Skip to main content
ConductScienceScienceDex

FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Funding
$38.1M
$38,116,785
Awards
61
FY2026 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
47
35 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
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 Johns Hopkins University page.

Leads a grant in this department

35 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. Sridevi V. Sarma

    Leads 19 awards · $16,682,227

  2. Xiaoqin Wang

    Leads 3 awards · $3,541,563

    • 5U01DA056556-05Department: NIH department code
      Tools for gene editing in marmosets

      Principal investigators: Xiaoqin Wang (contact PI), Christopher A Ross, James H. Segars, Richard L Huganir

      $1,626,879
      award amount
    • 5U24MH123423-07Department: NIH department code
      Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding Center

      Principal investigators: Xiaoqin Wang (contact PI), Cory T Miller

      $1,259,805
      award amount
    • 1R01DC024060-01Department: NIH department code
      Cortical representations of electrical stimulation of the cochlea
      $654,879
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DC021609-04, led by Kechen Zhang.

  3. Patrick O Kanold

    Leads 3 awards · $2,577,962

    • 4RF1AG078378-02Department: NIH department code
      Cell type specific vulnerability to aging

      Principal investigators: Patrick O Kanold (contact PI), Justus M Kebschull

      $1,544,328
      award amount
    • 5R01DC009607-19Department: NIH department code
      NEURONAL CIRCUITS AND PLASTICITY OF NEONATAL AUDITORY CORTEX
      $602,297
      award amount
    • 5T32GM154662-02Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Engineering Training Program

      Principal investigators: Patrick O Kanold (contact PI), Rachel Karchin

      $431,337
      award amount

  4. Deok-Ho Kim

    Leads 3 awards · $1,742,813

    • 1R01HL179347-01A1Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput Multimodal Functional Phenotypic Assay for Human Cardiotoxicity Screening
      $735,459
      award amount
    • 5R01NS133965-03Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput neurovascular-unit-on-a-chip with OASIS for modeling Parkinson's disease

      Principal investigators: Deok-Ho Kim (contact PI), Gabsang Lee

      $579,729
      award amount
    • 1R21AG102518-01Department: NIH department code
      Human Neuromuscular Aging-on-a-Chip: Modeling Molecular and Functional Hallmarks of Skeletal Muscle Decline
      $427,625
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01CA279948-03, led by Eun Hyun Ahn.

  5. Natalia A. Trayanova

    Leads 2 awards · $1,487,490

    • 5R01HL166759-04Department: NIH department code
      Artificial intelligence analysis of atrial remodeling evolution in patients with atrial fibrillation: Towards optimal ablation strategies

      Principal investigators: Natalia A. Trayanova (contact PI), David Spragg, Eugene Kholmovski

      $800,793
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174440-03Department: NIH department code
      Heart Digital Twin Analysis of Arrhythmias due to Infiltrating Adiposity
      $686,697
      award amount

  6. Nitish Vyomesh Thakor

    Leads 2 awards · $1,328,923

    Also a principal investigator on 3U54EB033664-05SH, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S4, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S1, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SA, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S5, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SF, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S3, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SE, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S7, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-04SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S2, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S9, led by Sridevi V. Sarma.

  7. Timothy D Harris

    Leads 2 awards · $1,314,651

    • 5U24NS140961-02Department: NIH department code
      Expanding support and training for new users of next-generation electrophysiology probes

      Principal investigators: Timothy D Harris (contact PI), Austin Robert Graves

      $698,066
      award amount
    • 1R01NS142455-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Tools to enable brain wide chronic electrophysiology in freely moving rodents

      Principal investigators: Timothy D Harris (contact PI), Austin Robert Graves

      $616,585
      award amount

  8. Kathleen E Cullen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,301,203

    • 5R01DC002390-28Department: NIH department code
      The Physiology of Vestibular Compensation
      $646,657
      award amount
    • 5R01DC018061-07Department: NIH department code
      Neural Computations Underlying Cancellation of the Vestibular Consequences of Voluntary Movement
      $629,546
      award amount
    • 1R13NS149473-01Department: NIH department code
      2026 Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
      $25,000
      award amount

