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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at Mass General Brigham

Boston, MA · Sum of member hospitals

Funding
$27.3M
$27,286,622
Awards
47
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
43
39 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 74 with hospitals and health systems listed separately · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations, or under a department inferred from the award's topic when no affiliation names one. Each award below says which. How departments are assigned
  • Awards at Mass General Brigham's member hospitals under the department-ranking rules: awards with a department, R&D contracts left out. They match Mass General Brigham's Ophthalmology row on the system page.

By member hospital

Where NIH made these awards. Each hospital's page lists its own investigators.

Leads a grant in this department

39 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. David C Hooper

    Leads 1 award · $2,229,808

  2. Eleftherios Mylonakis

    Leads 1 award · $2,229,808

  3. Johan Paulsson

    Leads 1 award · $2,229,808

  4. Michael S Gilmore

    Leads 1 award · $2,229,808

  5. Suzanne Walker

    Leads 1 award · $2,229,808

  6. Sunil K Chauhan

    Leads 3 awards · $1,930,740

  7. Reza Dana

    Leads 3 awards · $1,683,563

    • 2K12EY016335-21Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mass Eye and Ear-Vision Clinical Scientist Development Program
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $603,501
      award amount
    • 5R01EY020889-16Department: investigator's affiliation
      Immunopathogenic Mechanisms of Dry Eye Disease
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $587,562
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033288-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Impact of Donor Diabetes on Corneal Immune Cells and Graft Survival
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $492,500
      award amount

  8. Mengyu Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,538,977

    • 1R01EY038687-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Developing Multimodal Foundation Models for Eye Disease Screening and Prognosis
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $858,394
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036222-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Developing Population-Generalizable Deep Learning Models for Automated Glaucoma Screening
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $680,583
      award amount

  9. Tobias Elze

    Leads 2 awards · $1,451,770

  10. Ayellet Vered Segre

    Leads 2 awards · $1,407,935

  11. Eric A Pierce

    Leads 2 awards · $1,363,113

  12. Anil K. Chekuri

    Leads 2 awards · $1,253,470

    • 5R01EY036009-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Optic neuropathy in familial dysautonomia: determination of disease mechanisms and functional rescue.
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $795,539
      award amount
    • 1R21EY037359-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Development of mini-USH2A gene therapy to treat Usher syndrome type 2A.
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $457,931
      award amount

  13. Gang Luo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,236,106

    • 1R01EY037707-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Navigation assistance using multimodal LLM and computer vision
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $878,988
      award amount
    • 5R33EY034345-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Overcome the barriers of vision care in Africa using smartphones
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear

      Principal investigators: Gang Luo (contact PI), John H Kempen

      $357,118
      award amount

  14. Lotfi Merabet

    Leads 2 awards · $1,227,776

    • 2R01EY030973-06A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Characterization and Assessment of Higher-order Visual Dysfunction in Cerebral Visual Impairment
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $760,499
      award amount
    • 1R21EY038960-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment Combined with Mobile Eye Tracking to Inform Diagnosis in Cerebral Visual Impairment
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $467,277
      award amount

  15. Patricia Ann D'amore

    Leads 2 awards · $1,189,446

  16. Janey L Wiggs

    Leads 2 awards · $1,095,796

  17. David S Friedman

    Leads 1 award · $1,009,558

    • 1R01EY039033-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      A multi-level technology-enabled intervention to improve outcomes in patients with diabetic eye disease
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $1,009,558
      award amount

  18. Joseph B. Ciolino

    Leads 2 awards · $950,956

    • 5R01EY005665-41Department: investigator's affiliation
      Corneal Epithelial-Stromal Interactions During Regeneration and Fibrosis
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $616,322
      award amount
    • 5UH3NS131518-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Anesthetic-Eluting Contact Lens for Corneal Pain
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $334,634
      award amount

  19. Pablo Argueso

    Leads 1 award · $945,740

  20. Alexandra Rae Bowers

    Leads 1 award · $903,101

    • 2R01EY025677-10Department: topic-inferred
      Scanning and Detection at Intersections
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $903,101
      award amount

  21. Paulo J. M. Bispo

    Leads 2 awards · $850,000

    • 5R01EY036137-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Rapid Diagnosis of Ocular Infections using a Sensitive and Highly Multiplexed Broad Pathogen Detection Assay
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $425,000
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036444-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Point-of-Care Metagenomics for Rapid Detection of pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Sight-Threatening Ocular Infections
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $425,000
      award amount

