NIH K25 Grants — Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award

Recent K25 awards from NIH RePORTER

Examples of funded K25 projects across the last two fiscal years. The matching-award count comes from the full result set; funding totals, averages, rankings, and examples use the first 500 records returned by NIH RePORTER. Figures reflect a snapshot last refreshed on September 5, 2026.

Example K25 projects from the sample

• Intelligent Bioelectronic Implants for the Diagnosis and Neuromodulation of Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction

  1K25DK144708-01A1
  Zhengwei Li · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, TX · $167,696 · awarded Aug 27, 2026 · NIH

  Project Summary Urological dysfunction following spinal cord injury (SCI) often includes neurogenic bladder and detrusor sphincter dyssynergia (DSD), where the external urethral sphincter (EUS) fails to relax during detrusor muscle contraction, resulting in inefficient bladder emptying. Unfortunately, current treatments—including pharmacotherapy, botulinum…

• Optimizing Congenital Aortic Valve Surgery with Simulation-Guided Design

  5K25HL175208-03
  Alexander Kaiser · STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA · $181,872 · awarded Aug 21, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY Congenital heart disease occurs in about 1% of births, making it the most common type of birth defect and leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. Congenital aortic valve disease, one category of congenital heart disease, frequently requires surgery. Despite generally positive results, undesirable outcomes remain common, and…

• Multi-omic network methods for mapping molecular trajectories of age-related lung diseases

  7K25HL175222-02
  Katherine Shutta · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE, MD · $126,322 · awarded Aug 20, 2026 · NIH

  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are progressive lung diseases that are substantial sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Both diseases have common origins beginning with injury to the lung from environmental exposures such as cigarette smoke or particulates from biomass fuels. However, people with…

• Translational XR and AI Technologies with Dynamic Soft Robotic Hearts for Immersive Clinical Training and Future Intraoperative Guidance in Interventional Cardiology

  1K25HL186244-01
  Mohsen Annabestani · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV, NY · $100,805 · awarded Aug 19, 2026 · NIH

  Project Summary This K25 project aims to revolutionize structural heart intervention training and procedural guidance by developing an advanced extended reality (XR) platform integrated with AI, soft robotics, and fluoroscopy- compatible systems to address critical clinical challenges in procedures like atrial septal defect (ASD) closure, left atrial…

• Ultra-Low Field MRI for Assessment of Congenital Heart Disease

  1K25HL183904-01A1
  Jonathan Martin · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, TN · $174,621 · awarded Aug 19, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Objective: The goal of this research is to develop cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) techniques for monitoring congenital heart disease (CHD) that are more robust, safe, and accessible than conventional CMR, which is performed at high magnetic field strengths. I will achieve this by implementing CMR on an ultra-low field…

• Roles of Red Blood Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Complement Activation and Thromboinflammation in sickle cell disease

  5K25HL159358-05
  Ran An · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, TX · $106,486 · awarded Aug 17, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by abnormal polymerization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin, which damages red blood cells (RBCs), resulting in hemolysis and thromboinflammation. Sickled-RBCs lead to heterogeneous clinical complications in SCD and induce challenges in determining the exact therapeutic interventions. Extracellular…

• Using Microfluidics to Identify Mechanisms of Platelet Dysfunction and Assess Therapeutic Efficacy in Traumatic Hemorrhage

  5K25HL161401-05
  Susan Shea · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH, PA · $128,072 · awarded Aug 17, 2026 · NIH

  This proposal consists of a five-year plan to develop Susan M. Shea, PhD into an independent translational scientist in the field of trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC) and therapeutic assessment of hemostatic blood products. The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is an outstanding institution for Dr. Shea to establish her research program, as there is a…

• Correlating Genotype and Phenotype of Metastatic Cancer Cells In Vivo Using Nanolaser Optical Barcode

  7K25CA301033-02
  Sangyeon Cho · RICE UNIVERSITY, TX · $23,525 · awarded Aug 7, 2026 · NIH

  Project Summary. The complex dynamics of metastatic cancer, which include processes like plasticity, immune evasion, and therapy resistance, pose significant challenges to effective treatment. While emerging single-cell sequencing technologies now aid in understanding the unique genome expression of individual cancer cells within heterogeneous tumor…

• Statistical physics and network-based approaches for elucidating molecular biomarkers of COPD

  5K25HL166208-04
  Xuwen Wang · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, MA · $189,000 · awarded Aug 7, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs. As a common complex disease, COPD has high global morbidity and mortality. Indeed, deaths due to respiratory disease numbered nearly four million, which was mostly contributed by COPD. There is a clear demand to…

• Machine learning-based methods for phenotyping dementia patients from electronic health record data

  5K25AG083064-04
  Roy Adams · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD · $136,001 · awarded Aug 6, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Candidate: Dr. Roy Adams applies for this K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award with the goal of building a productive independent research career as a methodologist focused on developing electronic health record (EHR)-based models and tools to improve our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related…

• Mechanogenomics of the asthmatic airway epithelium

  5K25HL168157-04
  Margherita De Marzio · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, MA · $188,920 · awarded Aug 3, 2026 · NIH

  Summary/Abstract Airway wall remodeling is one of the most documented hallmarks of asthma. Despite being a key clinical trait of long-term asthma, this pathological condition remains largely uncontrolled even with front-line therapies. Remodeling processes have been traditionally described as an aberrant response to chronic inflammation. However, this…

• Predicting symptom onset and clinical progression with blood biomarkers of Alzheimer disease

  1K25AG095391-01A1
  Kellen Petersen · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, MO · $151,480 · awarded Aug 3, 2026 · NIH

  PROJECT SUMMARY This Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award consists of an integrated career development plan and research project designed to enable Dr. Kellen Petersen to become an independent investigator focused on applying advanced mathematical and computational models to the study of Alzheimer Disease (AD) and blood-based biomarkers.…

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