the Prevention and Control of Fungal Diseases (SCAT TRIAL)
Period of Support: 9/30/2025–9/29/2028
Total Direct Costs: $75,384
Awarding Institution: University of Alabama Birmingham
Principal Investigator: Claudio Soto
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Development and validation of a high throughput screening assay for identification of tau aggregation inhibitors in Alzheimer’s disease
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $244,112
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Fudong Liu
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: The interaction of X chromosome and sex hormonal effects in stroke and neuroinflammation
Period of Support: 5/4/2026–3/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $1,987,100
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Sean Paul Marrelli
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Young BRAINS Summer Research Program
Period of Support: 6/1/2026–5/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $792,810
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Yankai Wen
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Role of Neutrophil-derived HIF1a signaling in Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Period of Support: 5/1/2026–3/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $732,500
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Principal Investigator: Andrew Pickering
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Title: Family Cellular Thermogenesis and Lifespan Modulation: Mechanisms of Cold-Temperature Aging in Drosophila
Period of Support: 6/1/2026–5/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $275,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
Principal Investigator: Larry Kramer
Department/Division: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Title: NASA-VFLOW
Period of Support: 3/20/2026–3/19/2031
Total Direct Costs: $94,723
Awarding Institution: NASA
Principal Investigator: Julio Cordero
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title: Training Core: Houston Area Incubator for Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Research Training (HAIKUH) – TRPC6 Variants in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: Structure – Function Mechanisms and Paths to Therapy (HAI-KUH TL1 Fellowship)
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $83,552
Awarding Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Rachel Miller
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Title: Training Core: Houston Area Incubator for Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Research Training Training Core: Houston Area Incubator for Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Research Training (HAIKUH) – Deciphering the Role of Dnmbp in Kidney Development: Implications For CAKUT
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $50,538
Awarding Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Zhongcong Xie
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Noninvasive optical assessment of neuroprotection in deep hypothermic circulatory arrest procedures
Period of Support: 5/1/2026–2/28/2030
Total Direct Costs: $86,932
Awarding Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator: Funlola Ganiat Are
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: PHBP – Parenting for Healthy Beginnings Program
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $272,727
Awarding Institution: The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation
Principal Investigator: Sloan William Lynch
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Fellowship to the Huntington’s Disease Professional Advancement & Commitment Track
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $102,000
Awarding Institution: Huntington Study Group
Principal Investigator: Akram Yazdani
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Shared Cardiometabolic Determinants in Cancer Survivors: AI-Driven Integration of Real-World Multimodal Data
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $136,149
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Erin Furr-Stimming
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Level 1 HDSA Center of Excellence
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–6/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $22,381
Awarding Institution: Huntington’s Disease Society of America
Principal Investigator: Daniel Sessler
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Professional Services: Manuscript Preparation TETHYS
Period of Support: 5/4/2026–5/3/2027
Total Direct Costs: $30,000
Awarding Institution: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmNH
Principal Investigator: Roy Riascos
Department/Division: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Title: Utilizing Different T1-weighted Sequences to Determine the Diagnostic Performance of Macrocyclic GBCA, Gadoterate Meglumine in 3 Tesla MRI
Period of Support: 5/12/2026–5/11/2027
Total Direct Costs: $68,412
Awarding Institution: GE Healthcare
Principal Investigator: Anne Dougherty
Department/Division: ACTAT
Title: McGovern Medical School Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $13,636
Awarding Institution: Abbott Laboratories
Principal Investigator: Timothy Achor
Department/Division: Orthopedic Surgery
Title: Arthrex Ortho Trauma Fellowship 2025-2026
Period of Support: 5/7/2026–5/6/2027
Total Direct Costs: $40,000
Awarding Institution: Arthrex, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Sriram Seshadri Nathan
Department/Division: ACTAT
Title: Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and ICU Cardiology Fellowship Program (26-27)
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $15,000
Awarding Institution: Abiomed, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Timothy Achor
Department/Division: Orthopedic Surgery
Title: Globus Ortho Trauma Fellowship 2026-27
Period of Support: 8/1/2026–7/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $60,000
Awarding Institution: Globus Medical Inc.
