FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Dentistry at Columbia University
New York, NY
- 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.
Ricardo Cruz Acuna
Leads 2 awards · $750,449
- 1R01DE036327-01Department: NIH department codeEngineered Model of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia for Biomarker Discovery and Therapeutic Strategies$597,769award amount
- 5K01DK133620-04Department: NIH department codeEngineered Hydrogel Elucidates the Contribution of ECM Stiffness to Barrett's Esophagus Pathogenesis$152,680award amount
Chang Hun Lee
Leads 1 award · $745,663
- 5R01DE035315-02Department: NIH department codeTMJ-on-a-chip for delineating multi-tissue crosstalk in inflammation and pathophysiological mechanical loadings
Principal investigators: Chang Hun Lee (contact PI), Alice H Huang
$745,663award amount
Yiping Han
Leads 1 award · $584,594
- 5R01CA292464-02Department: NIH department codeMicrobial and host biomarkers in colorectal cancer oncogenesis$584,594award amount
Sunil Wadhwa
Leads 2 awards · $520,177
- 5T90DE032123-04Department: NIH department codeDental-Biomedical Engineering Scholars Training (D-BEST) Program
Principal investigators: Sunil Wadhwa (contact PI), Helen H Lu
$406,457award amount - 5R90DE033637-04Department: NIH department codeDental-Biomedical Engineering Scholars Training (D-Best) Program$113,720award amount
Christie Lauren Custodio-Lumsden
Leads 1 award · $471,123
- 1R21DE036066-01Department: NIH department codeAHEAD: 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
$471,123award 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.
Alice H Huang
Co-investigator on 5R01DE035315-02, led by Chang Hun Lee
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Columbia University · Orthopedics (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Vishal Midya
Co-investigator on 1R21DE036066-01, led by Christie Lauren Custodio-Lumsden
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Public Health (NIH department code, 1 award)
Helen H Lu
Co-investigator on 5T90DE032123-04, led by Sunil Wadhwa
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.