Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine

Leads a grant in this department

45 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. Brendan Lee

   Leads 6 awards · $6,031,025

   • 4UC2AR082200-02Department: NIH department code

     Neuronal anatomy, connectivity, and phenotypic innervation of the knee joint

     Principal investigators: Brendan Lee (contact PI), Benjamin R Arenkiel, Joshua D. Wythe, Russell S Ray

     $2,460,714

     award amount
   • 3UC2AR082200-02S1Department: NIH department code

     Increasing the Efficiency of RE-JOIN Through Data Sharing and Integration

     Principal investigators: Brendan Lee (contact PI), Benjamin R Arenkiel, Joshua D. Wythe, Russell S Ray

     $842,580

     award amount
   • 5U01NS134348-11Department: NIH department code

     UDN Diagnostic Center of Excellence at Baylor College of Medicine

     Principal investigators: Brendan Lee (contact PI), Carlos A. Bacino, Jill Anne Rosenfeld Mokry

     $794,101

     award amount
   • 5R01HG013428-02Department: NIH department code

     MAGNET: MAKING GENOMICS ACCESSIBLE FOR NEWBORNS IN TEXAS

     Principal investigators: Brendan Lee (contact PI), Seema R Lalani, Stacey Pereira

     $705,600

     award amount
   • 5T32GM007526-48Department: NIH department code

     Medical Genetics Research Fellowship Program
     $652,030

     award amount
   • 5R01DE031162-05Department: NIH department code

     WNT1 Function in Stem Cells in Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Craniofacial-Skeletal Tissues

     Principal investigators: Brendan Lee (contact PI), Dongsu Park

     $576,000

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 5R01DE031288-04, led by Dongsu Park; 5R01AR081904-03, led by Yangjin Bae.

2. Richard A Gibbs

   Leads 3 awards · $5,991,045

   • 5UM1DA058229-03Department: NIH department code

     Comprehensive Somatic Variant Characterization at the HGSC

     Principal investigators: Richard A Gibbs (contact PI), Chenghang Zong, Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni

     $3,000,000

     award amount
   • 5U01HG011758-05Department: NIH department code

     Baylor College of Medicine - Mendelian Genomics Research Center (BCM-MGRC)

     Principal investigators: Richard A Gibbs (contact PI), James R. Lupski, Jennifer Ellen Posey

     $2,291,045

     award amount
   • 3OT2OD038122-01S1Department: NIH department code

     All of Us at the Baylor-Hopkins Clinical Genome Center

     Principal investigators: Richard A Gibbs (contact PI), Eric A. Boerwinkle, Kimberly F Doheny

     $700,000

     award amount

3. Jason D. Heaney

   Leads 1 award · $2,303,000

   • 5UM1HG006348-14Department: NIH department code

     The BCM Knockout Mouse Production and Phenotyping Project (BCM KOMP2)

     Principal investigators: Jason D. Heaney (contact PI), Chih-Wei Logan Hsu, Denise Grant Lanza

     $2,303,000

     award amount

4. Hugo J Bellen

   Leads 3 awards · $2,192,110

   • 5R01HG011795-05Department: NIH department code

     Genomic medicine and gene function implementation for an underserved population

     Principal investigators: Hugo J Bellen (contact PI), Michael Francis Wangler

     $942,969

     award amount
   • 2R24OD031447-05Department: NIH department code

     A Comprehensive Resource for Manipulating and Characterizing the Drosophila Genome

     Principal investigators: Hugo J Bellen (contact PI), Oguz Kanca

     $801,879

     award amount
   • 5R01AG073260-05Department: NIH department code

     IMPACTS OF GLIAL LIPID DROPLETS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND NEURODEGENERATION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
     $447,262

     award amount

5. Hui Zheng

   Leads 4 awards · $2,133,369

   • 5R01AG088197-02Department: NIH department code

     The Role of the Complement Pathway in Alzheimer's Disease
     $765,279

     award amount
   • 4R01AG020670-22Department: NIH department code

     Knockin mouse models of Alzheimer's Disease
     $764,341

     award amount
   • 5R01NS093652-08Department: NIH department code

     ROLE OF TFEB IN TAUOPATHY
     $498,954

     award amount
   • 3P01AG066606-05S1Department: NIH department code

     Lysosome Regulation and Signaling in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
     $104,795

     award amount

6. Aleksandar Milosavljevic

   Leads 1 award · $2,013,196

   • 1OT2OD038054-01Department: NIH department code

     Multimodal AI for Precise Clinical and Genetic Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease

     Principal investigators: Aleksandar Milosavljevic (contact PI), Lilei Zhang, Shaine Alaine Morris, Vikram Baruah