Principal Investigator: Mya Schiess
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Movement Disorders Fellowship AY 2026-2027
Period of Support: 4/28/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $20,000
Awarding Institution: Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC
Principal Investigator: Naveed Saqib
Department/Division: Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
Title: Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program – FY26-27
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $25,000
Awarding Institution: W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Salman Arain
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Medtronic Coronary Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Grant AY 2026-2027
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $4,000
Awarding Institution: Meditronic, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Marwan Jumean
Department/Division: ACTAT
Title: Delayed ARIES: Aspirin and Hemocompatibility Events in Advanced Heart Failure Patients Chronically Supported with a Left Ventricular Assist Device
Period of Support: 5/5/2026–7/30/2030
Total Direct Costs: $12,308
Awarding Institution: Columbia University
Principal Investigator: Amy Keiko Garcia
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Empowering Parents, Using “UnStuck and On Target” in supporting children with autism spectrum disorder
Period of Support: 5/27/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $438,760
Awarding Institution: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
April
Principal Investigator: Michael Nahhas
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Combined Thrombectomy for Distal MediUm Vessel Occlusion StroKe (DUSK)
Period of Support: 4/9/2026–1/25/2027
Total Direct Costs: $206,456
Awarding Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator: Ningyan Zhang
Department/Division: Institute of Molecular Medicine
Title: Microglia and Tau oligomers polymorphs interplay in cognitive resilience in AD
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $269,225
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
Principal Investigator: Claudio Soto
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Implementation and validation of a non-invasive aSyn-SAA test in biological fluids
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $796,114
Awarding Institution: Michael J. Fox Foundation
Principal Investigator: John Rasmussen
Department/Division: Institute of Molecular Medicine
Title: Assessing the impact of early physiotherapy on lymphatic dysfunction in breast cancer survivorship
Period of Support: 5/1/2026–4/30/2031
Total Direct Costs: $3,288,203
Awarding Institution: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Myriam Fornage
Department/Division: Institute of Molecular Medicine
Title: Early and Life course socioeconomic adversity and dementia risk in Hispanic Latinos
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $28,500
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
Principal Investigator: Leila Wood
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Qualified Residential Treatment Program Evaluation
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $250,420
Awarding Institution: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
Principal Investigator: John Compton Mosher
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Digital Biomarkers for Vascular Cognitive Decline in Patients with Minor Stroke
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $409,845
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
Principal Investigator: Paula Debroy Monzon
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Sarcopenic Obesity and Relationships with Immunometabolic Parameters in People with HIV – Leadership and Operations Center (LOC), AIDS Clinical Trials Group/Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally Transfer (Task Order 238/5137679)
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $166,437
Awarding Institution: National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator: Phuc Duc Nguyen
Department/Division: Family Medicine
Title: Family Practice Residency Training Program FY26
Period of Support: 4/16/2026–4/15/2027
Total Direct Costs: $312,388
Awarding Institution: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Principal Investigator: Hung Wen Lin
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Protein arginine methyltransferase-mediated vascular dementia in sickle cell disease
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $999,741
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Hung Wen Lin
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: ROCK-2 Inhibitors in NRL-1049 and NRL-2017
Period of Support: 4/27/2026–4/26/2027
Total Direct Costs: $38,462
Awarding Institution: Neurelis, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Xiangsheng Huang
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Microbiome-Circadian Interactions in Inflammaging
Period of Support: 5/1/2026–4/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $45,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
March
Principal Investigator: Catherine Ambrose
Department/Division: Orthopedic Surgery
Title: Therapies for Classical Ehlers Danlos syndrome
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $31,631
Awarding Institution: US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Principal Investigator: Claudio Soto
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Role of alpha-synuclein pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $399,070
Awarding Institution: Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Principal Investigator: Claudio Soto
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Development of disease-related huntingtin seed amplification assay for the detection of mutant huntingtin seeding species
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $650,787
Awarding Institution: CHDI Foundation, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Daniel Sessler
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Professional Services for Intramuscular Ketamine for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain in Emergency and Austere Care Settings
Period of Support: 3/5/2026–3/4/2027
Total Direct Costs: $25,000
Awarding Institution: Rx Bandz, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Daniel Sessler
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Title: Post-Operative Biomarker-Guided Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Period of Support: 4/21/2025–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $10,652
Awarding Institution: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Principal Investigator: Mya Schiess
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Movement Disorders Fellowship AY 2026-2027
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $20,000
Awarding Institution: Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC
Principal Investigator: Yang Liu
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Title: Regulation of ER-phagy during cellular stresses
Period of Support: 3/6/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $1,375,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Principal Investigator: Sunanjay Bajaj
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Objective Motor Phenotyping in a Rare Disease Cohort: A Scalable Framework for Clinical Trial
Period of Support: 3/9/2026–3/8/2027
Total Direct Costs: $20,000
Awarding Institution: Uplifting Athletes, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Rex Marco
Department/Division: Orthopedic Surgery
Title: Mindful Self-care intervention to improve health outcomes in persons with spinal cord injury
Period of Support: 4/30/2025–4/29/2027
Total Direct Costs: $22,500
Awarding Institution: Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
Principal Investigator: Jocelyn McConnell
Department/Division: Pediatrics, Children’s Learning Institute
Title: ROR – PNC GUG
Period of Support: 12/17/2025–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $11,364
Awarding Institution: PNC Foundation
Principal Investigator: Devin McBride
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Title: Skull Neutrophils after SAH
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $275,000
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Aaron Gusdon
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Title: Systemic Lipid Metabolism After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SLIM-SAH)
Period of Support: 3/17/2026–2/28/2031
Total Direct Costs: $2,214,538
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Principal Investigator: Samden Lhatoo
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: The FINTEPLA as an Anti-SUDEP Therapy in Dravet Syndrome (FAST-DS) Project.
Period of Support: 2/2/2026–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $405,150
Awarding Institution: UCB, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Yang Yang
Department/Division: Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Title: Role of Intestinal Eosinophils and Mucosal Immunity in Diet-induced Obesity
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $210,000
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Eunyoung Lee
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Identifying Quality-of-Care Gaps in Acute Stroke Using a Stroke-Associated Neighborhood Disadvantage Index (SANDI)
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $45,455
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Romaine Harmancey
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Proarrhythmogenic effects of NR4A2 associated with cardiac surgery
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $90,907
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Rodney Ritzel
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Sex-specific APOE-mediated mechanisms underlying stroke-related dementia
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $90,910
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Akram Yazdani
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Precision Risk Stratification for CKM-Associated Vascular Dementia
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2028
Total Direct Costs: $90,910
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Venkat Keshav Chivukula
Department/Division: Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation
Title: PRapid personalized assessment and prediction of right heart failure for LVAD recipients
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $69,999
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Angela Stotts
Department/Division: Family Medicine
Title: Integrated Care for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder: The IMPOWR Research Center at Montefiore/Einstein (IMPOWR-ME)
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $12,923
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Irene Stafford
Department/Division: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Title: The test performance and clinical utility of rapid point-of-care anti-treponemal tests for congenital syphilis
Period of Support: 3/23/2026–3/22/2028
Total Direct Costs: $115,325
Awarding Institution: Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Eric Thomas
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: HealthCoach: Designing and testing an LLM-driven coach to help patients with limited English proficiency or health literacy gain and activate personalized insights from their electronic health record visit notes
Period of Support: 8/8/2025–6/30/2029
Total Direct Costs: $47,932
Awarding Institution: National Library of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Constanza Inez Cataylo de Dios
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Stepped-care versus standard cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $5,392
Awarding Institution: Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium
Principal Investigator: Hung Wen Lin
Department/Division: Neurology
Title: Identifying Protein Arginine Methyltransferases in Human Alzheimer’s Disease
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $90,909
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Viola Caretti
Department/Division: Pediatrics, Neurology
Title: The Role of Gut Microbiota-Derived Butyrate in Inflammation and Neurological Outcomes after Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $300,000
Awarding Institution: National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator: Jessica Lee
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: The University of Texas Medical Student Training on Aging Research (UT-MSTAR) Program
Period of Support: 7/1/2025–6/30/2030
Total Direct Costs: $138,080
Awarding Institution: National Institute on Aging
Principal Investigator: Vishwa Sanjay Parekh
Department/Division: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Title: ARPA-H – Phase 2
Period of Support: 2/18/2026–8/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $44,373
Awarding Institution: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Principal Investigator: Jun Wang
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Title: Molecular Dissection of Sinoatrial Node in Dish
Period of Support: 4/1/2026–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $90,909
Awarding Institution: American Heart Association
Principal Investigator: Roberto Arduino
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infections [ACTG LOC_ TSG: REC] TASK Order 207
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $42,656
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator: Roberto Arduino
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: LOC-ACTG A5388 Co-Chair: TASK Order 205 Clinical Trial of Combination HIV-Specific Broadly Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies Combined with ART Initiation during Acute HIV Infection to Induce HIV Remission.
