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FY2021 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Funding
$101M
$100,979,668
Awards
91
FY2021 NIH awards in Genetics
Principal investigators
64
64 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 54 · 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 Genetics row of the Baylor College of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

64 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. Boerwinkle, Eric A.

    Leads 1 award · $44,470,704

    • 3OT2OD002751-01S3Department: NIH department code
      The Baylor-Hopkins Clinical Genomics Center for All of Us
      $44,470,704
      award amount

  2. Zheng, Hui

    Leads 3 awards · $4,709,990

    • 1P01AG066606-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Lysosome Regulation and Signaling in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
      $2,633,006
      award amount
    • 2RF1NS093652-06Department: NIH department code
      ROLE OF TFEB IN TAUOPATHY
      $1,511,862
      award amount
    • 5R01AG020670-20Department: NIH department code
      Knockin Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease
      $565,122
      award amount

  3. Bellen, Hugo J

    Leads 6 awards · $3,679,786

    • 1R01HG011795-01Department: NIH department code
      Genomic medicine and gene function implementation for an underserved population
      $962,213
      award amount
    • 1R24OD031447-01Department: NIH department code
      A Comprehensive Resource for Manipulating the Drosophila Genome
      $802,136
      award amount
    • 5R24OD022005-06Department: NIH department code
      A Human cDNA Library for Functional Gene Replacement in Drosophila
      $754,627
      award amount
    • 5U54NS093793-07Department: NIH department code
      Center for functional analysis of human UDN gene homologs in Drosophila and zebrafish
      $535,168
      award amount
    • 1R01AG073260-01Department: NIH department code
      IMPACTS OF GLIAL LIPID DROPLETS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND NEURODEGENERATION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
      $475,650
      award amount
    • 3U54NS093793-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Integration of MARRVEL and ModelMatcher to facilitate undiagnosed disease research
      $149,992
      award amount

  4. Lee, Brendan

    Leads 5 awards · $2,902,761

    • 5U54AR068069-08Department: NIH department code
      BRITTLE BONE DISORDERS CONSORTIUM OF THE RARE DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK
      $1,389,055
      award amount
    • 1R01DE031162-01Department: NIH department code
      WNT1 Function in Stem Cells in Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Craniofacial-Skeletal Tissues
      $576,000
      award amount
    • 5T32GM007526-44Department: NIH department code
      Medical Genetics Research Fellowship Program
      $558,397
      award amount
    • 3U54AR068069-07S2Department: NIH department code
      BRITTLE BONE DISORDERS CONSORTIUM OF THE RARE DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK
      $314,781
      award amount
    • 3U54AR068069-08S1Department: NIH department code
      DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT: BRITTLE BONE DISORDERS CONSORTIUM OF THE RARE DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK
      $64,528
      award amount

  5. Nelson, David Loren

    Leads 3 awards · $2,583,538

    • 5P50HD104463-02Department: NIH department code
      Fragile X Premutations, Mechanisms and Modifiers
      $1,800,000
      award amount
    • 5R01NS051630-16Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Basis of rCGG-Mediated Neurodegeneration
      $393,435
      award amount
    • 5T32GM136560-02Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
      $390,103
      award amount

  6. Dickinson, Mary E

    Leads 1 award · $2,559,904

    • 3UM1HG006348-10S3Department: NIH department code
      Consortium for large-scale production and phenotyping of knockout mice (UM1)
      $2,559,904
      award amount

  7. Gibbs, Richard A

    Leads 1 award · $2,351,300

    • 1U01HG011758-01Department: NIH department code
      Baylor College of Medicine - Mendelian Genomics Research Center (BCM-MGRC)
      $2,351,300
      award amount

  8. Lichtarge, Olivier

    Leads 3 awards · $2,064,496

    • 1U01AG068214-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Computing of Alzheimer's Disease Genes and Risk
      $799,998
      award amount
    • 5R01AG061105-04Department: NIH department code
      A knowledge map to find Alzheimer's disease drugs
      $792,498
      award amount
    • 5R01GM066099-16Department: NIH department code
      Functional Determinants in G-Protein-Coupled Receptors
      $472,000
      award amount

  9. Dang, Weiwei

    Leads 3 awards · $2,000,837

    • 1RF1AG074540-01Department: NIH department code
      Lysosomal NADPH metabolism regulates proteostasis, aging and tauopathy
      $1,591,453
      award amount
    • 5R01AG052507-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of longevity through maintenance of transcription fidelity
      $325,335
      award amount
    • 3R01AG052507-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Diversity Supplement for Regulation of longevity through maintenance of transcription fidelity
      $84,049
      award amount