     $2,013,196

     award amount

7. Olivier Lichtarge

   Leads 2 awards · $1,961,783

   • 5R01AG074009-05Department: NIH department code

     Decoding the impact of sex differences on Alzheimer's disease risk

     Principal investigators: Olivier Lichtarge (contact PI), Ismael Al-Ramahi

     $1,177,785

     award amount
   • 5U01AG068214-05Department: NIH department code

     Cognitive Computing of Alzheimer's Disease Genes and Risk
     $783,998

     award amount

8. Graham Scott Erwin

   Leads 2 awards · $1,689,000

   • 1DP2HD121549-01Department: NIH department code

     New classes of small, cell permeable genome regulators to expand the age of genomic medicine
     $1,440,000

     award amount
   • 5R00HG011467-04Department: NIH department code

     Development and application of new tools to identify repeat expansions in human diseases
     $249,000

     award amount

9. Lilei Zhang

   Leads 2 awards · $1,398,090

   • 5R01HL175964-02Department: NIH department code

     Broadly applicable high throughput variant interpretation and validation for MYH7

     Principal investigators: Lilei Zhang (contact PI), Jonathan A Kirk, Md. Abul Hassan Samee

     $712,312

     award amount
   • 5R01HL150589-04Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering the role of a circadian lncRNA in cardiac remodeling
     $685,778

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 1OT2OD038054-01, led by Aleksandar Milosavljevic.

10. Gad Shaulsky

    Leads 2 awards · $1,284,721

    • 5T32GM139534-05Department: NIH department code

      Genetics & Genomics Training Program
      $852,721

      award amount
    • 5R35GM152113-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanistic analysis of a pathway that integrates allorecognition and altruism in Dictyostelium
      $432,000

      award amount

11. Daisuke Nakada

    Leads 2 awards · $1,046,946

    • 5R01HL165145-04Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms that regulate erythroid differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells
      $582,146

      award amount
    • 5R01CA255813-05Department: NIH department code

      THE ROLE OF SELENOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS PATHWAY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
      $464,800

      award amount

12. Chonghui Cheng

    Leads 2 awards · $907,821

    • 5R01CA276432-03Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of tumor cell clustering in breast cancer metastasis
      $462,861

      award amount
    • 5R35GM131876-07Department: NIH department code

      Regulation and consequences of cryptic splicing
      $444,960

      award amount

13. James R. Lupski

    Leads 1 award · $859,649

    • 5R35NS105078-08Department: NIH department code

      STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
      $859,649

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01HG011758-05, led by Richard A Gibbs.

14. Grzegorz A Ira

    Leads 2 awards · $846,208

    • 1R35GM158251-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanism and Regulation of DNA Recombination
      $516,608

      award amount
    • 5R01GM125650-08Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of Initial Steps of Chromosomal Breaks Repair
      $329,600

      award amount

15. Weiwei Dang

    Leads 2 awards · $814,130

    • 5R01AG074540-03Department: NIH department code

      Lysosomal NADPH metabolism regulates proteostasis, aging and tauopathy
      $484,850

      award amount
    • 5R01AG081347-03Department: NIH department code

      Molecular mechanisms of cellular response to age-associated chromatin changes
      $329,280

      award amount

16. Elizabeth Grace Atkinson

    Leads 1 award · $783,657

    • 5R01HG012869-03Department: NIH department code

      Empowering gene discovery and accelerating clinical translation for admixed populations
      $783,657

      award amount

17. Pawel Stankiewicz

    Leads 1 award · $765,352

    • 5R01HL165301-03Department: NIH department code

      Etiology and pathogenesis of lethal lung developmental disorders in neonates
      $765,352

      award amount

18. Nicholas Minh Abell Tran

    Leads 1 award · $720,944

    • 5R01EY036111-02Department: NIH department code

      Activity-related mechanisms of selective retinal ganglion cell resilience and axon regeneration
      $720,944

      award amount

19. Dongsu Park

    Leads 1 award · $662,355

    • 5R01DE031288-04Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of Skeletal progenitor cells in Osteogenesis Imperfecta

      Principal investigators: Dongsu Park (contact PI), Brendan Lee

      $662,355

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DE031162-05, led by Brendan Lee.

