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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at Boston University

Boston, MA

Funding
$23.8M
$23,766,621
Awards
62
FY2024 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
58
36 lead a grant here, 22 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Engineering row of the Boston University page.

Leads a grant in this department

36 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. Ji-Xin Cheng

    Leads 6 awards · $2,863,789

    • 5R01AI141439-06Department: NIH department code
      Rapid AST through Metabolic Imaging at Single Cell Level
      $621,858
      award amount
    • 5R35GM136223-05Department: NIH department code
      Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging to Unveil Hidden Signatures in Living Systems
      $577,500
      award amount
    • 1R01EB035429-01Department: NIH department code
      Super-sensitive vibrational imaging by synergic development of instruments and probes

      Principal investigators: Ji-Xin Cheng (contact PI), Daniela Buccella, Wei Min

      $556,300
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032391-03Department: NIH department code
      High-content High-speed Chemical Imaging of Metabolic Reprogramming by Integration of Advanced Instrumentation and Data Science
      $494,768
      award amount
    • 1R33CA287046-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Bio-orthogonal Mid-Infrared Photothermal Imaging of Cancer Metabolism
      $407,113
      award amount
    • 5R21EY034275-03Department: NIH department code
      Sub-millimeter precision wireless neuromodulation using a microwave split ring resonator
      $206,250
      award amount

  2. Ahmad Samir Khalil

    Leads 3 awards · $2,410,737

    • 5R01AI171100-03Department: NIH department code
      Programmable benchtop bioreactors for scalable eco-evolutionary dynamics of the human microbiome

      Principal investigators: Ahmad Samir Khalil (contact PI), Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

      $823,196
      award amount
    • 5R01EB027793-06Department: NIH department code
      ePACE: automation platforms for adaptable and scalable continuous evolution of biomolecules with therapeutic potential

      Principal investigators: Ahmad Samir Khalil (contact PI), David R Liu

      $804,366
      award amount
    • 2R01EB029483-05Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic circuit technologies for precision control and signal processing in mammalian cells
      $783,175
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EB033821-02, led by Christopher S Chen.

  3. Wilson Wong

    Leads 4 awards · $2,162,224

    • 5R01DK132576-03Department: NIH department code
      Precise targeting of T1D specific T cells using CAR and peptide-MHC chimeric antigen ligands

      Principal investigators: Wilson Wong (contact PI), Curtis Lisante Cetrulo, Michael Birnbaum, Sally Choate Kent

      $769,703
      award amount
    • 5U01CA265713-04Department: NIH department code
      Precise tumor targeting with logic CAR circuits

      Principal investigators: Wilson Wong (contact PI), Mark W. Grinstaff, Yolonda L Colson

      $525,026
      award amount
    • 1R01EB036085-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering recombinase circuits for cellular diagnostic devices
      $478,544
      award amount
    • 5R01EB031904-04Department: NIH department code
      Multiplexed and Logical Control of the Mammalian Transcriptome Using Cas13
      $388,951
      award amount

  4. David A Boas

    Leads 3 awards · $1,786,190

    • 5U01EB029856-05Department: NIH department code
      The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function

      Principal investigators: David A Boas (contact PI), Swathi Kiran

      $980,087
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127156-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurophotonic Advances for Mechanistic Investigation of the Role of Capillary Dysfunction in Stroke Recovery
      $638,725
      award amount
    • 1T32NS136080-01Department: NIH department code
      Graduate Training at the Interface of Neuroscience, Optical Engineering and Data Science

      Principal investigators: David A Boas (contact PI), Jerry L Chen, Michelle Yen-Ling Sander

      $167,378
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5UG3EB034710-02, led by Xiaojun Cheng.

