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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at Columbia University

New York, NY

Funding
$6.5M
$6,521,311
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
13
9 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#19
of 69 · Ranking
  • 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 Ophthalmology row of the Columbia University page.

Leads a grant in this department

9 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. Xin Zhang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,518,340

    • 5P30EY019007-15Department: NIH department code
      Core Facilities for Vision Research
      $808,380
      award amount
    • 5R01EY018868-16Department: NIH department code
      Integrating biomechanical and biochemical signaling in lacrimal gland development
      $505,660
      award amount
    • 5R21EY037007-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of SSBP1 Mutation on Vision
      $204,300
      award amount

  2. Stephen H Tsang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,341,320

    • 5R01EY033770-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing cone survival in retinitis pigmentosa through cell-specific therapeutic CRISPR editing of a roxadustat target

      Principal investigators: Stephen H Tsang (contact PI), James Bryant Hurley

      $529,818
      award amount
    • 5R01EY018213-18Department: NIH department code
      Defining Barriers to Gene Therapy
      $405,751
      award amount
    • 5R01EY024698-12Department: NIH department code
      Gene Editing and Silencing in Phototransduction
      $405,751
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R61EY038305-01, led by Tingting Yang.

  3. Tingting Yang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,151,950

    • 1R61EY038305-01Department: NIH department code
      Small molecule drugs for early-onset vitelliform macular dystrophy

      Principal investigators: Tingting Yang (contact PI), Bingchen Yu, Stephen H Tsang

      $740,700
      award amount
    • 5R35GM149252-04Department: NIH department code
      Interacting Partners of Bestrophin Channels
      $411,250
      award amount

  4. Konstantin Petrukhin

    Leads 1 award · $617,264

  5. Rando L Allikmets

    Leads 1 award · $592,800

    • 5R01EY036061-03Department: NIH department code
      Stargardt/ABCA4 disease in African Americans
      $592,800
      award amount

  6. Revathi Balasubramanian

    Leads 1 award · $532,079

    • 1R01EY037799-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Models and mechanisms of early-onset glaucoma types
      $532,079
      award amount

  7. Chenqi Tao

    Leads 1 award · $411,250

    • 5R01EY034451-04Department: NIH department code
      Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in astrocyte migration and angiogenesis
      $411,250
      award amount

  8. Emmanouil Tsamis

    Leads 1 award · $248,632

    • 5R00EY032182-05Department: NIH department code
      Development, validation and assessment of an automated, topographic structure-function approach to the detection of glaucoma and its progression
      $248,632
      award amount

  9. Winston Lee

    Leads 1 award · $107,676

    • 5K99EY036930-02Department: NIH department code
      Structured quantification of inherited macular disease phenotypes as the basis for automated algorithms to determine causal genes
      $107,676
      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.