20. Shinya Yamamoto

    Leads 2 awards · $633,975

    • 5R01AG071557-03Department: NIH department code

      UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF TM2D FAMILY GENES IN NOTCH SIGNALING AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
      $393,225

      award amount
    • 1R21OD038417-01Department: NIH department code

      MOLECULAR AND GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF EMS-INDUCED LETHAL MUTATIONS IN DROSOPHILA ENRICHED FOR ORTHOLOGS OF HUMAN DISEASE-CAUSING GENES
      $240,750

      award amount

21. Benjamin R Arenkiel

    Leads 1 award · $631,026

    • 2R01DK109934-10Department: NIH department code

      Genetically Dissecting Cholinergic Signaling in Body Weight Control

      Principal investigators: Benjamin R Arenkiel (contact PI), Qingchun Tong

      $631,026

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4UC2AR082200-02, led by Brendan Lee; 3UC2AR082200-02S1, led by Brendan Lee.

22. Yangjin Bae

    Leads 1 award · $607,076

    • 5R01AR081904-03Department: NIH department code

      Targeting TGFb In Osteogenesis Imperfecta

      Principal investigators: Yangjin Bae (contact PI), Brendan Lee

      $607,076

      award amount

23. Penelope E Bonnen

    Leads 1 award · $593,246

    • 5R01NS083726-10Department: NIH department code

      Personalized Functional Genomics for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy Gene Discovery
      $593,246

      award amount

24. Florent Elefteriou

    Leads 2 awards · $588,511

    • 5R01AR082536-02Department: NIH department code

      TonEBP/Nfat5, vesicular trafficking and intervertebral disc maintenance
      $430,111

      award amount
    • 5R21AR083029-02Department: NIH department code

      Characterizing the cell-of-origin for NF1 dystrophic scoliosis
      $158,400

      award amount

25. Fritz J Sedlazeck

    Leads 1 award · $503,562

    • 4UH3NS132105-03Department: NIH department code

      Identification of somatic/ mosaic SV and transposon activity and their crosstalk to DNA epigenetic Modifications

      Principal investigators: Fritz J Sedlazeck (contact PI), Tao Wu

      $503,562

      award amount

26. Seema R Lalani

    Leads 1 award · $465,000

    • 5UH3TR004047-04Department: NIH department code

      Expanding Access to Genetic Evaluation Through Virtual Platforms
      $465,000

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HG013428-02, led by Brendan Lee.

27. Lindsay C Burrage

    Leads 1 award · $463,829

    • 5R01DK126786-05Department: NIH department code

      DISSECTING THE LINK BETWEEN UREAGENESIS AND HEPATIC GLYCOGEN METABOLISM
      $463,829

      award amount

28. Hamed Jafar-Nejad

    Leads 1 award · $432,000

    • 5R35GM130317-07Department: NIH department code

      Roles of Glycosylation and Deglycosylation During Animal Development
      $432,000

      award amount

29. Pengfei Liu

    Leads 1 award · $428,851

    • 5R35HG011311-05Department: NIH department code

      Characterizing disease-causing variants using personal genomes with large recurrent deletions
      $428,851

      award amount

30. Michael Francis Wangler

    Leads 1 award · $426,433

    • 5R01NS107733-05Department: NIH department code

      Neuronal Mechanisms of Metabolic and Genetic Defects of the Peroxisome
      $426,433

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HG011795-05, led by Hugo J Bellen.

31. Bing Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $398,398

    • 1U01CA299401-01Department: NIH department code

      Advancing Protein Isoform Analysis through an Integrated Computational Framework.

      Principal investigators: Bing Zhang (contact PI), Yongchao Dou

      $398,398

      award amount

32. Kim C Worley

    Leads 1 award · $352,000

    • 2U24EY032451-04Department: NIH department code

      Integrative Curation of Clinically Relevant Variants in X-Linked Inherited Retinal Disease Genes
      $352,000

      award amount

33. Debra Dianne Murray

    Leads 1 award · $350,000

    • 3OT2OD031932-01S4Department: NIH department code

      ALL OF US EVENINGS WITH GENETICS RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAM
      $350,000

      award amount

34. Jiyoen Kim

    Leads 1 award · $280,875

    • 5R21AG088501-02Department: NIH department code

      In vivo Screening Methods Targeting Levels of Tau Protein within Mouse Brains
      $280,875

      award amount

35. Vishnu Dileep

    Leads 1 award · $244,019

    • 5R00AG073466-04Department: NIH department code

      Impact of DNA double-strand breaks on 3D genome organization and genome stability in Alzheimer's disease
      $244,019

      award amount

36. Ronit Marom

    Leads 1 award · $134,041

    • 5K08HD108381-03Department: NIH department code

      ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF COATOMER COMPLEX COPI IN SKELETAL DYSPLASIA
      $134,041

      award amount

37. Rebecca Meyer Schuman

    Leads 1 award · $78,040

    • 5F32HD116501-02Department: NIH department code

      Defining critical MECP2 cis-regulatory elements towards identifying genetic candidates for male-biased autism
      $78,040

      award amount

38. Joshua Brenner

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32NS142584-01Department: NIH department code

