FY2026 Grants

A listing of all current Department of Medicine grants ≥ $300,000.
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Antibody-Based Protection Against Flaviviruses | 340,725 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai | NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response | 304,200 |
| Fleckenstein, James M. | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Molecular pathogenesis of enterotoxigenic E. coli associated enteropathy | 437,614 |
| Humphreys, Benjamin Duane | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Roles and Regulation of Failed Repair Proximal Tubule in the AKI to CKD Transition | 695,859 |
| Maher, Christopher A. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Molecular Biomarkers of Long-Term Response to Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Radiation in Prostate Cancer | 360,945 |
| Marks, Laura | Infectious Diseases | Gilead Sciences Inc | Gilead Science Inc Focus Program | 348,167 |
| Murakami, Naoka | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Antigen-specific T cells in immunotherapy-associated acute kidney injury | 304,391 |
| Philips, Jen | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Mechanisms of Innate Immune Evasion by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis | 609,027 |
| Philips, Jen | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Defining host-pathogen oxysterol co-metabolites and their role in TB pathogenesis | 705,046 |
| Remedi, Maria Sara | Endocrinology | National Institute Of Health | Beta cell exhaustion and glucotoxicity in Diabetes | 625,889 |
| Rentschler, Stacey L. | Cardiology | Additional Ventures | Additional Ventures Cures Collaborative 2.0 | 394,053 |
| Saenz, Jose Bernardo | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) response in gastric pre-neoplasia | 557,398 |
| Singh, Nathan | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Decoding 41BB-specific dysfunction programs in cellular immunotherapies for cancer | 320,136 |
| Spencer, David H. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Dysregulated genome architecture in acute myeloid leukemia | 320,136 |
| Weber, Jason Dean | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Antagonistic role of ARF and ADAR1 in triple-negative breast cancer | 376,363 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldridge, Megan Tierney | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Structural and functional definition of human astrovirus-receptor interactions | 739,788 |
| Barrette, Ernie-Paul | Infectious Diseases | St. Louis City Department Of Health | Ryan White Part A Medical Case management | 682,541 |
| Cho, Jaehyung | Hematology | National Institute Of Health | Mechanisms regulating neutrophil proinflammatory activity in sepsis | 553,619 |
| Deepak, Parakkal | Gastroenterology | The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | Helmsley Radiomics – Improving the Precision of Management in Perianal Crohn’s Disease through Radiomics | 380,142 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Structure-Based Design Of Braod Flavivirus Immunogens | 602,685 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMPP (FLARE) | 629,855 |
| Dipersio, John F | Oncology | BlueSphere Bio | UCART2 for the treatment of patients with T cell lymphoma/leukemia | 6,250,000 |
| Hsieh, Chyi | Rheumatology | National Institute Of Health | Immune interactions with commensal microbes in early life | 353,335 |
| Humphreys, Benjamin Duane | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Proximal Tubule Alternative Splicing and Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease | 522,429 |
| Kau, Andrew L. | Allergy & Immunology | National Institute Of Health | Harnessing Antibody Responses – Harnessing Antibody Responses to Prevent and Treat Urinary Tract Infections | 418,378 |
| Maher, Christopher A | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Novel ctDNA biomarker for androgen therapy in metastatic prostate cancer | 541,980 |
| Paley, Michael Alexander | Rheumatology | Merck & Co. | Investigating the Effect of TL1A on Pathogenic CD8 T Cells in Spondyloarthritis | 485,502 |
| Rohatgi, Nidhi | Bone & Mineral Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Hepatic steatosis promotes liver metastasis | 551,088 |
| Scheller, Erica Lynn | Bone & Mineral Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Sarm1 and neural regulation of bone | 425,280 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson, Nicholas O | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Host-Environment Interactions In The Pathophysiology Of Digestive Disease | 517,433 |
| Stitziel, Nathan O. | Cardiology | University of Washington | Triglycerides, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease | 583,124 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler, Anne Mobley | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Intra-articular corticosteroid injections for symptomatic osteoarthritis: The effects of injection dose, frequency, and timing on safety | 536,892 |
