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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at Duke University

Durham, NC

Funding
$4.8M
$4,776,236
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
12
11 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
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 Chemistry row of the Duke University page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Emily R Derbyshire

    Leads 2 awards · $1,050,606

    • 5R01AI173042-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and Targeting Host Processes Essential to Plasmodium Infection
      $527,826
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173295-04Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Biology Strategies to Resolve Plasmodium Heat Shock Protein Function
      $522,780
      award amount

  2. Qiu Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $665,359

    • 5R35GM158329-02Department: NIH department code
      New Amination Methods and Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
      $428,735
      award amount
    • 5R21EB036580-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing Hyperpolarized Nitrogen-15 MRI Agents for Probing Glutamine Metabolism
      $236,624
      award amount

  3. Jiyong Hong

    Leads 1 award · $521,760

    • 5R01CA279034-03Department: NIH department code
      Inhibiting Rev1-mediated translesion DNA synthesis for cancer therapy

      Principal investigators: Jiyong Hong (contact PI), Pei Zhou

      $521,760
      award amount

  4. Matthew L Becker

    Leads 1 award · $423,545

    • 5R01NS124889-05Department: NIH department code
      Synergistic Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Defect Repair using Peptide Functionalized Aligned Nanofiber Conduits
      $423,545
      award amount

  5. Weitao Yang

    Leads 1 award · $386,315

    • 5R35GM158181-02Department: NIH department code
      Computer Simulations of Enzymes
      $386,315
      award amount

  6. Kevin Welsher

    Leads 1 award · $386,000

    • 5R35GM124868-10Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Viral Infection Pathway with Virus-locked Observation
      $386,000
      award amount

  7. Steven Joseph Malcolmson

    Leads 1 award · $382,970

    • 5R35GM145285-05Department: NIH department code
      Strategies for the Catalytic Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules
      $382,970
      award amount

  8. David Beratan

    Leads 1 award · $351,289

    • 5R01GM048043-27Department: NIH department code
      Mapping of Electron Tunneling Pathways in Proteins
      $351,289
      award amount

  9. Dewey G McCafferty

    Leads 1 award · $315,767

    • 5R01GM148770-04Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Biology of the E3 Ubiqutin Ligase Nedd4
      $315,767
      award amount

  10. Edwin Alfonzo

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM152783-04Department: NIH department code
      Unlocking New Chemistries in Extant Enzymes for Synthesizing Bioactive Molecules
      $249,000
      award amount

  11. Sarah Seay Angle

    Leads 1 award · $43,625

    • 1F31AI200226-01Department: NIH department code
      Developing Prodrugs to Selectively Suppress Beta-lactam Resistant Bacteria
      $43,625
      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.