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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

Durham, NC

Funding
$30.1M
$30,095,173
Awards
66
FY2024 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
58
39 lead a grant here, 19 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 80 · 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the Duke University page.

Leads a grant in this department

39 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. Charles A. Gersbach

    Leads 2 awards · $2,437,289

    • 5UM1HG012053-04Department: NIH department code
      High-Throughput Functional Annotation of Gene Regulatory Elements and Variants Critical to Complex Cellular Phenotypes

      Principal investigators: Charles A. Gersbach (contact PI), Gregory E Crawford, Timothy E Reddy

      $1,880,578
      award amount
    • 1R01CA289574-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Programming of T Cells for Enhanced Cellular Immunotherapy
      $556,711
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM144291-03, led by Tatiana Segura.

  2. Michael R Tadross

    Leads 3 awards · $2,317,124

    • 1R01MH135932-01Department: NIH department code
      DART.3-Revolutionizing Neuropsychiatric Treatment through Noninvasive, Programmable Cell-Type-Specific Neuropharmacology
      $1,656,252
      award amount
    • 5R33DA051530-05Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating the cholinergic basis of opioid use disorder
      $575,200
      award amount
    • 3R33DA051530-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating the cholinergic basis of opioid use disorder
      $85,672
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R34DA059512-01, led by Timothy William Dunn.

  3. Tatiana Segura

    Leads 4 awards · $2,079,359

    • 5R01AI152568-05Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Adaptive Immune Responses from Hydrogel Scaffolds to Promote Tissue Regeneration

      Principal investigators: Tatiana Segura (contact PI), Joel H Collier

      $626,523
      award amount
    • 5T32GM144291-03Department: NIH department code
      University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

      Principal investigators: Tatiana Segura (contact PI), Charles A. Gersbach

      $549,359
      award amount
    • 5R01NS112940-05Department: NIH department code
      Biomaterials to promote synapse formation after stroke
      $485,635
      award amount
    • 5R01NS079691-10Department: NIH department code
      VEGF ligand presentation and therapeutic angiogenesis
      $417,842
      award amount

  4. Nenad Bursac

    Leads 4 awards · $2,032,756

    • 5R01HL164013-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Human Heart Tissues with Polyploid Cardiomyocytes
      $536,797
      award amount
    • 1R01AR083155-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Heterocellular Human Skeletal Muscle Tissues to Recreate and Study Native Stem Cell Niche Function
      $526,174
      award amount
    • 5R01AR082979-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a Human Skeletal Muscle Tissue Model of LGMD2B
      $501,861
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032726-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineered BacNav and BacCav for Improved Excitability and Contraction
      $467,924
      award amount

  5. Ashutosh Chilkoti

    Leads 3 awards · $1,591,818

    • 5R01AI150888-05Department: NIH department code
      A Fully Integrated Point-of-Care Test for Ebola
      $590,199
      award amount
    • 5R01CA248491-05Department: NIH department code
      Point-of-care cellular and molecular pathology of breast tumors on a cell phone

      Principal investigators: Ashutosh Chilkoti (contact PI), E. Shelley Hwang

      $560,028
      award amount
    • 5R01DK124276-04Department: NIH department code
      Injectable PEG-like Conjugate for Sustained Delivery of a Peptide Drug for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
      $441,591
      award amount

  6. Timothy William Dunn

    Leads 3 awards · $1,325,855

    • 5R01NS123275-03Department: NIH department code
      Building and implementing a TBI prognostic model featuring real-time analysis of brain CT images
      $584,488
      award amount
    • 1R34DA059506-01Department: NIH department code
      High-resolution 3D tracking of social behaviors for deep phenotypic analysis

      Principal investigators: Timothy William Dunn (contact PI), Bence P Olveczky

      $378,727
      award amount
    • 1R34DA059512-01Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput, high-resolution 3D measurement of ethologically relevant rodent behavior in a dynamic environment

      Principal investigators: Timothy William Dunn (contact PI), Gregory Darin Field, Michael R Tadross

      $362,640
      award amount

  7. Cameron McIntyre

    Leads 3 awards · $1,278,297

    • 5R01MH102238-09Department: NIH department code
      Pathway-Specific Targeting in Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression
      $510,092
      award amount
    • 5R01NS119520-04Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical Characterization of Subthalamic Local Field Potentials in Parkinson's Disease
      $444,336
      award amount
    • 5R37NS116079-04Department: NIH department code
      Application of Advanced Imaging and Visualization to Clinical Deep Brain Stimulation
      $323,869
      award amount