  22. Dong Feng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $834,935

  23. Yihe Chen

    Leads 3 awards · $738,751

    • 5R01EY034111-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mechanisms of immunological memory-mediated pathogenesis in chronic autoimmune uveitis
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $492,500
      award amount
    • 5R21EY035970-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cytoprotective and Pro-regenerative Neuropeptide as Countermeasure to Mustard Gas Ocular Damage
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $246,250
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035215-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Immune Mechanisms of Chronic Ocular Damage after Acute Exposure to Nitrogen Mustard
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $1
      award amount

  24. Nazlee Zebardast

    Leads 1 award · $697,598

    • 5R01EY036518-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Enhancing Glaucoma Risk Prediction through Advanced Genomics and Machine Learning
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $697,598
      award amount

  25. Deeba Husain

    Leads 1 award · $692,941

    • 5R01EY030088-07Department: investigator's affiliation
      Metabolomics a Novel Tool for Investigating the Pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $692,941
      award amount

  26. Kinga Bujakowska

    Leads 1 award · $684,891

    • 5R01EY035717-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Finding Missing Genetic Causality of Inherited Retinal Degenerations
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $684,891
      award amount

  27. Ryoji Amamoto

    Leads 1 award · $663,406

    • 1R01EY038190-01Department: topic-inferred
      Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of secondary cone degeneration in models of Retinitis Pigmentosa
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $663,406
      award amount

  28. Meredith Gregory-Ksander

    Leads 1 award · $639,352

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EY007145-27, led by Patricia Ann D'amore.

  29. Ula V. Jurkunas

    Leads 1 award · $607,779

    • 5R01EY020581-17Department: investigator's affiliation
      Role of Oxidative Stress in Pathogenesis of Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $607,779
      award amount

  30. Qin Liu

    Leads 1 award · $595,058

    • 5R01EY033107-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing approaches for the treatment of USH2A-associated diseases
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $595,058
      award amount

  31. Daniel Sun

    Leads 1 award · $545,948

    • 1R01EY037230-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Understanding the role of reactive astrocytes in glaucoma
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $545,948
      award amount

  32. Thomas Dohlman

    Leads 1 award · $545,532

    • 5R01EY037257-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Fibrosis-Immunity Interface in Corneal Transplantation
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $545,532
      award amount

  33. Milica Margeta

    Leads 1 award · $492,500

    • 5R01EY035312-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mechanisms of microglial neuroinflammatory response in glaucoma
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $492,500
      award amount

  34. Tatjana Claudia Jakobs

    Leads 1 award · $425,000

    • 5R01EY019703-16Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cell Biology of Astrocyte-Ganglion Cell Interactions in the Retina and Optic Nerve
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $425,000
      award amount

  35. Elizabeth Jeffries Rossin

    Leads 1 award · $277,072

    • 5K23EY035342-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Genetics of central serous chorioretinopathy and choroidal thickening
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $277,072
      award amount

  36. Inas F. Aboobakar

    Leads 1 award · $269,782

    • 5K23EY035734-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Clinical and functional assessment of glaucoma-associated mitochondrial gene variants to facilitate precision eye care
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $269,782
      award amount

  37. Levi N Kanu

    Leads 1 award · $260,661

    • 5K08EY037382-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Nanomaterials to improve growth factor delivery to the cornea
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $260,661
      award amount

  38. Amit Chatterjee

    Leads 1 award · $132,837

    • 1K99EY037781-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Hormonal Dynamics and Extracellular Vesicle Function in Keratoconus: Exploring Pathophysiology and Developing Targeted Therapies
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear
      $132,837
      award amount

  39. Victoria Honnell

    Leads 1 award · $93,536

    • 7K00DA060571-04Department: topic-inferred
      Identifying mechanisms of cell fate determination in the regenerating zebrafish retina
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
      $93,536
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.

  • Jianzhu Chen

    Co-investigator on 2R01EY031696-06, led by Dong Feng Chen

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Lucy Q Shen

    Co-investigator on 2R01EY031696-06, led by Dong Feng Chen

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Bruce R Ksander

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY036910-02, led by Meredith Gregory-Ksander

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • John H Kempen

    Co-investigator on 5R33EY034345-05, led by Gang Luo

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads