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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at Columbia University

New York, NY

Funding
$3.1M
$3,072,006
Awards
7
FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry
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 Dentistry row of the Columbia University 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. Ricardo Cruz Acuna

    Leads 2 awards · $750,449

    • 1R01DE036327-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Model of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia for Biomarker Discovery and Therapeutic Strategies
      $597,769
      award amount
    • 5K01DK133620-04Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Hydrogel Elucidates the Contribution of ECM Stiffness to Barrett's Esophagus Pathogenesis
      $152,680
      award amount
  2. Chang Hun Lee

    Leads 1 award · $745,663

    • 5R01DE035315-02Department: NIH department code
      TMJ-on-a-chip for delineating multi-tissue crosstalk in inflammation and pathophysiological mechanical loadings

      Principal investigators: Chang Hun Lee (contact PI), Alice H Huang

      $745,663
      award amount
  3. Yiping Han

    Leads 1 award · $584,594

    • 5R01CA292464-02Department: NIH department code
      Microbial and host biomarkers in colorectal cancer oncogenesis
      $584,594
      award amount
  4. Sunil Wadhwa

    Leads 2 awards · $520,177

    • 5T90DE032123-04Department: NIH department code
      Dental-Biomedical Engineering Scholars Training (D-BEST) Program

      Principal investigators: Sunil Wadhwa (contact PI), Helen H Lu

      $406,457
      award amount
    • 5R90DE033637-04Department: NIH department code
      Dental-Biomedical Engineering Scholars Training (D-Best) Program
      $113,720
      award amount
  5. Christie Lauren Custodio-Lumsden

    Leads 1 award · $471,123

    • 1R21DE036066-01Department: NIH department code
      AHEAD: Adolescent Health and the EArly-life Dietary Exposome: Developing a Metabolomics-based Index of Healthy Eating to predict children's health trajectories

      Principal investigators: Christie Lauren Custodio-Lumsden (contact PI), Vishal Midya

      $471,123
      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.