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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

Funding
$4.1M
$4,060,081
Awards
7
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
8
5 lead a grant here, 3 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 California Institute of Technology page.

Leads a grant in this department

5 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. Niles A Pierce

    Leads 1 award · $1,979,208

    • 1R01GM165318-01Department: NIH department code
      Hybridization Chain Reaction: In Situ Amplification for Biological Imaging
      $1,979,208
      award amount

  2. Wei Gao

    Leads 3 awards · $1,372,812

    • 5R33DK132666-04Department: NIH department code
      Cutaneous uric acid and metabolite monitoring to improve individual response to pharmaceutical and dietary treatment in patients with gout

      Principal investigators: Wei Gao (contact PI), John D Fitzgerald

      $796,085
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021461-03Department: NIH department code
      Develop a wireless, skin-conformable and dual-sensing wearable system in support of voice and upper airway telehealth care

      Principal investigators: Wei Gao (contact PI), Jianyu Li, Nicole Yee-Key Li-Jessen

      $350,688
      award amount
    • 3R01DC021461-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Develop a wireless, skin-conformable and dual-sensing wearable system in support of voice and upper airway telehealth care

      Principal investigators: Wei Gao (contact PI), Jianyu Li, Nicole Yee-Key Li-Jessen

      $226,039
      award amount

  3. Michael H Dickinson

    Leads 1 award · $408,947

    • 1R01NS150352-01Department: NIH department code
      The neural mechanisms underlying temporal integration
      $408,947
      award amount

  4. Johannes Morstein

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA277358-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Cancer at the Protein-Membrane Interface
      $249,000
      award amount

  5. Breanna McMahon

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31HD122376-01Department: NIH department code
      Tracing the First Asymmetry: How Fertilization Orchestrates Cell Fate Biases in the Early Mammalian Embryo
      $50,114
      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.

  • John D Fitzgerald

    Co-investigator on 5R33DK132666-04, led by Wei Gao

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

  • Jianyu Li

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC021461-03, led by Wei Gao; 3R01DC021461-03S1, led by Wei Gao

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

  • Nicole Yee-Key Li-Jessen

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC021461-03, led by Wei Gao; 3R01DC021461-03S1, led by Wei Gao

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