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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Funding
$21.1M
$21,144,062
Awards
39
FY2026 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
44
29 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
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 Johns Hopkins University page.

Leads a grant in this department

29 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. Valina L. Dawson

    Leads 3 awards · $2,290,183

    • 5R01AG078830-05Department: NIH department code
      Imaging Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomic Analysis of the Alzheimer's Brain

      Principal investigators: Valina L. Dawson (contact PI), Chan-Hyun Na, Kristine Glunde, Tae-In Kam

      $818,662
      award amount
    • 5R01AG085688-03Department: NIH department code
      MIF Nuclease actions in Synuclein Dementias

      Principal investigators: Valina L. Dawson (contact PI), Ted M. Dawson

      $818,421
      award amount
    • 1R01AG093848-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PARP and MIF Nuclease Actions in Tauopathies

      Principal investigators: Valina L. Dawson (contact PI), Ted M. Dawson

      $653,100
      award amount

  2. Takanari Inoue

    Leads 3 awards · $2,125,027

    • 5T32GM144272-05Department: NIH department code
      Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
      $1,078,342
      award amount
    • 5R35GM149329-04Department: NIH department code
      Decoding dynamic interplay between signaling and membranes in chemotaxis by molecular actuators
      $619,060
      award amount
    • 1R21MH138991-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Chemi-Knock: Achieving rapidly inducible loss-of-function in live animal brains during memory consolidation

      Principal investigators: Takanari Inoue (contact PI), Hyungbae Kwon

      $427,625
      award amount

  3. Scot Charles Kuo

    Leads 1 award · $1,795,684

    • 1S10OD040272-01Department: NIH department code
      MinFlux super-resolution microscope
      $1,795,684
      award amount

  4. Xiaobo Mao

    Leads 2 awards · $1,420,460

    • 4R01AG079487-02Department: NIH department code
      Determine the role of atmospheric particulate matter pollutants in contributing to Lewy Body Dementia

      Principal investigators: Xiaobo Mao (contact PI), Pengfei Liu, Zhang Xuan

      $745,920
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125592-03Department: NIH department code
      α-Synuclein strain properties are associated with diagnosis of and progression to Parkinson's disease with dementia

      Principal investigators: Xiaobo Mao (contact PI), Liana Isa Shapiro Rosenthal

      $674,540
      award amount

  5. Hanseok Ko

    Leads 2 awards · $1,268,595

    • 1R01NS148478-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel non-viral GBA1 gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

      Principal investigators: Hanseok Ko (contact PI), Jung Soo Suk

      $646,509
      award amount
    • 5R01AG092547-02Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling microglial NOD2/RIPK2 signaling: Implications for neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease
      $622,086
      award amount

  6. Susan D. Michaelis

    Leads 2 awards · $1,102,458

    • 5R01AG075047-05Department: NIH department code
      Role for prelamin A in premature and physiological aging

      Principal investigators: Susan D. Michaelis (contact PI), Howard J Worman

      $591,558
      award amount
    • 5R35GM127073-09Department: NIH department code
      Role of the integral membrane protease ZMPSTE24 in membrane protein biogenesis and virus-host cell fusion
      $510,900
      award amount

  7. Shigeki Watanabe

    Leads 1 award · $1,049,909

    • 5R35NS132153-04Department: NIH department code
      Ultrafast membrane trafficking at synapses
      $1,049,909
      award amount

  8. Peter N Devreotes

    Leads 1 award · $1,046,826

    • 2R35GM118177-11Department: NIH department code
      Excitable Networks in Directed Cell Migration
      $1,046,826
      award amount

  9. Deborah J Andrew

    Leads 2 awards · $1,010,246

    • 5R01DE013899-24Department: NIH department code
      Formation of the Drosophila salivary gland
      $601,466
      award amount
    • 5R01GM145873-04Department: NIH department code
      GPCR signaling during embryonic organ formation
      $408,780
      award amount