  10. Burrage, Lindsay C

    Leads 1 award · $1,989,483

    • 5U54OD030165-02Department: NIH department code
      BCM Center for Precision Medicine Models
      $1,989,483
      award amount

  11. Galas, David J.

    Leads 2 awards · $1,492,009

    • 3U54DA049098-03S1Department: NIH department code
      DATA MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE REPOSITORY FOR THE exRNA ATLAS PHASE II
      $992,009
      award amount
    • 5U54DA049098-03Department: NIH department code
      DATA MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE REPOSITORY FOR THE exRNA ATLAS PHASE II
      $500,000
      award amount

  12. Chen, Rui

    Leads 1 award · $1,406,263

    • 5U24EY029904-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel model systems for the study of cone disorders and other heritable retinal diseases
      $1,406,263
      award amount

  13. Bacino, Carlos A.

    Leads 3 awards · $1,399,922

    • 5U01HG007709-08Department: NIH department code
      BCM Clinical Site for an Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) Phase II (U01)
      $1,100,000
      award amount
    • 3U01HG007709-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Expanding and sustaining UDN clinical site operations by leveraging a virtual platform for genetic services delivery
      $150,000
      award amount
    • 3U01HG007709-08S2Department: NIH department code
      Pilot of New Technologies to Increase the Genomic Diagnosis of Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) Patients
      $149,922
      award amount

  14. Nelson, David Loren

    Leads 1 award · $1,279,282

    • 5P50HD103555-02Department: NIH department code
      Baylor College of Medicine Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
      $1,279,282
      award amount

  15. Arenkiel, Benjamin R

    Leads 3 awards · $1,206,604

    • 5R01DK109934-06Department: NIH department code
      Genetically Dissecting Chorinergic Signaling in Body Weight Control
      $455,354
      award amount
    • 3R01DK109934-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Mapping and Manipulating Cholingeric Basal Forebrain Activity in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
      $401,250
      award amount
    • 5R01NS078294-08Department: NIH department code
      MAPPING CONNECTIVITY ONTO POSTNATAL-BORN NEURONS
      $350,000
      award amount

  16. Yamamoto, Shinya

    Leads 1 award · $1,203,750

    • 1RF1AG071557-01Department: NIH department code
      UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF TM2D FAMILY GENES IN NOTCH SIGNALING AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
      $1,203,750
      award amount

  17. Al-Ramahi, Ismael

    Leads 1 award · $1,201,822

    • 1R01AG074009-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the impact of sex differences on Alzheimer's disease risk
      $1,201,822
      award amount

  18. Herman, Christophe

    Leads 1 award · $1,120,000

    • 5DP1AI152073-03Department: NIH department code
      A Synthetic Platform for Non-Antibiotic Eradication of Bacterial Infections
      $1,120,000
      award amount

  19. Lee, Brendan

    Leads 1 award · $1,089,071

    • 1OT2OD031932-01Department: NIH department code
      ALL OF US EVENINGS WITH GENETICS RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAM
      $1,089,071
      award amount

  20. Botas, Juan

    Leads 2 awards · $994,786

    • 5R01AG057339-05Department: NIH department code
      Functional Dissection of Alzheimer's Disease Networks in Drosophila: from Association to Causal Modulators of Age-Dependent Neurodegeration
      $858,120
      award amount
    • 3R01AG057339-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Functional Dissection of Alzheimer's Disease Networks in Drosophila: from Association to Causal Modulators of Age-Dependent Neurodegeration
      $136,666
      award amount

  21. Eng, Christine

    Leads 1 award · $951,000

    • 5U01HG007942-08Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Sequencing Core Facility for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)
      $951,000
      award amount

  22. Lieberman-Aiden, Erez

    Leads 1 award · $947,579

    • 3UM1HG009375-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensive linking of DNA Elements in high-priority ENCODE Biosamples to their promoter targets
      $947,579
      award amount

  23. Nakada, Daisuke

    Leads 2 awards · $926,701

    • 1R01CA255813-01A1Department: NIH department code
      THE ROLE OF SELENOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS PATHWAY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
      $464,800
      award amount
    • 5R01CA193235-07Department: NIH department code
      METABOLIC REGULATION IN LEUKEMIA-INITIATING CELLS
      $461,901
      award amount