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $6,250
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator: Jordan Lake
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Title: ACTG LOC – CTSG V Chair TASK Order 206
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $28,438
Awarding Institution: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
February
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Two Human Milk Volumes to Optimize Growth and Gut Health in Infants Born Very Preterm
Principal Investigator: Maria del Mar Romero Lopez
Department/Division: Center for Clinical Research & Evidence-Based Medicine
Period of Support: 9/16/2025–6/30/2030
Total Direct Costs: $84,537.00
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Title: Role of Kynurenine- AhR Signals in Cholestatic Liver Injury
Principal Investigator: Mi Jeong Heo
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 3/1/2026–1/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $428,700.00
National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS
Title: Inter-Organelle UPR Coordination and Cellular Proteostasis
Principal Investigator: Hyun-Eui Kim
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Period of Support: 3/1/2026–12/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $250,000.00
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston
Title: Mental Health for Youth
Principal Investigator: Funlola Ganiat Are
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science (dept)
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $317,480.00
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Title: Mechanism of cancer induction of striated muscle wasting
Principal Investigator: Yi-Ping Li
Department/Division: Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $855,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Social Disconnectedness and Gut-Brain Axis Dysregulation in Dementia Risk
Principal Investigator: Jessica Lee
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $629,894.00
Dynocardia, Inc.
Title: Professional Services: Validation of Dynocardia
Principal Investigator: Mehmet Alparslan Turan
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 2/4/2026–2/3/2027
Total Direct Costs: $15,385.00
Texas Education Agency
Title: 2025-2026 School Readiness Models
Principal Investigator: April Crawford
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $11,390,035.00
Texas Education Agency
Title: 2025-2026 Professional Development Partnerships for Early Childhood Education
Principal Investigator: April Crawford
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $477,762.00
Arthrex, Inc.
Title: Sports Medicine Fellowship Program AY 2025-2026
Principal Investigator: Steven Flores
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 2/4/2026–2/3/2027
Total Direct Costs: $75,000.00
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
Title: Multidisciplinary Tardive Dyskinesia and Drug-Induced Movement Disorder Clinic with Fellowship Training Program
Principal Investigator: Swati Pradeep
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 2/16/2026–2/15/2027
Total Direct Costs: $25,000.00
January
Columbia University
Title: FunctIonal coaGulation and HemosTasis after IntraCerebral Hemorrhage (FIGHT-ICH)
Principal Investigator: HuiMahn Alex Choi
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 7/20/2025–4/30/2030
Total Direct Costs: $201,940.00
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Houston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Principal Investigator: Kristin L Mahan
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 9/9/2025–6/30/2030
Total Direct Costs: $823,955.00
Duke University
Title: Induced Suppression of Platelet Activity in Aneurysmal SAH Management-2
Principal Investigator: Spiros Blackburn
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $458,690.00
National Institute on Aging
Title: Contribution of intramural von Willebrand factor to cerebrovascular dysfunction in amyloidosis
Principal Investigator: Sean Paul Marrelli
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 2/1/2026–1/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $420,239.00
National Institute on Health
Title: Endothelial Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer’s disease
Principal Investigator: Jun Li
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 2/1/2026–12/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $419,301.00
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Title: Efficient BBB penetration of antibody-drug conjugates for improved treatment of brain metastases
Principal Investigator: Xin Ge
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $873,000.00
The University of Texas System
Title: Inpatient youth outcomes: Improving aggression and safety via sleep
Principal Investigator: Michelle Anne Patriquin
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $412,701.00
Emory University
Title: Regulation of B cell Responses in SLE and Other Autoimmune Diseases
Principal Investigator: Eleni Tiniakou
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 5/1/2025–4/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $82,277.00
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, Inc.