  10. Erik Christian Andersen

    Leads 1 award · $817,466

  11. Miho Iijima

    Leads 2 awards · $736,123

    • 5R35GM131768-08Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Intracellular Signaling
      $486,338
      award amount
    • 3R35GM131768-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Intracellular Signaling
      $249,785
      award amount

  12. Yuchuan Miao

    Leads 1 award · $731,549

    • 1DP2HD125960-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling human intervertebral disc development with stem cells
      $731,549
      award amount

  13. Andrew Josef Ewald

    Leads 1 award · $679,564

    • 5U01CA284090-04Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the single cell state basis of metastasis in space and time
      $679,564
      award amount

  14. Mikala Egeblad

    Leads 1 award · $646,873

    • 5U01CA293470-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining brain-body feedback loops mediating stress-induced metastasis

      Principal investigators: Mikala Egeblad (contact PI), Linda Van Aelst

      $646,873
      award amount

  15. Douglas N Robinson

    Leads 2 awards · $633,110

    • 5R01GM149073-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Cytoskeletal Mechanosensory Systems

      Principal investigators: Douglas N Robinson (contact PI), Pablo A. Iglesias

      $603,897
      award amount
    • 3R01GM149073-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Cytoskeletal Mechanosensory Systems

      Principal investigators: Douglas N Robinson (contact PI), Pablo A. Iglesias

      $29,213
      award amount

  16. Hiromi Sesaki

    Leads 1 award · $581,247

    • 5R35GM144103-05Department: NIH department code
      Structure, Turnover and Safeguard of Mitochondria
      $581,247
      award amount

  17. Erika L Matunis

    Leads 1 award · $491,374

    • 5R35GM136665-07Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of cellular plasticity and regeneration in Drosophila spermatogenesis
      $491,374
      award amount

  18. Chuan-Hsiang Huang

    Leads 1 award · $458,950

    • 1R35GM163951-01Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering Signaling Network Dynamics, Structure, and Function
      $458,950
      award amount

  19. Patrick Cahan

    Leads 1 award · $458,500

    • 5R35GM124725-10Department: NIH department code
      From intra to intercellular regulatory networks that define cell type identity
      $458,500
      award amount

  20. Michael Louis Piacentino

    Leads 1 award · $409,375

    • 5R35GM155257-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining how membrane fluidity regulates embryonic cell migration
      $409,375
      award amount

  21. Peter J. Espenshade

    Leads 1 award · $409,375

    • 5R35GM149312-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Membrane Lipid Homeostasis
      $409,375
      award amount

  22. Jian Liu

    Leads 1 award · $382,007

    • 5R01GM148459-04Department: NIH department code
      Predictive multi-scale model of focal adhesion-based durotaxis
      $382,007
      award amount

  23. Jason Paul Chua

    Leads 1 award · $201,960

    • 5K08NS123428-04Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing ⍺-synuclein toxicity through neuron-specific enhancement of autophagy
      $201,960
      award amount

  24. Shuya Li

    Leads 1 award · $119,691

    • 1K99NS144115-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of α-synuclein aggregates-induced glymphatic dysfunction and its role in LBD progression
      $119,691
      award amount

  25. Mostafa M. Nasr

    Leads 1 award · $95,495

    • 4K00CA284258-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the extrinsic regulators of cancer dormancy in the local and distant microenvironments
      $95,495
      award amount

  26. Mallorie Patricia Jenne

    Leads 1 award · $50,914

    • 5F31DE035770-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of Raftlin-2 in neural crest cell specification and migration
      $50,914
      award amount

  27. Yu Deng

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HL182305-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Roles of PIP5KDuring Cell Migration
      $50,114
      award amount

  28. Nathaniel Laughner

    Leads 1 award · $47,484

    • 5F31DE034305-03Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Regulatory Mechanisms of the Fork Head Transcription Factor
      $47,484
      award amount

  29. Jackson Mace

    Leads 1 award · $33,503

    • 5F31NS132520-03Department: NIH department code
      Inhibition of MIF nuclease-mediated parthanatos prevents neuron and oligodendrocyte death in the context of multiple sclerosis
      $33,503
      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.