      Exploring the role of hippocampal hypervascularization in Rett syndrome pathogenesis
      $75,520

      award amount

39. Chloe Alexis Munderloh

    Leads 1 award · $50,338

    • 1F31DE034597-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the molecular etiology of Keratinocyte Differentiation Factor 1 (KDF1) in disease phenotypes of the ectoderm.
      $50,338

      award amount

40. Christiana Wang

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS145565-01Department: NIH department code

      Deciphering SPTAN1-associated disease mechanisms and potential therapy in patient-derived cell lines
      $49,538

      award amount

41. Grace Tietz

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31HL176183-01A1Department: NIH department code

      An Ancestry-Informed Approach to Improve Genetic Testing for Cardiovascular Disease
      $49,538

      award amount

42. Jonathan Tiessen

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31HL164097-03Department: NIH department code

      Acetate as a Mediator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Inflammatory Response and Clonal Hematopoiesis
      $49,538

      award amount

43. Tyler Jackson

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31DK141194-01A1Department: NIH department code

      NOVEL DROSOPHILA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ORTHOLOG OF BCL11A/BCL11B IS CRUCIAL FOR REGULATING INTESTINAL STEM CELL QUIESCENCE AND PREVENTING GUT DYSFUNCTION DURING AGING
      $49,538

      award amount

44. Benjamin Belfort

    Leads 1 award · $48,156

    • 5F30AG076265-03Department: NIH department code

      Uncharted Territory: Mapping and Manipulating Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Activity in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
      $48,156

      award amount

45. Nathalie Marie Aceves

    Leads 1 award · $46,738

    • 1F31HD115407-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Understanding the Role of NAD Deficiency in a Mendelian Disorder of Tryptophan Metabolism
      $46,738

      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.

• Joshua D. Wythe

  Co-investigator on 4UC2AR082200-02, led by Brendan Lee; 3UC2AR082200-02S1, led by Brendan Lee

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Virginia · Anatomy & Cell Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Russell S Ray

  Co-investigator on 4UC2AR082200-02, led by Brendan Lee; 3UC2AR082200-02S1, led by Brendan Lee

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Chenghang Zong

  Co-investigator on 5UM1DA058229-03, led by Richard A Gibbs

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine · Genetics (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni

  Co-investigator on 5UM1DA058229-03, led by Richard A Gibbs

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

• Chih-Wei Logan Hsu

  Co-investigator on 5UM1HG006348-14, led by Jason D. Heaney

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

• Denise Grant Lanza

  Co-investigator on 5UM1HG006348-14, led by Jason D. Heaney

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine (no department on record, 2 awards)

• Jennifer Ellen Posey

  Co-investigator on 5U01HG011758-05, led by Richard A Gibbs

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

• Shaine Alaine Morris

  Co-investigator on 1OT2OD038054-01, led by Aleksandar Milosavljevic

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

• Vikram Baruah

  Co-investigator on 1OT2OD038054-01, led by Aleksandar Milosavljevic

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

• Ismael Al-Ramahi

  Co-investigator on 5R01AG074009-05, led by Olivier Lichtarge

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

• Oguz Kanca

  Co-investigator on 2R24OD031447-05, led by Hugo J Bellen

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

• Carlos A. Bacino

  Co-investigator on 5U01NS134348-11, led by Brendan Lee

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

• Jill Anne Rosenfeld Mokry

  Co-investigator on 5U01NS134348-11, led by Brendan Lee

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

• Jonathan A Kirk

  Co-investigator on 5R01HL175964-02, led by Lilei Zhang

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Loyola University Chicago · Physiology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Md. Abul Hassan Samee

  Co-investigator on 5R01HL175964-02, led by Lilei Zhang

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

• Stacey Pereira

  Co-investigator on 5R01HG013428-02, led by Brendan Lee

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Eric A. Boerwinkle

  Co-investigator on 3OT2OD038122-01S1, led by Richard A Gibbs

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

• Kimberly F Doheny

  Co-investigator on 3OT2OD038122-01S1, led by Richard A Gibbs

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

• Qingchun Tong

  Co-investigator on 2R01DK109934-10, led by Benjamin R Arenkiel

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • UT Health Science Center Houston · Genetics (NIH department code, 2 awards)
  • UT Health Science Center Houston · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Tao Wu

  Co-investigator on 4UH3NS132105-03, led by Fritz J Sedlazeck

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

• Yongchao Dou

  Co-investigator on 1U01CA299401-01, led by Bing Zhang

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