June 2026 Member Grant Awards
| Congratulations to the CIEHS members who had new grants, supplements and competitive renewals activated/awarded in the month of June 2026! Below is a list of the new awards. We are so proud of all the hard work of our CIEHS members. You truly are making UofL a nationally recognized premier metropolitan research University and promoting interdisciplinary collaborative research in our Center! | ||||
| PI Name | Other Investigator | Long Title | Sponsor | Amount |
| Matthew Cave | Ashwani Singal; Cheri Levinson; Helen Collins; Kim Williams; Lori Devlin Phinney; Ramesh Gupta; Shahid Baba; Sriprakash Mokshagundam; Steven Jones | AWD-00000415|Admin Core | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $369,519.00 |
| Matthew Cave | AWD-00000415|Core B | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $157,989.00 | |
| Matthew Cave | Israel Sithu; Pawel Lorkiewicz | AWD-00000415|Core C | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $208,001.00 |
| Matthew Cave | Daniel Riggs; Eric Rouchka; Olfa Nasraoui; Richa Singhal | AWD-00000415|Core D | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $203,641.00 |
| Matthew Cave | AWD-00000415|Project 1 Wahlang | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $353,250.00 | |
| Matthew Cave | Andrew Gibb | AWD-00000415|Project 2 Gibb | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $353,250.00 |
| Matthew Cave | Ryan Doster | AWD-00000415|Project 3 Doster | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $353,250.00 |
| Matthew Cave | Bradford Hill | AWD-00000415|Alterations Core | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $300,000.00 |
| Matthew Cave | Josiah Hardesty | AWD-00000415|Project 4 Hardesty | Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) COBRE | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $353,250.00 |
| Jiapeng Huang | Michelle Barati | AWD-00000393|Cadmium-Induced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Pathogenesis and Underlying Mechanisms | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $425,987.00 |
| Sham Kakar | Dinesh Kalra; Whitney Goldsberry | AWD-00000391 | A novel combination therapy for recurrent ovarian cancer | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $403,686.00 |
| Melissa Smith | AWD-00000411 | HIV Reservoir Dynamics and Immune Responses Across the Female Reproductive Life Span | Johns Hopkins University_JHU | $17,005.00 | |
| Alex Carll | Helen Collins; Pawel Lorkiewicz | AWD-00000422 | Cardiorespiratory and autonomic impacts of coolants in e-cigarette aerosols | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $782,293.00 |
| James Collins | Venkatakrishna Jala | AWD-00000409 | Defining Microbial and Host Pathways Driving Asymptomatic C. difficile Colonization Associated with Aging and High-Sugar Diets | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $649,186.00 |
| Corey Watson | Melissa Smith | AWD-00000413 | Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Investigating the drivers of interspecific variation in antibody immunity using comparative genomic and phylogenetic approaches | National Science Foundation_NSF | $542,324.00 |
| Xiang Zhang | Liqing He | Improved Methods and Commercialization of a Multimodal Vibrating Sharp-Edge Spray Ionization Source | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $739,172.00 |
| AWD-00000370|Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network | National Institutes of Health - NIH | $12,084.00 | |
| Total New Awards June 2026 | $6,223,887.00 | |||