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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Funding
$12.7M
$12,696,359
Awards
25
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
20
20 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#26
of 136 · 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.
  • These are the awards in the Biochemistry row of the Baylor College of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Steven J Ludtke

    Leads 2 awards · $2,400,000

    • 1S10OD040075-01Department: NIH department code
      Acquisition of a 300 keV CryoEM/ET Instrument
      $2,000,000
      award amount
    • 5R35GM151999-03Department: NIH department code
      Support for CryoEM and CryoET Development in the Ludtke Lab
      $400,000
      award amount

  2. Jin Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,423,583

    • 1R01AI198974-01Department: NIH department code
      TARGETING VAV1 SCAFFOLDING AND ENZYMATIC FUNCTIONS IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS VIA BRAIN-PENETRANT MOLECULAR GLUE DEGRADERS
      $798,854
      award amount
    • 5R01CA268518-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of First-in-Class RIPK1 Degraders to Improve Cancer Immunotherapies
      $624,729
      award amount

  3. Damian Winston Young

    Leads 1 award · $1,343,997

    • 1R01AG098158-01Department: NIH department code
      Using DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries to Enable Machine Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery
      $1,343,997
      award amount

  4. Chad William Johnston

    Leads 2 awards · $853,797

    • 1R21DE035210-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Structures and functions of natural products in periodontal disease
      $453,797
      award amount
    • 1R35GM165700-01Department: NIH department code
      Principles of selectivity in taxa-specific antibacterial natural products
      $400,000
      award amount

  5. Zheng Zhou

    Leads 3 awards · $823,006

    • 5R01NS129847-05Department: NIH department code
      How are necrotic neurons recognized by their phagocytes
      $400,000
      award amount
    • 5R35GM153415-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms that regulate the degradation of dying cells
      $400,000
      award amount
    • 3R01NS129847-05S1Department: NIH department code
      How are necrotic neurons recognized by their phagocytes
      $23,006
      award amount

  6. Bidadi Venkataram Prasad

    Leads 1 award · $775,925

    • 5R01AI036040-38Department: NIH department code
      STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON ROTAVIRUS
      $775,925
      award amount

  7. Francis T.f. Tsai

    Leads 1 award · $752,172

    • 1R01AI198430-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic study of an RNA translocase via integrative multi-resolution approach
      $752,172
      award amount

  8. Thomas Westbrook

    Leads 1 award · $711,470

    • 5R01CA215226-09Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting of RNA Splicing in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
      $711,470
      award amount

  9. Zhao Wang

    Leads 1 award · $642,890

    • 5R01AI179879-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Assembly of Bacterial Tripartite Multidrug Efflux Pumps
      $642,890
      award amount

  10. Theodore G Wensel

    Leads 1 award · $593,838

    • 5T32GM150582-02Department: NIH department code
      The New Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program
      $593,838
      award amount

  11. Katerina Cermakova

    Leads 1 award · $416,000

    • 1R35GM166295-01Department: NIH department code
      A novel IDR-mediated interaction network linking chromatin state to RNA export
      $416,000
      award amount

  12. Anthony McDowell Mustoe

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM147010-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of structural dynamics in RNA regulation
      $400,000
      award amount

  13. Furqan Fazal

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM154922-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins in Subcellular RNA Localization
      $400,000
      award amount

  14. Anna Malovannaya

    Leads 1 award · $359,874

    • 1S10OD040169-01Department: NIH department code
      CELLENONE X1 NEO SYSTEM FOR PROTEOMICS RESEARCH
      $359,874
      award amount

  15. Josephine Chu Ferreon

    Leads 1 award · $345,620

    • 5R01GM122763-09Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Functionof Nanog in Stem Cell Pluripotency
      $345,620
      award amount

  16. Jeremy E Wilusz

    Leads 1 award · $200,000

    • 5R21AI190255-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional characterization of viral non-polyadenylated sequences that enable mRNA stability and translation
      $200,000
      award amount

  17. Xin Li

    Leads 1 award · $80,000

    • 5R03AI193192-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Antiviral Agents Targeting Zika and Dengue Virus
      $80,000
      award amount

  18. Lathan Garrett Lucas

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32AG099737-01Department: NIH department code
      Synergy in Condensation: Tau and Aβ in Alzheimer's Disease
      $76,300
      award amount

  19. Steven Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA314447-01Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering RNA Zipcodes: A Novel Framework for Subcellular Localization Element Annotation
      $50,114
      award amount

  20. Andrew Yang

    Leads 1 award · $47,773

    • 5F30CA278316-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel Triple-Negative Breast cancer vulnerability governed by PNPT1-mediated RNA decay
      $47,773
      award amount