Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Ke Cheng

   Leads 4 awards · $2,794,224

   • 5R01HL144002-08Department: NIH department code

     Harnessing Platelet-Endothelial Interactions for Exosome Delivery
     $735,942

     award amount
   • 5R01HL170612-03Department: NIH department code

     Inhalable stem cell exosome therapy for cardiac injury
     $702,665

     award amount
   • 5R01HL179818-02Department: NIH department code

     Sorting high extracellular vesicle secretors for optimal cell therapy

     Principal investigators: Ke Cheng (contact PI), Dino Di Carlo

     $693,857

     award amount
   • 5R01HL146153-08Department: NIH department code

     Developing Long Noncoding RNA Therapy for Precision Cardiac Repair
     $661,760

     award amount

2. Tal Danino

   Leads 2 awards · $1,245,300

   • 1R01CA313939-01Department: NIH department code

     Advancing ProCAR therapy toward clinical application

     Principal investigators: Tal Danino (contact PI), Nicholas Arpaia

     $635,722

     award amount
   • 5R01EB034302-04Department: NIH department code

     Programmable encapsulation systems to improve delivery of therapeutic bacteria

     Principal investigators: Tal Danino (contact PI), Kam W Leong, Nicholas Arpaia

     $609,578

     award amount

3. Santiago Correa

   Leads 2 awards · $1,029,342

   • 1DP2AI207712-01Department: NIH department code

     Harnessing the Immunotherapeutic Potential of Probiotic Extracellular Vesicles
     $754,366

     award amount
   • 5R21EB034818-02Department: NIH department code

     Lymph node inspired hydrogels for immune cell reprogramming
     $274,976

     award amount

4. Grace McIlvain

   Leads 2 awards · $881,376

   • 1R21HD122301-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Design and Implementation of an MR Elastography-Based Framework for Measuring Brain Mechanical Properties in Infants
     $442,560

     award amount
   • 1R21MH143119-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Magnetic Resonance Elastography as a Quantitative and Task-Independent Biomarker for Brain Structure-Function Relationships in Adults and Children

     Principal investigators: Grace McIlvain (contact PI), Nim Tottenham

     $438,816

     award amount

5. Dashuai Zhu

   Leads 2 awards · $809,933

   • 5R01HL164998-05Department: NIH department code

     Inhalation Delivery of Exosome and microRNA Therapy for Lung Fibrosis
     $406,091

     award amount
   • 5R01HL181161-02Department: NIH department code

     Pericardial mRNA therapy for myocardial infarction
     $403,842

     award amount

6. Jose Luis McFaline-Figueroa

   Leads 1 award · $702,132

   • 1R01CA304906-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Multiplex single-cell chemical genomics to identify small molecule modulators of tumor cell-intrinsic immunogenicity in glioblastoma
     $702,132

     award amount

7. Qi Wang

   Leads 1 award · $470,737

   • 5R01AG075114-05Department: NIH department code

     The effects of long-term locus coeruleus stimulation on amyloid/tau pathology, synaptic plasticity, and memory during Alzheimer's disease progression
     $470,737

     award amount

8. Nandan L Nerurkar

   Leads 1 award · $452,375

   • 1R21HD122403-01Department: NIH department code

     Discovering regulators of tissue mechanics driving vertebrate morphogenesis
     $452,375

     award amount

9. Elham Azizi

   Leads 1 award · $416,974

   • 5R01HG012875-04Department: NIH department code

     Machine learning methods for interpreting spatial multi-omics data
     $416,974

     award amount

10. Treena Lynne Arinzeh

    Leads 1 award · $343,063

    • 5R01AR077056-06Department: NIH department code

      A Novel Glycosaminoglycan Mimetic Scaffold for Cartilage Repair
      $343,063

      award amount

11. Lance C Kam

    Leads 1 award · $200,897

    • 5R21AI185699-02Department: NIH department code

      High Speed Mapping of Mechanical Properties of Tissues
      $200,897

      award amount

12. X. Edward Guo

    Leads 1 award · $165,832

    • 5T32AR080744-04Department: NIH department code

      Integrated Musculoskeletal Training Program

      Principal investigators: X. Edward Guo (contact PI), Nadeen O. Chahine

      $165,832

      award amount

13. Na Yan

    Leads 1 award · $132,300

    • 1K99EB039764-01Department: NIH department code

      Engineering Living Microbial Platforms for Precision Therapy
      $132,300

      award amount

14. Mengrui Liu

    Leads 1 award · $128,228

    • 5K99CA304506-02Department: NIH department code

      Inhalable Extracellular Vesicles Engineering for Lung Cancer Treatment
      $128,228

      award amount

15. Robert Hincapie

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32EB036927-02Department: NIH department code

      Integrating biomaterials and genomic tools for glycan-based programming of immune cells
      $76,780

      award amount

16. Andrew Dylan Countryman

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HD118793-02Department: NIH department code

      Using genetics and optogenetics to dissect how Rho signaling is coordinated at distinct subcellular domains to drive epithelial tissue morphogenesis
      $50,114

      award amount

17. Erika Kusaka

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31HD121390-01Department: NIH department code

      Molecular and mechanical mechanisms coordinating cell rearrangements in 3D during epithelial morphogenesis
      $50,114

      award amount

18. Hannah F Hu

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31EY037576-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Autologous transplantation of genetically modified induced pluripotent stem cells for rescue of autosomal dominant retinal disorders
      $50,114

      award amount

19. Jenny Gao

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31DK146713-01Department: NIH department code

      Elastic energy storage and viscous dissipation driving buckling morphogenesis of the small intestine
      $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.

• Nicholas Arpaia

  Co-investigator on 1R01CA313939-01, led by Tal Danino; 5R01EB034302-04, led by Tal Danino

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Columbia University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Dino Di Carlo

  Co-investigator on 5R01HL179818-02, led by Ke Cheng

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of California, Los Angeles · Biomedical Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Kam W Leong

  Co-investigator on 5R01EB034302-04, led by Tal Danino

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

• Nim Tottenham

  Co-investigator on 1R21MH143119-01A1, led by Grace McIlvain

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Columbia University · Psychology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Nadeen O. Chahine

  Co-investigator on 5T32AR080744-04, led by X. Edward Guo

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Columbia University · Orthopedics (NIH department code, 1 award)