| Chen, Maggie | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Activating Autophagy to Treat Uromodulin-Associated Genetic Chronic Kidney Disease | 757,265 |
| Cho, Jaehyung | Cardiology | Senseion Therapeutics, Inc. | Targeting Lrrc8 Signaling To Prevent & Treat Arterial Thrombosis In Type 2 Diabetes | 391,952 |
| Ciorba, Matthew Aaron | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Targeting Tryptophan Metabolism in Rectal Cancer | 588,204 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Structure-Function Analysis of Mxra8 Interaction with Alphaviruses | 343,815 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | The Development and Evaluation of Pan-Coronavirus Vaccines | 386,455 |
| Ding, Li | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Washington University PDX Development and Trial Center | 315,367 |
| Ding, Li | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Human Prostate Tumor Atlas Center | 864,293 |
| Fehniger, Todd A | Oncology | Blood Cancer United | Developing Novel Immunotherapies for Challenging Lymphomas | 386,961 |
| Fehniger, Todd A | Oncology | Paula & Rodger Riney Foundation | Engineering enhanced NK cell attack against myeloma | 550,000 |
| Griffith, Malachi | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Creation of a knowledgebase of high quality assertions of the clinical actionability of somatic variants in cancer | 482,593 |
| Griffith, Obi Lee | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Accelerating the expert-crowdsourcing of cancer variant interpretation in CIViC | 676,731 |
| Iwelunmor, Juliet | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Innovative Network on the Science and Practice of Implementation, Research, and Engagement Center | 736,406 |
| Iwelunmor, Juliet | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | US-Nigerian Cancer Control Center for Research on Implementation Science and Equity (C3-RISE) | 441,253 |
| Iwelunmor, Juliet | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Sustaining Innovative Tools to Expand Youth-Friendly HIV Self-Testing (S-ITEST) | 846,820 |
| Link, Daniel C | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Leukemia | 300,010 |
| Yokoyama, Wayne M | Rheumatology | National Institute Of Health | Natural killer cells subvert immune checkpoint therapy of tumors | 636,533 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batista, Luis Francisco Zirnberger | Hematology | National Institute Of Health | Mechanisms and relevance of miRNA decay during hematopoietic development | 485,978 |
| Chang-Panesso, Monica | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Cellular Senescence and the AKI to CKD transition | 1,491,303 |
| Dai, Zhiyu | Pulmonary & Critical Care | National Institute Of Health | Fatty acid-binding proteins sustain endothelial glycolysis and arterial programming inpulmonary arterial hypertension | 526,122 |
| Davila-Roman, Victor G | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | Washington University SummeR reseArch DIversity ProgrAm iN Cardiovascular Disease & HEmatology (RADIANCE) | 314,028 |
| DeNardo, David G. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Re-wiring PDAC Tumor Immunity Through Dendritic Cells | 381,417 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Human Antibodies as Broad Alphavirus Immunotherapeutics | 308,451 |
| Ding, Li | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Deep exploration of drivers, evolution, and microenvironment toward discovering principal themes in cancer | 380,063 |
| Ding, Li | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | SenNet Data Analysis Core – Washington University Senescence Tissue Mapping Center | 497,001 |
| Diwan, Abhinav | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | Principles in Cardiovascular Research Training Program | 302,592 |
| Finck, Brian N. | Nutritional Science | National Institute Of Health | Targeting hepatic stellate cell metabolism to treat steatotic liver disease | 740,328 |
| Geng, Elvin Hsing | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Midwest Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR) | 399,885 |
| Gillanders, Will | Oncology | Natera Inc | Natera, Inc. Joint Translational Master Research Collaboration Agreement | 330,000 |
| Haspel, Jeffrey A. | Pulmonary & Critical Care | National Institute Of Health | Circadian Clock Sensor – The circadian clock as an age sensor in asthma resolution | 774,827 |
| Humphreys, Benjamin Duane | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Washington University Chronic Kidney Disease National Resource Center | 358,960 |
| Iwelunmor, Juliet | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | I-TEST BP/Stroke – Innovative Tools to Expand Music-Inspired Strategies for Blood Pressure and Stroke Prevention | 368,296 |
| Jain, Sanjay | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Kidney single cell and spatial molecular atlas project | 350,107 |
