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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Funding
$15.3M
$15,301,955
Awards
17
FY2026 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
12
9 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
Harvard Medical School, of 95 · 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 Anatomy & Cell Biology row of the Harvard University page. Department rankings count Harvard University's awards toward Harvard Medical School.

Leads a grant in this department

9 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. Paola Arlotta

    Leads 3 awards · $7,510,447

    • 5U01MH130962-05Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensive single-cell atlas of the developing mouse brain

      Principal investigators: Paola Arlotta (contact PI), Hongkui Zeng, Tomasz Nowakowski

      $6,255,654
      award amount
    • 5R01MH112940-08Department: NIH department code
      Modeling ASD-linked genetic mutations in 3D human brain organoids
      $832,293
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128117-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuron-Oligodendrocyte Communication Underlying Myelin Distribution in the Neocortex
      $422,500
      award amount

  2. Richard T Lee

    Leads 3 awards · $1,953,576

    • 5R01HL174859-02Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial Gene Editing in Human Cardiomyocytes
      $761,312
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169291-04Department: NIH department code
      Myocardial Physiology of Growth Differentiation Factor Signaling
      $596,303
      award amount
    • 1R01NS141924-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mitochondria and Gene Editing
      $595,961
      award amount

  3. Sharad Ramanathan

    Leads 3 awards · $1,703,948

    • 5R01MH134993-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding glial fate restriction in humans
      $742,794
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136014-02Department: NIH department code
      Platform to accurately recapitulate and perturb cortical development and morphogenesis in vitro
      $617,248
      award amount
    • 5R01GM131105-08Department: NIH department code
      Measuring and modeling the dynamics ofpatterning in human stem cells
      $343,906
      award amount

  4. Ya-Chieh Hsu

    Leads 3 awards · $1,501,974

    • 5R01AR083416-03Department: NIH department code
      Aging and Rejuvenation of Skin Stem Cells
      $537,517
      award amount
    • 5R01AR080110-05Department: NIH department code
      Rapid functional genetics to study stem cell-niche interactions in the skin
      $494,493
      award amount
    • 5R01AR084566-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Fetal Skin Regeneration
      $469,964
      award amount

  5. Jessica L. Whited

    Leads 1 award · $844,998

    • 5R01HD115272-03Department: NIH department code
      Roles of body-wide injury responses in axolotl limb regeneration
      $844,998
      award amount

  6. Amy Jo Wagers

    Leads 1 award · $707,230

    • 5U01AG086163-03Department: NIH department code
      Disrupted Communication Between Blood Cells and Non-blood Organs as a Mediator of Aging Pathologies
      $707,230
      award amount

  7. Jeffrey D MacKlis

    Leads 1 award · $665,314

    • 4R01AG083085-02Department: NIH department code
      Subcellular mechanisms of subtype-specific neuron vulnerability in ALS and FTD: dysregulation of synapse-localized RNA, protein, and translation in mouse models and human cortico-spinal assembloids
      $665,314
      award amount

  8. Emily Patricia Balskus

    Leads 1 award · $336,115

    • 3OT2CA297577-01S2Department: NIH department code
      PROSPECT: Pathways, Risk factors, and mOleculeS to Prevent Early-onset Colorectal Tumors

      Principal investigators: Emily Patricia Balskus (contact PI), Jason Daniel Buenrostro

      $336,115
      award amount

  9. Patrick Griffin

    Leads 1 award · $78,353

    • 5K00AG073499-06Department: NIH department code
      A novel method to identify regulators of biological aging 
based on high-throughput sequencing of epigenetic clocks.
      $78,353
      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.