Title: New Strains, New Risks: Evaluating the Zoonotic Potential of CWD Prion Strains
Principal Investigator: Paulina Ivonne Soto
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 7/1/2026–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $100,000.00
Ed Rachal Foundation
Title: Reach Out and Read Program – Corpus Christi Area
Principal Investigator: Jocelyn M McConnell
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 2/1/2026–3/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $31,818.00
December
University of Tennessee
Title: Development of a model for determining fluid bilayer structure from cryo-EM images of biomembranes
Principal Investigator: M Neal Waxham
Department/Division: Neurobiology and Anatomy
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $125,228.00
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Title: Discovery of Plasma Biomarkers of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Principal Investigator: HuiMahn Alex Choi
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 3/1/2025–2/28/2027
Total Direct Costs: $666,474.00
UCB Pharma, Inc.
Title: SUDEP in Fintepla patients Coordinating Center
Principal Investigator: Samden Lhatoo
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 12/12/2025–6/11/2027
Total Direct Costs: $176,951.00
University of Colorado at Denver
Title: Network for Advancing Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy Research
Principal Investigator: Siddharth Kumar Prakash
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/15/2025–8/31/2030
Total Direct Costs: $50,551.00
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: Beyond Urea Kinetics: Balancing Tradeoffs in Dialyzer Design for the Next 50 Years
Principal Investigator: Venkat Keshav Chivukula
Department/Division: ACTAT
Period of Support: 7/1/2025–6/30/2029
Total Direct Costs: $100,129.00
American Heart Association
Title: Vessel-Associated Microglia Safeguard Vascular Integrity and Prevent Hemorrhage in Glioma
Principal Investigator: Jiaying Zheng
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $156,172.00
American Heart Association
Title: Decoding Smooth Muscle Cell Transcriptional Regulators in Health and Disease
Principal Investigator: Yan Zhang
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 1/1/2026–12/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $70,676.00
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
Title: Delivery of Mitochondria Using Extracellular Vesicles as a Novel Therapy for ALS
Principal Investigator: Devika Soundara Manickam
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/8/2025–6/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $2,245.00
BALT SAS
Title: The treatment of chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) through embolization of the middle meningeal artery (MMA) with the Optima family of coils
Principal Investigator: Sunil A Sheth
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 12/11/2025–12/10/2028
Total Direct Costs: $300,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: TARCC Symposium 2026
Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Morales
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $18,750.00
William Marsh Rice University
Title: BLAST-DCI – Biosensor Lysophosphatidic acid Assay for Subarachnoid hemorrhage Triage and Delayed Cerebral Ischemia prediction
Principal Investigator: Aaron M Gusdon
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 12/1/2025–11/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $55,281.00
November
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
Title: POLG Patients in Crisis – Collating Medical Knowledge and Creating Resources to Achieve Improvement in Patient Outcomes, Creating a POLG Crisis Response Database
Principal Investigator: Mary Kay Koenig
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $19,458.00
October
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Title: Cancer Therapeutics Training Program
Principal Investigator: Wenbo Li
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Period of Support: 8/1/2024–5/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $153,228.00
Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
Title: Evaluation of lymphatic impairment in patients with early chronic venous disease
Principal Investigator: John Rasmussen
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 10/8/2025–10/7/2026
Total Direct Costs: $122,546.00
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Title: Prioritizing Silencers Implicated in Schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Benxia Hu
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Period of Support: 1/15/2026–1/14/2028
Total Direct Costs: $70,000.00
U Foundation
Title: Exploration of neoantigen-directed immune-stimulating antibody conjugates for cancer therapy
Principal Investigator: Kyoji Tsuchikama
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 10/7/2025–10/6/2026