| Javaheri, Ali | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | Apolipoprotein M: a novel regulator of myocardial Autophagy | 589,712 |
| Johnston, Kenton James | General Medicine & Geriatrics | Arnold Ventures | ACOs II – Understanding Value and Participation in Medicare APMs to Streamline Medicare Payment Policy | 510,434 |
| Klein, Samuel | Nutritional Science | National Institute Of Health | Exosomes and insulin action in metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity | 663,670 |
| Krais, John | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Regulation of the mitotic DNA damage response | 388,750 |
| Lenschow, Deborah J. | Rheumatology | National Institute Of Health | Immunobiology of the Rheumatic Diseases | 478,605 |
| Lim, Kian-Huat | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Targeting tumor innate immune signaling in pancreatic cancer | 391,277 |
| Mahjoub, Moe | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Loss of Cilia Maintenance in Acquired and Genetic Lung Diseases | 387,318 |
| Miner, Jeffrey H. | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Revealing New Therapeutic Opportunities for Kidney Glomerular Diseases by Elucidating the Mechanobiological Functions of Novel Cytoskeletal Structures in Podocytes | 326,537 |
| Odeny, Thomas A. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | PRecision IMaging to Evaluate Kaposi Sarcoma | 472,053 |
| Paley, Michael Alexander | Rheumatology | Department of Defense | Harnessing Single-Cell T-Cell-Receptor Sequencing to Accelerate Diagnosis in Inflammatory Arthritis | 313,378 |
| Peterson, Linda R. | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | The Inorganic Nitrate and eXercise performance in Heart Failure (iNIX-HF): – a phase II clinical trial | 521,076 |
| Ratner, Lee | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Admin Core – Retrovirus Models of Cancer | 501,601 |
| Reeds, Dominic N. | Institute of Clinical & Translational Sciences | National Institute Of Health | Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program In Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases | 402,998 |
| Shmuylovich, Leo | Dermatology | National Institute Of Health | Infrared Skin Imaging to Transform Noninvasive Diagnosis and Management of Skin Disease | 393,750 |
| Veis, Deborah J. | Bone & Mineral Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Differential Inflammasome Regulation in the pathogenesis of S. aureus osteomyelitis | 566,206 |
| Yokoyama, Wayne M. | Business Office | National Institute Of Health | Infectious Disease/Immunology Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (ID/IMM StARR) Program at Washington University | 539,999 |
| Yokoyama, Wayne M. | Rheumatology | National Institute Of Health | Natural Killer Cell Control Of Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection | 1,311,786 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antes Schuelke, Alison Lynne | General Medicine & Geriatrics | National Institute Of Health | Program for Advancing Early-Career Researcher Excellence through Leadership and Management Practices | 367,687 |
| Barrette, Ernie-Paul | Infectious Diseases | State Of Missouri | Lost to Care (HIV Retention in Care/Peer Navigation) | 311,212 |
| Bernal-Mizrachi, Carlos | Endocrinology | National Institute Of Health | Vitamin D Deficiency, Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular disease | 743,699 |
| Bolton, Kelly | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | The Impact of inherited and modifiable risk factors on clonal hematopoiesis and age-related disease | 417,808 |
| Boon, Jacco | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Transmission R01 -Transmission of CoV-2 and the Impact of Spike Protein Evolution | 399,418 |
| Chen, Feng | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Creating high-resolution multi-omics molecular atlases for developing urogenital organs | 345,676 |
| Choudhury, Malay | Pulmonary & Critical Care | National Institute Of Health | Targeting the Amino Acid Transporter SLC7A5 for Pulmonary Fibrosis | 511,293 |
| Ciorba, Matthew Aaron | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Clinical/Laboratory Training Academic Gastroenterology | 476,777 |
| Dai, Zhiyu | Pulmonary & Critical Care | National Institute Of Health | General Capillary to Arterial Endothelial Cell Transition in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | 690,799 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | LDLRAD3 Receptor Interaction with Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus | 388,308 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Meningeal Immunity and Viral Neuropathogenesis | 386,683 |
| Hirbe, Angela Christine | Oncology | Department of Defense | NFRP 2 – Understanding and Targeting Epigenetic Vulnerabilities in NF1-MPNST | 757,816 |