  8. Jonathan Viventi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,232,382

    • 5U01NS123668-04Department: NIH department code
      Neuro-CROWN:Optimized Ultra-Flexible CMOS Electrode Arrays for 3D, Low-Noise Neural Interfaces

      Principal investigators: Jonathan Viventi (contact PI), Hui Fang

      $625,150
      award amount
    • 5R01DC019498-04Department: NIH department code
      A Wireless micro-ECoG Prosthesis for Speech

      Principal investigators: Jonathan Viventi (contact PI), Florian Solzbacher, Kenneth L Shepard

      $607,232
      award amount

  9. Marc A Sommer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,207,381

    • 5R01NS125843-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancement, mapping, and validation of viral vectors for primate optogenetics
      $616,819
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117405-05Department: NIH department code
      Biology and Biophysics of the Cortical Response to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

      Principal investigators: Marc A Sommer (contact PI), Angel V Peterchev

      $590,562
      award amount

  10. Nirmala Ramanujam

    Leads 2 awards · $1,151,748

    • 2R01EB028148-05A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of CapCell Scope for Metabolic Imaging of Tissue Heterogeneity and Therapy Response

      Principal investigators: Nirmala Ramanujam (contact PI), Andrei Goga

      $608,401
      award amount
    • 5U01CA269192-03Department: NIH department code
      Development and Validation of an Artificial-Intelligence-enabled Portable Colposcopy Device for Optimizing Triage Alternatives for HPV-based Cervical Cancer Screening

      Principal investigators: Nirmala Ramanujam (contact PI), Francesca Akoth Odhiambo, Megan J. Huchko

      $543,347
      award amount

  11. Amanda E Randles

    Leads 1 award · $1,127,000

    • 5DP1AG082343-03Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic models of the cardiovascular system capturing years, rather than heartbeats
      $1,127,000
      award amount

  12. Lingchong You

    Leads 3 awards · $1,090,441

    • 5R01AI125604-06Department: NIH department code
      Tradeoffs between fitness costs and transfer rates in horizontal gene transfer
      $437,251
      award amount
    • 5R01EB031869-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeted control of self-transmissible plasmids by using engineered interfering plasmids
      $350,785
      award amount
    • 5R01GM098642-11Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary dynamics of combinational antimicrobial treatments
      $302,405
      award amount

  13. Joel H Collier

    Leads 2 awards · $1,005,628

    • 5R01AI172151-03Department: NIH department code
      Supramolecular biomaterials for tuning the inflammatory properties of the complement system
      $549,485
      award amount
    • 5R01AI167300-04Department: NIH department code
      Sublingual Supramolecular Vaccines and Immunotherapies
      $456,143
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AI152568-05, led by Tatiana Segura.

  14. Mikhail Nikiforov

    Leads 2 awards · $965,704

    • 5R01AR082911-02Department: NIH department code
      Bidirectional control of keratinocyte differentiation and proliferation by transcription factor FOXQ1
      $485,781
      award amount
    • 5R01CA279129-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of regulation and subcellular localization of GTP biosynthesis in melanoma invasion and metastasis
      $479,923
      award amount

  15. Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale

    Leads 2 awards · $727,113

    • 5R01EB033064-03Department: NIH department code
      3D Shearwave Elasticity Biomarker Development for Neuromuscular Disease
      $527,801
      award amount
    • 3R01EB033064-03S1Department: NIH department code
      3D Shearwave Elasticity Biomarker Development for Neuromuscular Disease
      $199,312
      award amount

  16. Sina Farsiu

    Leads 1 award · $719,160

    • 2R01EY030124-05Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative assessment of glaucomatous conventional outflow dynamics

      Principal investigators: Sina Farsiu (contact PI), C Ross Ethier, W Daniel Stamer

      $719,160
      award amount

  17. Adam Wax

    Leads 2 awards · $671,416

    • 5R01AG072732-03Department: NIH department code
      Retinal Light Scattering Measurements as a Clinical Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease
      $491,598
      award amount
    • 3R18EB035004-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Point of care diagnostic for sickle cell disease
      $179,818
      award amount

  18. George A Truskey

    Leads 1 award · $665,769

    • 5R01HL138252-07Department: NIH department code
      In Vitro Human Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Disease Model of Progeria
      $665,769
      award amount

  19. Sharon Gerecht

    Leads 1 award · $664,948

    • 1R01EY035853-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering three-dimensional perfusable microphysiological models of the human inner blood-retina barrier
      $664,948
      award amount

  20. Junjie Yao

    Leads 2 awards · $630,869

    • 1R01DK139109-01Department: NIH department code
      3D real-time super-resolution cavitation mapping in laser lithotripsy of urinary stone disease

      Principal investigators: Junjie Yao (contact PI), Michael E Lipkin, Pei Zhong

      $593,407
      award amount
    • 3R01DK139109-01S1Department: NIH department code
      3D real-time super-resolution cavitation mapping in laser lithotripsy of urinary stone disease

      Principal investigators: Junjie Yao (contact PI), Michael E Lipkin, Pei Zhong

      $37,462
      award amount

  21. Jessilyn P Dunn

    Leads 1 award · $624,103

    • 5R01DK133531-02Department: NIH department code
      Mobile technologies to screen for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic adults
      $624,103
      award amount

  22. Tuan Vo-Dinh

    Leads 1 award · $581,549

    • 5R01DE030455-03Department: NIH department code
      RAPID System for Early Detection of Head and Neck Cancer in Low-Resource Settings

      Principal investigators: Tuan Vo-Dinh (contact PI), Walter Tsong Lee

      $581,549
      award amount

  23. Daniel Reker

    Leads 2 awards · $515,041

    • 5R35GM151255-02Department: NIH department code
      Designing Personalized Formulations with Machine Learning
      $322,000
      award amount
    • 5R21EB034443-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational Design of Antibody-Drug-Excipient Nanoparticles
      $193,041
      award amount

  24. Pengfei Song

    Leads 1 award · $514,210

    • 7R01EB031040-04Department: NIH department code
      A novel transducer clip-on device to enable accessible and functional 3D ultrasound imaging
      $514,210
      award amount

  25. Warren M. Grill

    Leads 1 award · $489,172

    • 5R01NS126376-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimized Electrical Block of Peripheral Nerves
      $489,172
      award amount

  26. Gregg E. Trahey

    Leads 1 award · $468,184

    • 5R01EB017711-11Department: NIH department code
      Coherence-Based Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging
      $468,184
      award amount

  27. Fan Yuan

    Leads 1 award · $402,500

    • 5R35GM145362-03Department: NIH department code
      Chemically Assisted Electrotransfer of DNA
      $402,500
      award amount

  28. Pranam Chatterjee

    Leads 1 award · $402,500

    • 1R35GM155282-01Department: NIH department code
      Towards the Design of Programmable, Isoform-Selective Proteome Editing System
      $402,500
      award amount

  29. Philip Anthony Romero

    Leads 1 award · $354,480

    • 7R01GM150929-03Department: NIH department code
      Self-driving laboratories for autonomous exploration of protein sequence space
      $354,480
      award amount

  30. Aaron Matthew Kyle

    Leads 1 award · $259,267

    • 5R25GM142072-05Department: NIH department code
      Hk Maker Lab 2.0: Inspiring Engineering Design Thinking in Grades 6 - 12 Students and Teacher
      $259,267
      award amount

  31. Al-Hafeez Zahir Dhalla

    Leads 1 award · $193,168

  32. Aaron Blanchard

    Leads 1 award · $96,143

    • 5K00CA245789-05Department: NIH department code
      The mechanical role of the glycocalyx in cancer cell adhesion
      $96,143
      award amount

  33. Enakshi D. Sunassee

    Leads 2 awards · $43,283

    • 5F99CA284283-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding metabolic and vascular vulnerabilities of residual disease in triple negative breast cancer to inform on treatment strategies
      $41,783
      award amount
    • 3F99CA284283-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding metabolic and vascular vulnerabilities of residual disease in triple negative breast cancer to inform on treatment strategies
      $1,500
      award amount

  34. Kevin Shores

    Leads 1 award · $42,132

    • 1F31HL172589-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Effects of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Mutation Correction in Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels
      $42,132
      award amount

  35. Jahrane Antonio Dale

    Leads 1 award · $41,775

    • 5F31NS130997-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Evoked Potentials of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
      $41,775
      award amount

  36. Andra Marija Rudzite

    Leads 1 award · $41,766

    • 1F31EY036716-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting inhibitory mechanisms and their contribution to information processing in retinal ganglion cells.
      $41,766
      award amount

  37. Hala Galal El-Nahal

    Leads 1 award · $41,436

    • 5F31MH129122-03Department: NIH department code
      Circuit-Specific Interrogation of the Primate Claustrum
      $41,436
      award amount

  38. Amit Narawane

    Leads 1 award · $41,373

    • 1F31EY035168-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Robotic and handheld OCT imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy
      $41,373
      award amount

  39. Cameron Michael Kim

    Leads 1 award · $21,034

    • 1R25EB035497-01Department: NIH department code
      From Biotech to Benchside: Team-Based Undergraduate Experiences in Design Thinking and Learning
      $21,034
      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.