Total Direct Costs: $50,000.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Harnessing Arachidonate Metabolome in Traumatic Liver Injury
Principal Investigator: Kangho Kim
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $454,546.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: The impact of early, thawed cryoprecipitate on intra-cranial hemorrhagic progression among polytrauma patients: the Rapid Cryoprecipitate In Hemorrhagic Progression In Polytrauma Phenotype (RAPID CHIPP) multicenter, randomized controlled trial
Principal Investigator: Bryan A Cotton
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $342,615.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Developing a novel, immune-based intervention to reduce post-operative pain, opioid analgesic dose, and duration of opioid treatment following elective abdominal surgery
Principal Investigator: Alan Prossin
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $459,892.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Monocytes as mediators of TBI improvement post BM-MNC therapy
Principal Investigator: Scott Douglas Olson
Department/Division: Pediatric Surgery
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $454,546.00
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: Scott Douglas Olson
Department/Division: Pediatric Surgery
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $181,415.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Smart-TBI: Wearable sweat biosensors and AI-driven multimodal data fusion for early detection and monitoring of traumatic brain injury
Principal Investigator: Charles S Cox Jr
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $72,726.00
GE Healthcare
Title: Continuous Ward Monitoring with the GE Portrait Mobile Monitoring Solution: the COSMOS Cluster Cross-over Trial
Principal Investigator: Daniel Ira Sessler
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 10/29/2025–10/28/2026
Total Direct Costs: $50,000.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Identification and Remediation of Delays to Definitive Care of Critically Injured Patients in the Texas Trauma System (Remedy) with Advances in AI to Improve Care for Trauma
Principal Investigator: Lillian S Kao
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $40,910.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: title
Principal Investigator: Charles S Cox Jr
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $8,414.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: SWATT the FLAME (Fueling Lifesaving Advances in Metabolic Efficiency): A UT Burn Initiative
Principal Investigator: John Harvin
Department/Division: Center for Translational Injury Research
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $25,000.00
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation
Title: ROR – Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation
Principal Investigator: Jocelyn M McConnell
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 10/6/2025–6/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $13,636.00
Neuromatch Inc.
Title: AI Advocate: Safeguarding Dignity and Equity in Inpatient Psychiatry
Principal Investigator: Michelle Anne Patriquin
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $15,000.00
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
Title: Foot and Ankle Fellowship FY25/26
Principal Investigator: William C McGarvey
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 8/1/2025–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $19,934.00
TicTwo Therapeutics Inc.
Title: Cytokine and Chemokine Profiling in CSF and Serum Following Peripheral IFNα Administration
Principal Investigator: Wei Cao
Department/Division: Anesthesiology
Period of Support: 10/7/2025–2/7/2026
Total Direct Costs: $23,200.00
Pfizer, Inc.
Title: Zavegepant for the acute treatment of episodic cluster headache
Principal Investigator: Mark J Burish
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 10/9/2025–3/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $88,726.00
Joint Admission Medical Program
Title: Joint Admissions Medical Program FY2026
Principal Investigator: Rachel Jantea
Department/Division: Office of Admissions
Period of Support: 9/1/2025–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $70,000.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Understanding the Mechanical Environment of Fracture Healing: Dynamic Biplanar Videoradiography to Quantify Fracture Motion
Principal Investigator: Stephen Warner
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–9/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $454,045.00
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: UT System Pivotal Trial: Closed-loop Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Upper Limb Functional Recovery in Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries
Principal Investigator: Argyrios Stampas
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 10/1/2025–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $36,364.00
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