  24. Chen, Rui

    Leads 2 awards · $824,621

    • 5R01EY022356-09Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Basis of Human Visual System Disorders
      $479,501
      award amount
    • 5R01EY018571-13Department: NIH department code
      Genetics of Early Onset Retinal Diseases
      $345,120
      award amount

  25. Shaulsky, Gad

    Leads 1 award · $780,206

    • 1T32GM139534-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetics & Genomics Training Program
      $780,206
      award amount

  26. Brooks, Brian Patrick

    Leads 1 award · $769,911

    • 1U01EY032403-01Department: NIH department code
      Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia, and Coloboma Genetic Epidemiology in Children (MAGIC) Study
      $769,911
      award amount

  27. Lupski, James R.

    Leads 1 award · $715,165

    • 5R35NS105078-04Department: NIH department code
      STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
      $715,165
      award amount

  28. Ira, Grzegorz A

    Leads 2 awards · $687,000

    • 2R01GM080600-14Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISM AND REGULATION OF DNA RECOMBINATION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE
      $370,000
      award amount
    • 5R01GM125650-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Initial Steps of Chromosomal Breaks Repair
      $317,000
      award amount

  29. Dickinson, Mary E

    Leads 1 award · $685,005

    • 5U42OD026645-04Department: NIH department code
      BCM-Rice resource for the analysis of somatic gene editing in mice
      $685,005
      award amount

  30. Miller, Kyle M

    Leads 1 award · $662,153

    • 5R01CA250905-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Endogenous DNA Damage Promotion
      $662,153
      award amount

  31. Cao, Wei

    Leads 1 award · $661,306

    • 1R01AG074283-01Department: NIH department code
      Antiviral response coupled with transposon derepression in Alzheimer’s disease and aging
      $661,306
      award amount

  32. Bonnen, Penelope E

    Leads 1 award · $659,162

    • 2R01NS083726-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Personalized Functional Genomics for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy Gene Discovery
      $659,162
      award amount

  33. Milosavljevic, Aleksandar

    Leads 1 award · $605,261

    • 3OT2OD030547-01S1Department: NIH department code
      GENOMIC INDEXING OF COMMON FUND DATASETS
      $605,261
      award amount

  34. Scott, Daryl Armstrong

    Leads 2 awards · $569,982

    • 5R01HD098458-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Abnormal Diaphragm and Cardiac Development
      $448,377
      award amount
    • 3R01HD098458-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Abnormal Diaphragm and Cardiac Development
      $121,605
      award amount

  35. Zhang, Sheng

    Leads 1 award · $558,425

    • 5R01AG057509-05Department: NIH department code
      Convergence of tauopathy and Huntington's disease through selective autophagy
      $558,425
      award amount

  36. Kaipparettu, Benny Abraham

    Leads 1 award · $534,690

    • 5R01CA234479-03Department: NIH department code
      Energy reprogramming-regulated oncopathways and drug resistance in triple negative breast cancer
      $534,690
      award amount

  37. Stankiewicz, Pawel

    Leads 1 award · $494,398

    • 5R01HD087292-05Department: NIH department code
      Unrecognized scale and clinical relevance of somatic mosaicism
      $494,398
      award amount

  38. Liu, Pengfei

    Leads 1 award · $480,000

    • 1R35HG011311-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing disease-causing variants using personal genomes with large recurrent deletions
      $480,000
      award amount

  39. Zhang, Lilei

    Leads 1 award · $474,695

    • 5R01HL143067-03Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional regulation of cardiac pathological remodeling by REV-ERBα
      $474,695
      award amount

  40. Wangler, Michael Francis

    Leads 1 award · $473,814

    • 1R01NS107733-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuronal Mechanisms of Metabolic and Genetic Defects of the Peroxisome
      $473,814
      award amount

  41. Darabi, Radbod

    Leads 1 award · $462,589

    • 5R01AR076770-02Department: NIH department code
      REGULATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE BY PROTEIN O-GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE 1 (POGLUT1)
      $462,589
      award amount

  42. Burrage, Lindsay C

    Leads 1 award · $461,022

    • 1R01DK126786-01Department: NIH department code
      DISSECTING THE LINK BETWEEN UREAGENESIS AND HEPATIC GLYCOGEN METABOLISM
      $461,022
      award amount

  43. Elsea, Sarah H.

    Leads 1 award · $452,729

    • 5R01CA211176-05Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical Analyses of NAD Kinase as a Redox Vulnerability for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
      $452,729
      award amount