  9. Eun Hyun Ahn

    Leads 1 award · $1,271,714

    • 4R01CA279948-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineered biomimetic collective cancer invasion models for screening chemotherapeutic agents

      Principal investigators: Eun Hyun Ahn (contact PI), Deok-Ho Kim

      $1,271,714
      award amount

  10. Evaristus A Nwulia

    Leads 1 award · $1,000,000

    Also a principal investigator on 3U54EB033664-05S7, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-04SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S2, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S9, led by Sridevi V. Sarma.

  11. Ralph Etienne-Cummings

    Leads 1 award · $1,000,000

    Also a principal investigator on 3U54EB033664-05S7, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-04SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S2, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S9, led by Sridevi V. Sarma.

  12. Youseph Yazdi

    Leads 1 award · $1,000,000

    Also a principal investigator on 3U54EB033664-05SH, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S4, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S1, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SA, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S5, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SF, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S3, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SD, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S8, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SE, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SC, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05SG, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S6, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S7, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-04SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S2, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S9, led by Sridevi V. Sarma.

  13. Reza Shadmehr

    Leads 2 awards · $743,890

    • 5R37NS128416-04Department: NIH department code
      Control of movements by the cerebellum
      $720,112
      award amount
    • 3R37NS128416-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Control of movements by the cerebellum
      $23,778
      award amount

  14. Adam S. Charles

    Leads 1 award · $677,319

    • 5R01EB037653-02Department: NIH department code
      Ultrafast optical brain imaging via blurred matrix completion
      $677,319
      award amount

  15. Reza Kalhor

    Leads 1 award · $635,308

    • 1R01HD122731-01Department: NIH department code
      The long-term epigenetic consequences of DNA damage during embryonic development
      $635,308
      award amount

  16. Charles C Della Santina

    Leads 1 award · $606,652

    • 1R01DC023869-01Department: NIH department code
      Vestibular Implant Stimulation Targeting Semicircular Canals and Otolith End Organs
      $606,652
      award amount

  17. Joseph Webster Stayman

    Leads 1 award · $600,640

    • 5R01EB035908-02Department: NIH department code
      Ultra-high spatial resolution photon-counting CT with multiple focal spots

      Principal investigators: Joseph Webster Stayman (contact PI), Peter B Noel

      $600,640
      award amount

  18. Xingde Li

    Leads 1 award · $587,610

    • 5R01EB033364-04Department: NIH department code
      3D Scanning Two-photon Fiberscope Technology for Simultaneous Multi-region Multi-cell-type Imaging in Freely-moving Rodents
      $587,610
      award amount

  19. Annie Kathuria

    Leads 1 award · $538,657

    • 1R01MH143769-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural Navigator: Decoding Psychiatric Disorder Signatures from Patient-Derived Cerebral Organoid Network Dynamics
      $538,657
      award amount

  20. Justus M Kebschull

    Leads 1 award · $491,250

    • 5DP1DA056668-05Department: NIH department code
      IDENTIFYING EPIGENOMICS AND CONNECTOMICS OF PROTRACTED OPIOID WITHDRAWAL AND RELAPSE USING CELLULAR BARCODING
      $491,250
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4RF1AG078378-02, led by Patrick O Kanold.