| Jain, Sanjay | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Single cell multiomic and spatial atlas of acute and chronic kidney injury | 1,020,430 |
| Ley, Timothy J | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Molecular Pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia | 932,549 |
| Maher, Christopher A | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | The role of RAMS11 in colorectal cancer progression and treatment resistance | 544,644 |
| Mitreva, Makedonka | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Advancing lymphatic filariasis elimination with parasite genomic epidemiology | 777,360 |
| Schilling, Joel D. | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | Schilling Prime – Harnessing macrophage lysosomal lipid metabolism in obesity-associated diseases | 427,553 |
| Semenkovich, Clay F. | Endocrinology | National Institute Of Health | Diabetes and Related Metabolic Diseases | 862,052 |
| Shen, Chen | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Mechanistic Study of HIV Gag in sequestering the CARD8 inflammasome | 650,934 |
| Shen, Chen | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Structural and mechanistic study of bat NLRP6 inflammasome in detecting RNA viruses | 397,963 |
| Washington, Karla | Palliative Medicine | National Institute Of Health | Problem-Solving Therapy For Cancer Caregivers: A Randomized Clinical Trial In Outpatient Palliative Care | 410,707 |
| Young, Andrew Lee | Hematology | National Institute Of Health | Understanding the Impact of Clonal Hematopoiesis on Aging Human Bone Marrow | 388,750 |
| Principal Investigator | Division | Sponsor | Grant | Award Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciorba, Matthew Aaron | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Mechanisms Of Gastrointestinal Covid-19 | 588,062 |
| Cresci, Sharon | Cardiology | National Institute Of Health | Determining Potential Mechanisms Of Worse Outcomes In Black Hcm Patients | 522,471 |
| Davidson, Nicholas O. | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Impaired VLDL Secretion In Progression Of NAFLD And Nash In Mice And Humans | 554,435 |
| DeNardo, David G. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Stomal Senescence Regulator Of Tumor Immunity And Progression | 441,995 |
| Diamond, Michael | Infectious Diseases | University of Colorado Denver | Alphavirus Pathogenesis And Immunity | 357,650 |
| Fischer, Peter Uwe | Infectious Diseases | The Foundation For Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Infectious Disease Research Award | 399,979 |
| Goldberg, Daniel E. | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Function Of PFNCR1 At The PPM/PVM Interface | 361,743 |
| Leung, Daisy W. | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Mechanisms Of Host Response Modulation By Rsv Non-Structural Proteins | 400,038 |
| Lim, Kian-Huat | Oncology | The Foundation For Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Jackson Pancreatic Research Fd | 360,000 |
| Link, Daniel C. | Oncology | The Foundation For Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Designated -M & A Small Cancer Res Endow | 460,596 |
| Link, Daniel C. | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Optimizing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation For The Treatment Of Hematological Malignancies | 713,138 |
| McIntosh, Tristan Joy | General Medicine & Geriatrics | National Institute Of Health | Fostering Ethical Neurotechnology Academia-Industry Partnerships: A Stakeholder Engagement And Toolkit Development Project | 314,888 |
| Millman, Jeffrey R. | Endocrinology | Scripps Research Institute | Studying The Mechanisms Of Initiation And Progression Of Beta Cell Death In T1D | 381,768 |
| Miner, Jeffrey H. | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Innovative Approaches To Treating Alport Syndrome | 447,969 |
| Newberry, Rodney D. | Gastroenterology | National Institute Of Health | Goblet Cells In Intestinal Homeostasis | 449,278 |
| Philips, Jen | Infectious Diseases | National Institute Of Health | Understanding Early Macrophage-T Cell Interactions, Slamf1, And Immunity To Tb | 772,420 |
| Powderly, Bill | Institute of Clinical & Translational Sciences | The Foundation For Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Annual Funding Request Cc0000939 – L58 – Bjc Endowment | 466,548 |
| Ratner, Lee | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Inhibition Of T-Cell Receptor Signaling For Treatment Of Adult T-Cell Leukemia Lymphoma | 360,282 |
| Rauchman, Michael I. | Nephrology & Kidney Centers | National Institute Of Health | Epigenetic Mechanisms Of Gene Regulation In Nephron Progenitor Cell Proliferation And Differentiation | 420,314 |
| Verma, Priyanka | Oncology | National Institute Of Health | Targeting Base Damage Repair In Brca-Mutant Cancers | 406,875 |
| Weilbaecher, Katherine N. | Oncology | The Foundation For Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Pat Burkhart Breast Cancer Foundation | 300,000 |