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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Funding
$16M
$15,991,092
Awards
35
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
36
30 lead a grant here, 6 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 Cornell University page.

Leads a grant in this department

30 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. Chris B Schaffer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,881,240

    • 5R01AG081931-04Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic and neural activity normalization by cerebral blood flow increase in AD/ADRD models
      $1,098,132
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128947-03Department: NIH department code
      High-Speed Imaging of Cortical and White Matter Microvascular Flow in AD/ADRD Models

      Principal investigators: Chris B Schaffer (contact PI), Chris Xu, Costantino Iadecola

      $783,108
      award amount

  2. David Carl Erickson

    Leads 3 awards · $1,877,077

  3. Nitika Pai

    Leads 1 award · $1,310,819

    • 5U54EB034654-04Department: NIH department code
      Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer for Global Health (PORTENT)

      Principal investigators: David Carl Erickson (contact PI), Nitika Pai (contact PI), Saurabh Mehta (contact PI)

      $1,310,819
      award amount

  4. Saurabh Mehta

    Leads 1 award · $1,310,819

    • 5U54EB034654-04Department: NIH department code
      Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer for Global Health (PORTENT)

      Principal investigators: David Carl Erickson (contact PI), Nitika Pai (contact PI), Saurabh Mehta (contact PI)

      $1,310,819
      award amount

  5. Jonathan Talbot Butcher

    Leads 2 awards · $1,149,744

    • 1R01HL188999-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanobiological Regulation of Ventricular Maturation
      $734,475
      award amount
    • 1R25GM167129-01Department: NIH department code
      Transforming Biomedical Engineering via Studio Learning Pedagogy
      $415,269
      award amount

  6. Shaoyi Jiang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,090,860

    • 5R01AI178125-03Department: NIH department code
      Immunogenicity of lipid nanoparticles
      $695,106
      award amount
    • 5R01AI193334-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Lipid Nanoparticles for Effective Endosomal Escape
      $395,754
      award amount

  7. Esak Lee

    Leads 2 awards · $838,659

    • 5R01HL165135-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Junction and Drainage
      $440,762
      award amount
    • 5R01CA279560-04Department: NIH department code
      Tissue-Engineered Models of Lymphatic Drainage in Breast Cancer
      $397,897
      award amount

  8. Christopher Akinleye Alabi

    Leads 2 awards · $767,518

    • 5R01AI174461-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of Targeted Antipseudomonal Bactericidal Prodrugs
      $446,412
      award amount
    • 5R01GM155900-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing PepTAC structure and amphiphilicity for enhanced target protein degradation
      $321,106
      award amount

  9. Chris Xu

    Leads 1 award · $686,023

    • 1U01NS147943-01Department: NIH department code
      Non-Invasive Cellular-Resolution Deep Imaging of Brain Structure and Function
      $686,023
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS128947-03, led by Chris B Schaffer.

  10. Benjamin David Cosgrove

    Leads 1 award · $672,554

    • 5R01AR081449-03Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the non-coding RNA landscape in skeletal muscle health and disease

      Principal investigators: Benjamin David Cosgrove (contact PI), Iwijn De Vlaminck

      $672,554
      award amount

  11. Nelly Andarawis-Puri

    Leads 1 award · $582,366

    • 5R01AR084173-03Department: NIH department code
      Promoting a reparative instead of a degenerative outcome from loading of fatigue-damaged tendons
      $582,366
      award amount

  12. Claudia Fischbach

    Leads 1 award · $560,949

    • 5R01CA276392-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanical properties of adipose tissue and its effect on breast cancer

      Principal investigators: Claudia Fischbach (contact PI), Corey O'Hern

      $560,949
      award amount

  13. Chun-Hay Alex Kwan

    Leads 1 award · $555,527

    • 5R01MH128217-05Department: NIH department code
      Cellular basis of psilocybin actions in frontal cortex
      $555,527
      award amount

  14. Minseok Lee

    Leads 1 award · $500,067

    • 5R01DK143077-02Department: NIH department code
      An immunomodulatory and vascularized cell delivery device for type 1 diabetes cell therapy
      $500,067
      award amount

  15. Sijin Li

    Leads 1 award · $463,781

    • 5R01AT012633-03Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic biology to discover kratom natural product biosynthetic pathways for biased analgesic development
      $463,781
      award amount

  16. Matthew J Paszek

    Leads 1 award · $441,603

    • 5R01CA276398-04Department: NIH department code
      Physical Resistance to Immune Cell Attack by the Cellular Glycocalyx
      $441,603
      award amount

  17. Ilana Lauren Brito

    Leads 1 award · $437,344

    • 1R35GM164334-01Department: NIH department code
      Dispatches from the microbiome: Membrane vesicles as mediators of bacterial-bacterial and bacterial-human cell communication
      $437,344
      award amount

  18. Marjolein C Van Der Meulen

    Leads 1 award · $400,585

    • 5R01AR081943-04Department: NIH department code
      Modulating PTOA development with parathyroid hormone
      $400,585
      award amount

  19. Nate Cira

    Leads 1 award · $399,988

    • 5R35GM157104-02Department: NIH department code
      Establishing culture conditions for uncultured microbes
      $399,988
      award amount

  20. Lois Pollack

    Leads 1 award · $394,975

    • 5R35GM122514-10Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Dynamic Structures of Nucleic Acids
      $394,975
      award amount

  21. Karl J Lewis

    Leads 1 award · $390,956

    • 1R01AR087805-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Modulation of Osteocyte Wnt Signaling Using Peptide-Functionalized Nanoparticles
      $390,956
      award amount

  22. Andrea Giometto

    Leads 1 award · $382,192

    • 5R35GM147493-05Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary dynamics of dense, spatially structured, and antagonistic microbial populations
      $382,192
      award amount

  23. Mingming Wu

    Leads 1 award · $368,968

    • 5R01CA221346-09Department: NIH department code
      Microfluidic platform for solid tumor mechanics and invasion
      $368,968
      award amount

  24. Jian-Xun Wang

    Leads 1 award · $328,388

    • 5R01HL177814-03Department: NIH department code
      SCH: Efficient Image-based Hemodynamic Modeling via Physics-integrated Bayesian Deep Learning
      $328,388
      award amount

  25. Warren R Zipfel

    Leads 1 award · $323,211

    • 5R01GM145934-04Department: NIH department code
      Femto-seq: Targeted photo-biotinylation, pulldown and sequencing of locus and region-specific DNA from femtoliter volumes within individual cells
      $323,211
      award amount

  26. Tetsuhiro Harimoto

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00CA300498-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Living Materials as Programmable Therapeutic Implants for Pancreatic Cancer
      $249,000
      award amount

  27. Ekaterina Selivanovitch

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32AI183691-03Department: NIH department code
      Designing addressable proteoliposomes by using viral transmembrane proteins and biomimetic cell-free synthesis techniques.
      $81,580
      award amount

  28. Olesia M Bilash

    Leads 1 award · $78,040

    • 5F32DA062467-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of psilocybin action in the frontal cortex
      $78,040
      award amount

  29. Cory Knox

    Leads 1 award · $46,594

    • 1F31EY038625-01Department: NIH department code
      The inhibitory mechanism underlying psychedelic disruption of visual processing
      $46,594
      award amount

  30. Alexandra Werth

    Leads 1 award · $41,303

    • 1R25EB038216-01Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Biomedical Engineering Design Education through Community-Based Clinical Immersion and Online Learning Modules
      $41,303
      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.