  5. Timothy Mark O'Shea

    Leads 4 awards · $1,312,376

    • 1R21NS136831-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Studying astrocyte borders using injectable biomaterials
      $446,126
      award amount
    • 1R35GM154942-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulating parenchymal repair in wound healing
      $412,500
      award amount
    • 1R21NS133525-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Nanotherapeutics for Targeted Glial Cell Drug Delivery
      $247,500
      award amount
    • 5R21NS128821-02Department: NIH department code
      Intravital Imaging of Transplant Evoked Glia Repair in Stroke
      $206,250
      award amount

  6. Yanhang Katherine Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,309,286

    • 5R01AG075876-03Department: NIH department code
      Cerebrovascular Remodeling and Neurodegenerative Changes in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Yanhang Katherine Zhang (contact PI), Joseph Zaia, Thor Stein

      $789,855
      award amount
    • 5R01HL098028-11Department: NIH department code
      Multi-Scale Integration of Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in Vascular Remodeling
      $519,431
      award amount

  7. Xue Han

    Leads 3 awards · $1,232,389

    • 5R01MH122971-05Department: NIH department code
      Multidimensional Optimization of Voltage Indicators for In Vivo Neural Activity Imaging
      $664,469
      award amount
    • 5R01NS115797-05Department: NIH department code
      Voltage Imaging Analysis of Striatal Network Dynamics Related to Movement, Parkinson's Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation
      $478,131
      award amount
    • 3R01NS115797-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Voltage Imaging Analysis of Striatal Network Dynamics Related to Movement, Parkinson's Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation
      $89,789
      award amount

  8. Elise F Morgan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,226,345

    • 5R01AG073671-03Department: NIH department code
      Tailoring of cellular mechanical microenvironments to rescue age-related impairments in bone regeneration
      $703,034
      award amount
    • 5R01AR054620-15Department: NIH department code
      3-D Visualization and Prediction of Vertebral Fractures
      $523,311
      award amount

  9. Michael B Albro

    Leads 2 awards · $1,193,754

    • 5R01AR078299-03Department: NIH department code
      A Bio-inspired Latent TGF-beta Conjugated Scaffold for Patient-specific Cartilage Regeneration
      $608,459
      award amount
    • 5R01AR081393-03Department: NIH department code
      Arthroscopic Raman Monitoring of Cartilage Content for PTOA Diagnosis and Chondroregenerative Treatment Response

      Principal investigators: Michael B Albro (contact PI), Brian D Snyder, Mads Sylvest Bergholt

      $585,295
      award amount

  10. Sandor Vajda

    Leads 2 awards · $824,872

    • 5R35GM118078-09Department: NIH department code
      Analysis and Prediction of Molecular Interactions
      $576,150
      award amount
    • 3R35GM118078-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Analysis and Prediction of Molecular Interactions
      $248,722
      award amount

  11. Chen Yang

    Leads 2 awards · $796,218

    • 1R21EY036579-01Department: NIH department code
      Injectable Optoacoustic Retina Prostheses
      $588,568
      award amount
    • 5R21EY035437-02Department: NIH department code
      Massively Parallel Optoacoustic Retinal Stimulation at Micrometer-Resolution
      $207,650
      award amount

  12. James E Galagan

    Leads 1 award · $642,683

    • 5R01EB029795-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel Biosensors based on Mining Bacterial Transcription Factors

      Principal investigators: James E Galagan (contact PI), Catherine M. Klapperich

      $642,683
      award amount

  13. Irving J. Bigio

    Leads 1 award · $559,055

    • 5R01AG075727-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization and validation of quantitative birefringence microscopy for assessment of myelin pathologies associated with cognitive impairments and motor deficits in young and old aging monkey brain
      $559,055
      award amount

  14. Daniel Segre

    Leads 2 awards · $549,459

  15. John A. White

    Leads 1 award · $549,359

    • 5T32GM145455-03Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Quantitative Biology & Physiology (QBP)
      $549,359
      award amount

  16. Christopher S Chen

    Leads 1 award · $531,435

  17. Brianne Kathryn Connizzo

    Leads 1 award · $412,500

    • 5R35GM151127-02Department: NIH department code
      Innate and Hormone-Mediated Sex Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling
      $412,500
      award amount

  18. Sheila Russo

    Leads 3 awards · $408,992

    • 5R01EB034286-02Department: NIH department code
      Extending Reach, Accuracy, and Therapeutic Capabilities: A Soft Robot for Peripheral Early-Stage Lung Cancer
      $297,000
      award amount
    • 3R01EB034286-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Extending Reach, Accuracy, and Therapeutic Capabilities: A Soft Robot for Peripheral Early-Stage Lung Cancer
      $89,593
      award amount
    • 3R01EB034286-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Extending Reach, Accuracy, and Therapeutic Capabilities: A Soft Robot for Peripheral Early-Stage Lung Cancer
      $22,399
      award amount

  19. Michael Nicholas Economo

    Leads 1 award · $400,126

    • 5R01NS121409-03Department: NIH department code
      Linking Motor Cortex Activity and Movement in the Mouse Orofacial System
      $400,126
      award amount

  20. Lei Tian

    Leads 1 award · $400,125

    • 5R01NS126596-03Department: NIH department code
      Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice
      $400,125
      award amount

  21. Jerome Mertz

    Leads 1 award · $388,501

    • 5R01NS116139-05Department: NIH department code
      Multi-Layer Neuronal Imaging with Reverberation Multiphoton Microscopy
      $388,501
      award amount

  22. Anna Devor

    Leads 1 award · $370,026

    • 5R01DA050159-05Department: NIH department code
      Effects of intrinsic and drug-induced neuromodulation on functional brain imaging
      $370,026
      award amount

  23. Xiaojun Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $364,842

    • 5UG3EB034710-02Department: NIH department code
      A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy

      Principal investigators: Xiaojun Cheng (contact PI), David A Boas

      $364,842
      award amount

  24. Liangliang Hao

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA237861-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing multiplexed microenvironmental sensors for precision diagnostics of cancer metastasis
      $249,000
      award amount

  25. Matthias Stangl

    Leads 1 award · $241,421

    • 4R00NS126715-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Representations Beyond the Self
      $241,421
      award amount

  26. Maria Victoria Moya

    Leads 2 awards · $132,615

    • 1K99NS139312-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Molecular Determinants of Cell Type-Specific Connectivity
      $126,414
      award amount
    • 5F32MH129149-03Department: NIH department code
      A Scalable Method for Mapping Microconnectivity in Transcriptomically Distinct Neuron Types
      $6,201
      award amount

  27. Aria Pearlman Morales

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 1F30HL176145-01Department: NIH department code
      A Bio-orthogonal Targeting System for Precision Drug Delivery to Vascular Endothelium in Transplanted Organs
      $53,974
      award amount

  28. Eric Bressler

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30CA257566-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Surgical Drug Delivery System for Enhancement of CAR T Cell Activity
      $53,974
      award amount

  29. Linzheng Shi

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30HL168952-02Department: NIH department code
      Probing immunovascular mechanobiology in pneumonia-associated acute lung injury at the single capillary level
      $53,974
      award amount

  30. Sarah C Adams

    Leads 1 award · $41,423

    • 1F31CA288157-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Tunable Protein Release Hydrogel for the Enhancement of CAR T cell Activity
      $41,423
      award amount

  31. Daniel David Carbonero

    Leads 1 award · $41,317

    • 5F31MH133306-02Department: NIH department code
      Machine Learning for Analyzing State Dependent Neuronal Network Dynamics
      $41,317
      award amount

  32. Brandon David Williams

    Leads 1 award · $41,059

    • 5F31NS134309-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Neural Synchrony in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
      $41,059
      award amount

  33. Eric Dubois

    Leads 1 award · $40,886

    • 1F31NS135944-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Glycopolymer Biomaterials for Regulating Adaptive Reprogramming in Glia
      $40,886
      award amount

  34. Arun Kannoth Nambiar

    Leads 1 award · $40,671

    • 1F31CA295073-01Department: NIH department code
      Development and characterization of self-amplifying RNA Lipid Nanoparticles for potent and multiplex gene expression in solid tumors
      $40,671
      award amount

  35. Patrick Doran

    Leads 1 award · $40,593

    • 5F31NS118949-03Department: NIH department code
      Simultaneous Optical Voltage Imaging and fMRI in Behaving Mice
      $40,593
      award amount

  36. Cristina Tous

    Leads 1 award · $40,431

    • 5F31GM149163-02Department: NIH department code
      Multiplexed Optogenetic Control of Mammalian Genome and Transcriptome using Recombinases and Cas13
      $40,431
      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.