  44. Park, Dongsu

    Leads 1 award · $402,825

    • 5R01AR072018-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining periosteal skeletal stem cells and novel migration mechanisms in bone regeneration and repair in vivo
      $402,825
      award amount

  45. Cheng, Chonghui

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM131876-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of alternative splicing during epithelial-mesenchymal transition
      $400,000
      award amount

  46. Jafar-Nejad, Hamed

    Leads 1 award · $396,252

    • 5R35GM130317-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of developmental signaling pathways by glycosylation and deglycosylation
      $396,252
      award amount

  47. Hastings, Philip John

    Leads 1 award · $369,698

    • 5R01GM106373-07Department: NIH department code
      MUTATIONAL SIGNATURE(S) OF HUMAN GENOMIC REARRANGEMENT MECHANISMS
      $369,698
      award amount

  48. Westbrook, Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $362,569

    • 5R01CA215452-05Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and targeting oncogenic Myc enhancer control in pediatric tumors
      $362,569
      award amount

  49. Bates, David

    Leads 1 award · $320,000

    • 5R01GM135368-02Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics and regulation of sister chromosome cohesion in E. coli
      $320,000
      award amount

  50. Yun, Jihye

    Leads 1 award · $251,400

    • 1R21CA258134-01Department: NIH department code
      Impact of sugary drinks on gut microbiota and development of young-onset colorectal cancer
      $251,400
      award amount

  51. Tran, Nicholas Minh Abell

    Leads 1 award · $249,001

    • 4R00EY029360-03Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of type-dependent retinal ganglion cell resilience: potential targets for neuroprotection and axon regeneration
      $249,001
      award amount

  52. Li, Hongjie

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AG062746-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing age-related decline of neural circuits by single-cell profiling
      $249,000
      award amount

  53. Zhang, Bing

    Leads 1 award · $204,000

    • 5R01CA245903-02Department: NIH department code
      Proteogenomics-driven therapeutic discovery in hepatocellular carcinoma
      $204,000
      award amount

  54. Grigorenko, Elena L

    Leads 1 award · $199,887

    • 3P20HD091005-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Supplement: Severe LD in Juvenile Delinquents: Presentation, Course, and Remediation
      $199,887
      award amount

  55. Robak, Laurie A

    Leads 1 award · $188,005

    • 5K08NS112467-03Department: NIH department code
      Parkinson's disease susceptibility in carriers of lysosomal storage disorder genes
      $188,005
      award amount

  56. Atkinson, Elizabeth Grace

    Leads 1 award · $174,383

    • 7K01MH121659-03Department: NIH department code
      A framework enabling the genomic analysis of psychiatric traits across admixed populations.
      $174,383
      award amount

  57. Posey, Jennifer Ellen

    Leads 1 award · $166,235

    • 5K08HG008986-05Department: NIH department code
      Individual genomic analyses to discover the molecular basis and mechanisms contributing to adult-onset disease
      $166,235
      award amount

  58. Rogers, Jeffrey A

    Leads 1 award · $150,000

    • 3U24EY029904-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Novel model systems for the study of cone disorders and other heritable retinal diseases
      $150,000
      award amount

  59. Moss, Elizabeth Hanson

    Leads 1 award · $128,469

    • 1K99DC019505-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of basal forebrain control over sensory processing
      $128,469
      award amount

  60. Johnson, Jennifer Leigh

    Leads 1 award · $68,562

    • 5F32AG064814-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying targets that lower APP as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease
      $68,562
      award amount

  61. Achilly, Nathan

    Leads 1 award · $40,731

    • 5F30HD097871-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of MeCP2 in the cerebellum and the therapeutic potential of extended training in Rett syndrome
      $40,731
      award amount

  62. Butts, Jessica Christine

    Leads 1 award · $39,995

    • 5F32NS117723-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the molecular basis of Atoh1 lineage diversity in the developing hindbrain
      $39,995
      award amount

  63. Coffin, Stephanie Lynn

    Leads 1 award · $39,705

    • 5F31NS115296-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain region specific contribution of the ATXN1/CIC interaction to Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1
      $39,705
      award amount

  64. Bajikar, Sameer

    Leads 1 award · $35,229

    • 3F32HD100048-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of Growth-differentiation factor 11 in neurodevelopmental and MECP2-related disorders
      $35,229
      award amount