  21. Steven L. Salzberg

    Leads 1 award · $420,660

    • 5R35GM130151-07Department: NIH department code
      Computational Methods for Microbial and Microbiome Sequence Analysis
      $420,660
      award amount

  22. Aleksander S. Popel

    Leads 1 award · $399,829

    • 1R21CA299548-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identification of imaging biomarkers using data on multiplexed digital pathology to predict clinical outcomes in breast cancer

      Principal investigators: Aleksander S. Popel (contact PI), Jeremias Sulam

      $399,829
      award amount

  23. Arvind P Pathak

    Leads 1 award · $399,829

    • 1R21CA304850-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Vascular Expansion Microscopy (vascExM): A New Method for High-Resolution Optical
      $399,829
      award amount

  24. Kechen Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $390,960

    • 5R01DC021609-04Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Online optimization for probing high-level auditory representations

      Principal investigators: Kechen Zhang (contact PI), Xiaoqin Wang

      $390,960
      award amount

  25. Mihaela Pertea

    Leads 1 award · $388,021

    • 5R35GM156470-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring new approaches for enhanced human gene annotation
      $388,021
      award amount

  26. Minzi Chang

    Leads 1 award · $194,270

    • 1R21DC023703-01Department: NIH department code
      Effects of early sensory loss on the developing auditory thalamocortical circuit
      $194,270
      award amount

  27. Hijee Kang

    Leads 1 award · $194,219

    • 5R21DC021520-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural dynamics in auditory cortex during implicit learning of complex sounds
      $194,219
      award amount

  28. Didhiti Mukherjee

    Leads 1 award · $163,750

    • 5R21DC020560-03Department: NIH department code
      Crossmodal plasticity in the auditory cortex in the precritical period
      $163,750
      award amount

  29. Brandie Morris Verdone

    Leads 1 award · $119,691

    • 1K99NS151699-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Contribution of Eye Movements to Successful Spatial Navigation in Rodents
      $119,691
      award amount

  30. Akshaya Vijaya Annapragada

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30CA294612-03Department: NIH department code
      Genome-wide approaches to non-invasive screening and characterization of ovarian cancers
      $55,114
      award amount

  31. Catherine Wang

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30CA301757-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of Acss2 in T cell adaptation to metabolic stress
      $55,114
      award amount

  32. Michael Everest Xie

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH138009-03Department: NIH department code
      STUDYING SINGLE NEURON COMPUTATIONS WITHIN BRAIN-WIDE CIRCUITS
      $55,114
      award amount

  33. Jade Daher

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DC022515-03Department: NIH department code
      Population coding of complex auditory stimuli in auditory cortex
      $50,114
      award amount

  34. Julia Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HD120018-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of a novel RNA binding protein during dauer in C. elegans
      $50,114
      award amount

  35. Mara Rebecca Lanis

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA301836-02Department: NIH department code
      CD4+ T Cell Activating Hydrogels for Cancer Immunotherapy
      $50,114
      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.

  • Christopher A Ross

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA056556-05, led by Xiaoqin Wang

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • James H. Segars

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA056556-05, led by Xiaoqin Wang

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Richard L Huganir

    Co-investigator on 5U01DA056556-05, led by Xiaoqin Wang

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Kebreten F Manaye

    Co-investigator on 5U54EB033664-05, led by Evaristus A Nwulia and Nitish Vyomesh Thakor and Ralph Etienne-Cummings and Sridevi V. Sarma and Youseph Yazdi; 3U54EB033664-05S7, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-04SB, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S2, led by Sridevi V. Sarma; 3U54EB033664-05S9, led by Sridevi V. Sarma

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Austin Robert Graves

    Co-investigator on 5U24NS140961-02, led by Timothy D Harris; 1R01NS142455-01A1, led by Timothy D Harris

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Cory T Miller

    Co-investigator on 5U24MH123423-07, led by Xiaoqin Wang

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • David Spragg

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL166759-04, led by Natalia A. Trayanova

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Eugene Kholmovski

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL166759-04, led by Natalia A. Trayanova

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Peter B Noel

    Co-investigator on 5R01EB035908-02, led by Joseph Webster Stayman

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Gabsang Lee

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS133965-03, led by Deok-Ho Kim

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Rachel Karchin

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM154662-02, led by Patrick O Kanold

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Jeremias Sulam

    Co-investigator on 1R21CA299548-01A1, led by Aleksander S. Popel

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads