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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

Durham, NC

Funding
$29.1M
$29,131,022
Awards
55
FY2025 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
56
39 lead a grant here, 17 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 75 · 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. Ophelia Venturelli

    Leads 2 awards · $3,521,306

    • 1R01AI194497-01Department: NIH department code
      Dietary Fiber-Microbiome Interactions: Elucidating Mechanisms to Suppress Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in the Human Gut

      Principal investigators: Ophelia Venturelli (contact PI), Nasia Safdar

      $3,012,181
      award amount
    • 2R35GM124774-06Department: NIH department code
      A multi-scale systems biology framework for understanding and engineering the human gut microbiome
      $509,125
      award amount

  2. Charles A. Gersbach

    Leads 2 awards · $2,460,005

    • 5UM1HG012053-05Department: 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

      $1,880,577
      award amount
    • 5R01CA289574-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Programming of T Cells for Enhanced Cellular Immunotherapy
      $579,428
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM144291-04, led by Tatiana Segura.

  3. Nenad Bursac

    Leads 4 awards · $2,017,777

    • 5R01HL164013-04Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Human Heart Tissues with Polyploid Cardiomyocytes
      $548,968
      award amount
    • 5R01AR083155-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Heterocellular Human Skeletal Muscle Tissues to Recreate and Study Native Stem Cell Niche Function
      $510,389
      award amount
    • 5R01AR082979-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a Human Skeletal Muscle Tissue Model of LGMD2B
      $480,947
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032726-04Department: NIH department code
      Engineered BacNav and BacCav for Improved Excitability and Contraction
      $477,473
      award amount

  4. Joel H Collier

    Leads 2 awards · $1,554,308

    • 4R01AI172151-04Department: NIH department code
      Supramolecular biomaterials for tuning the inflammatory properties of the complement system
      $1,098,970
      award amount
    • 5R01AI167300-05Department: NIH department code
      Sublingual Supramolecular Vaccines and Immunotherapies
      $455,338
      award amount

  5. Cameron McIntyre

    Leads 2 awards · $1,475,749

    • 1R35NS143008-01Department: NIH department code
      Model-Based Analysis of Brain Stimulation and Recording
      $1,042,170
      award amount
    • 5R01MH102238-10Department: NIH department code
      Pathway-Specific Targeting in Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression
      $433,579
      award amount

  6. Michael R Tadross

    Leads 1 award · $1,380,473

    • 5R01MH135932-02Department: NIH department code
      DART.3-Revolutionizing Neuropsychiatric Treatment through Noninvasive, Programmable Cell-Type-Specific Neuropharmacology
      $1,380,473
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R34DA059512-02, led by Timothy William Dunn.

  7. Timothy William Dunn

    Leads 3 awards · $1,313,139

    • 5R01NS123275-04Department: NIH department code
      Building and implementing a TBI prognostic model featuring real-time analysis of brain CT images
      $600,019
      award amount
    • 5R34DA059506-02Department: NIH department code
      High-resolution 3D tracking of social behaviors for deep phenotypic analysis

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

      $362,680
      award amount
    • 5R34DA059512-02Department: 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

      $350,440
      award amount

  8. Nirmala Ramanujam

    Leads 3 awards · $1,153,522

    • 5R01EB028148-06Department: NIH department code
      Development of CapCell Scope for Metabolic Imaging of Tissue Heterogeneity and Therapy Response

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

      $591,384
      award amount
    • 5U01CA269192-04Department: 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

      $519,658
      award amount
    • 3U01CA269192-04S1Department: 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

      $42,480
      award amount

  9. Amanda E Randles

    Leads 1 award · $1,104,460

    • 5DP1AG082343-04Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic models of the cardiovascular system capturing years, rather than heartbeats
      $1,104,460
      award amount

  10. Tatiana Segura

    Leads 2 awards · $1,090,022

    • 2R01NS112940-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Biomaterials Strategies to Promote Functional Recovery After Ischemic Stroke
      $555,572
      award amount
    • 5T32GM144291-04Department: NIH department code
      University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

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

      $534,450
      award amount

  11. Mikhail Nikiforov

    Leads 2 awards · $949,212

    • 5R01CA279129-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of regulation and subcellular localization of GTP biosynthesis in melanoma invasion and metastasis
      $499,833
      award amount
    • 5R01AR082911-03Department: NIH department code
      Bidirectional control of keratinocyte differentiation and proliferation by transcription factor FOXQ1
      $449,379
      award amount

  12. Tuan Vo-Dinh

    Leads 2 awards · $948,628

    • 5R01DE030455-04Department: 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

      $522,073
      award amount
    • 1R21AG089947-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cascade Amplification Biosensor Technology for Detecting MicroRNA Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease
      $426,555
      award amount

  13. Lingchong You

    Leads 2 awards · $739,035

    • 5R01AI125604-07Department: NIH department code
      Tradeoffs between fitness costs and transfer rates in horizontal gene transfer
      $437,251
      award amount
    • 5R01GM098642-12Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary dynamics of combinational antimicrobial treatments
      $301,784
      award amount

  14. George A Truskey

    Leads 1 award · $680,299

    • 5R01HL138252-08Department: NIH department code
      In Vitro Human Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Disease Model of Progeria
      $680,299
      award amount

  15. Jessilyn P Dunn

    Leads 1 award · $632,536

    • 5R01DK133531-03Department: NIH department code
      Mobile technologies to screen for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic adults
      $632,536
      award amount

  16. Marc A Sommer

    Leads 1 award · $623,482

    • 5R01NS125843-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancement, mapping, and validation of viral vectors for primate optogenetics
      $623,482
      award amount

  17. Sharon Gerecht

    Leads 1 award · $602,585

    • 5R01EY035853-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering three-dimensional perfusable microphysiological models of the human inner blood-retina barrier
      $602,585
      award amount

  18. Junjie Yao

    Leads 1 award · $602,441

    • 5R01DK139109-02Department: 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

      $602,441
      award amount

  19. Daniel Reker

    Leads 2 awards · $595,225

    • 5R35GM151255-03Department: NIH department code
      Designing Personalized Formulations with Machine Learning
      $402,500
      award amount
    • 5R21EB034443-03Department: NIH department code
      Computational Design of Antibody-Drug-Excipient Nanoparticles
      $192,725
      award amount

  20. Jonathan Viventi

    Leads 1 award · $591,137

  21. Sina Farsiu

    Leads 1 award · $589,950

    • 5R01EY030124-06Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative assessment of glaucomatous conventional outflow dynamics

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

      $589,950
      award amount

  22. Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale

    Leads 1 award · $538,571

    • 5R01EB033064-04Department: NIH department code
      3D Shearwave Elasticity Biomarker Development for Neuromuscular Disease
      $538,571
      award amount

  23. Pengfei Song

    Leads 1 award · $509,415

    • 5R01EB031040-05Department: NIH department code
      A novel transducer clip-on device to enable accessible and functional 3D ultrasound imaging
      $509,415
      award amount

  24. Warren M. Grill

    Leads 1 award · $493,777

    • 5R01NS126376-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimized Electrical Block of Peripheral Nerves
      $493,777
      award amount

  25. Adam Wax

    Leads 1 award · $481,765

    • 5R01AG072732-04Department: NIH department code
      Retinal Light Scattering Measurements as a Clinical Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease
      $481,765
      award amount

  26. Gregg E. Trahey

    Leads 1 award · $477,738

    • 5R01EB017711-12Department: NIH department code
      Coherence-Based Fetal Ultrasonic Imaging
      $477,738
      award amount

  27. Fan Yuan

    Leads 1 award · $402,500

    • 5R35GM145362-04Department: NIH department code
      Chemically Assisted Electrotransfer of DNA
      $402,500
      award amount

  28. Brenton D Hoffman

    Leads 1 award · $387,662

    • 1R35GM156302-01Department: NIH department code
      Force-sensitive Linker Proteins as Mediators of Cellular Mechanosensitivity
      $387,662
      award amount

  29. Philip Anthony Romero

    Leads 1 award · $354,577

    • 5R01GM150929-04Department: NIH department code
      Self-driving laboratories for autonomous exploration of protein sequence space
      $354,577
      award amount

  30. Aaron Matthew Kyle

    Leads 1 award · $255,806

    • 5R25GM142072-06Department: NIH department code
      Hk Maker Lab 2.0: Inspiring Engineering Design Thinking in Grades 6 - 12 Students and Teacher
      $255,806
      award amount

  31. Al-Hafeez Zahir Dhalla

    Leads 1 award · $233,001

  32. Adam Matthew Beitz

    Leads 1 award · $91,001

    • 4K00CA284280-03Department: NIH department code
      Mapping p53 dynamics to cell-fate outcomes in reprogramming and oncogenesis
      $91,001
      award amount

  33. Ryan Michael Boileau

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32GM157893-01Department: NIH department code
      Highly parallelized characterization of histone reader dysfunction
      $75,052
      award amount

  34. Hayoung Jeong

    Leads 1 award · $42,941

    • 1F31HL179990-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Insights into Health Disparities: Leveraging Longitudinal Wearable Data to Assess the Impact of Built Environment on Physical Activity and Health Outcomes
      $42,941
      award amount

  35. Kevin Shores

    Leads 1 award · $42,696

    • 5F31HL172589-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Effects of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Mutation Correction in Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels
      $42,696
      award amount

  36. Jahrane Antonio Dale

    Leads 1 award · $42,691

    • 5F31NS130997-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Evoked Potentials of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
      $42,691
      award amount

  37. Amit Narawane

    Leads 1 award · $27,943

    • 5F31EY035168-02Department: NIH department code
      Robotic and handheld OCT imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy
      $27,943
      award amount

  38. Pranam Chatterjee

    Leads 1 award · $27,140

    • 5R35GM155282-02Department: NIH department code
      Towards the Design of Programmable, Isoform-Selective Proteome Editing System
      $27,140
      award amount

  39. Cameron Michael Kim

    Leads 1 award · $21,455

    • 5R25EB035497-02Department: NIH department code
      From Biotech to Benchside: Team-Based Undergraduate Experiences in Design Thinking and Learning
      $21,455
      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.