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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Other Basic Sciences at Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Funding
$15.6M
$15,644,485
Awards
32
FY2026 NIH awards in Other Basic Sciences
Principal investigators
33
27 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 Other Basic Sciences row of the Cornell University page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 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. Azahara Oliva Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $2,955,467

    • 4R01MH140009-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural dynamics underlying brain state-dependent memory functions
      $2,955,467
      award amount

  2. Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,519,694

    • 4DP2MH136496-02Department: NIH department code
      How do animals learn the structure of their natural environment?
      $984,000
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136355-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and functions of temporal coordination in the entorhinal-hippocampal network
      $535,694
      award amount

  3. Paula Elaine Cohen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,280,517

    • 1R01HD119206-01A1Department: NIH department code
      MutS Gamma as a driver of crossover pathway choice in prophase I of mammalian meiosis
      $667,092
      award amount
    • 5R01HD041012-23Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of MutL-gamma function in mediating crossing over in mammalian meiosis
      $583,425
      award amount
    • 2R13HD102144-06Department: NIH department code
      The Tri-State Symposium on Reproductive Health

      Principal investigators: Paula Elaine Cohen (contact PI), Karen A Schindler, Kyle Edwin Orwig, Marisa S. Bartolomei

      $30,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HD095296-08, led by Robert S Weiss.

  4. Richard A. Cerione

    Leads 2 awards · $914,571

    • 5R35GM152206-03Department: NIH department code
      Studies of Global Signal Transduction
      $542,048
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034867-04Department: NIH department code
      Probing the molecular mechanisms that regulate key steps in the GPCR-sensory response pathway responsible for vision in dim light
      $372,523
      award amount

  5. Natasza A Kurpios

    Leads 1 award · $764,502

    • 2R01DK092776-13A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms underlying form and function of the contractile gut lymphatics
      $764,502
      award amount

  6. Robert S Weiss

    Leads 1 award · $673,850

    • 5R01HD095296-08Department: NIH department code
      Coordination of Atr Signaling for Genetic Quality Control, Silencing, and DNA Repair during Meiosis

      Principal investigators: Robert S Weiss (contact PI), Marcus Smolka, Paula Elaine Cohen

      $673,850
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA259195-05, led by Marc A Antonyak.

  7. Andrew C White

    Leads 1 award · $571,611

    • 1R01AR086869-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the regenerative response to genotoxic agents in spiny mouse skin
      $571,611
      award amount

  8. Toshimitsu Kawate

    Leads 2 awards · $563,616

    • 1R35GM161255-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the structure and function of understudied membrane proteins
      $375,154
      award amount
    • 5R21NS142832-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Molecular Function of the Tweety Homologue Membrane Protein Family
      $188,462
      award amount

  9. Gunther Hollopeter

    Leads 1 award · $545,410

    • 5R35GM156633-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms connecting endocytic and junctional complexes with epithelial pathology in C. elegans
      $545,410
      award amount

  10. Jesse Heymann Goldberg

    Leads 1 award · $470,569

    • 5R01NS138093-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Miss- and Touch-Guided Sensorimotor Corrections
      $470,569
      award amount

  11. Michael J Sheehan

    Leads 1 award · $458,871

    • 1R21AG093628-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Aging: The Impact of Social and Environmental Realism

      Principal investigators: Michael J Sheehan (contact PI), Wanding Zhou

      $458,871
      award amount

  12. Margaret Frank

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 5R35GM160552-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing our understanding of intercellular communication to achieve programmable regeneration
      $431,750
      award amount

  13. Arunika Das

    Leads 1 award · $425,552

    • 1R35GM165881-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Centromere Inheritance
      $425,552
      award amount

  14. Jongmin Kim

    Leads 1 award · $424,158

    • 1R35GM165297-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Kumgang/Mi-2 complex for transcriptional fidelity
      $424,158
      award amount

  15. Marc A Antonyak

    Leads 1 award · $417,445

    • 5R01CA259195-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic regulation of exosome biogenesis as a determinant of cancer cell metastasis.

      Principal investigators: Marc A Antonyak (contact PI), Claudia Fischbach, Robert S Weiss

      $417,445
      award amount

  16. Carolyn Elizabeth Adler

    Leads 1 award · $415,686

    • 1R35GM163946-01Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and molecular mechanisms governing stem cell resilience
      $415,686
      award amount

  17. Nilay Yapici

    Leads 1 award · $400,020

    • 5R35GM133698-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Neural Mechanisms Regulating Foraging and Food Intake
      $400,020
      award amount

  18. Benjamin Alexander Sandkam

    Leads 1 award · $399,551

    • 5R35GM155164-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of Y chromosomes in generating and maintaining intrasexual diversity
      $399,551
      award amount

  19. Carolyn S Sevier

    Leads 1 award · $383,540

    • 5R35GM152166-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of cellular redox signaling
      $383,540
      award amount

  20. Lori B Huberman

    Leads 1 award · $383,194

    • 5R35GM150926-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic mechanisms of signal integration in the nutrient sensing network
      $383,194
      award amount

  21. Richa Sardana

    Leads 1 award · $375,716

    • 5R35GM150863-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of membrane protein homeostasis at the Golgi
      $375,716
      award amount

  22. John C Schimenti

    Leads 1 award · $345,677

    • 5R01HD107910-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms underlying sex-dependent pregnancy outcomes caused by fetal and maternal genomic instability
      $345,677
      award amount

  23. Teresa E Pawlowska

    Leads 1 award · $219,852

    • 1R21AI193973-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling bacterial endosymbiont accommodation program in early-divergent mucoromycete fungi
      $219,852
      award amount

  24. Wenbo Tang

    Leads 1 award · $131,118

    • 1K99MH142690-01Department: NIH department code
      Intrinsic hippocampal circuit dynamics underlying episodic memory
      $131,118
      award amount

  25. Laura Brunengraber Goodman

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 5U18FD006716-08Department: NIH department code
      Genomic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in animals
      $90,000
      award amount

  26. Riley Daniel Thoen

    Leads 1 award · $75,880

    • 1F32GM167201-01Department: NIH department code
      Demographic and evolutionary drivers and consequences of genetic load
      $75,880
      award amount

  27. Kieran Louise Koch-Laskowski

    Leads 1 award · $6,668

    • 5F30OD031914-06Department: NIH department code
      MicroRNA-375 regulation of enteroendocrine cell biology in diet-induced obesity and bariatric surgery
      $6,668
      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.