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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Funding
$20.4M
$20,399,623
Awards
39
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
33
28 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Johns Hopkins University page.

Leads a grant in this department

28 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. Zhaozhu Qiu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,850,718

    • 4RF1NS134549-02Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a new large-pore channel as a novel target for neuropathic pain

      Principal investigators: Zhaozhu Qiu (contact PI), Yun Guan

      $1,359,468
      award amount
    • 5R35GM124824-10Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Identity and Physiological Function of Novel Chloride Channels
      $491,250
      award amount
  2. Rajini Rao

    Leads 2 awards · $1,783,204

    • 5UC2HD113036-04Department: NIH department code
      Minerals in Nutrition and Development
      $973,697
      award amount
    • 5T32GM135457-07Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
      $809,507
      award amount
  3. Svetlana Lutsenko

    Leads 3 awards · $1,628,194

    • 5R01DK117396-07Department: NIH department code
      Copper Homeostasis and Liver Function

      Principal investigators: Svetlana Lutsenko (contact PI), James P Hamilton

      $609,278
      award amount
    • 5R01DK071865-20Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Active Copper Transport
      $555,594
      award amount
    • 5R01NS134958-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Copper in Choroid Plexus
      $463,322
      award amount
  4. Shuying Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,399,329

    • 5R01AG078948-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation mechanism and functional genomics of LINE1 RNA in TDP-43 linked neurodegeneration

      Principal investigators: Shuying Sun (contact PI), Xianjun Dong

      $819,184
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127925-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of m6A RNA methylation in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD
      $580,145
      award amount
  5. Jennifer L Pluznick

    Leads 2 awards · $1,298,361

    • 5R01DK137762-03Department: NIH department code
      Olfactory Receptor 558 (OLFR558) Ligands and Blood Pressure Regulation

      Principal investigators: Jennifer L Pluznick (contact PI), Vladlen Z Slepak

      $682,353
      award amount
    • 5R01DK139021-03Department: NIH department code
      Sex Differences in Blood Pressure and Olfactory Receptor 558 (OLFR558)
      $616,008
      award amount
  6. James M. Berger

    Leads 2 awards · $1,293,147

    • 5R35CA263778-06Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and exploiting DNA topoisomerases in cancer biology
      $885,095
      award amount
    • 5R37GM071747-22Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Studies of Replication Initiation in Prokaryotes
      $408,052
      award amount
  7. Karen G. Fleming

    Leads 2 awards · $1,038,043

    • 5T32GM135131-07Department: NIH department code
      Program in Molecular Biophysics
      $647,005
      award amount
    • 5R35GM148199-04Department: NIH department code
      Forces Driving Membrane Protein Folds
      $391,038
      award amount
  8. Cynthia Wolberger

    Leads 1 award · $917,920

    • 5R35GM130393-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic studies of chromatin modification in transcription regulation
      $917,920
      award amount
  9. Bin Wu

    Leads 2 awards · $853,875

    • 1R21AG096724-01Department: NIH department code
      Imaging translation of single endogenous mRNAs in genetically engineered human ALS/FTD iPSC-derived neurons

      Principal investigators: Bin Wu (contact PI), Pan Li

      $427,625
      award amount
    • 1R35GM161776-01Department: NIH department code
      Probe translation regulation by imaging single protein-mRNA interaction in live cells
      $426,250
      award amount
  10. Steven Michael Claypool

    Leads 2 awards · $818,714

    • 5R01HL165729-04Department: NIH department code
      An intimate and multifaceted partnership: cardiolipin and the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier
      $494,106
      award amount
    • 5R01GM151746-04Department: NIH department code
      Endoplasmic reticulum-assisted mitochondrial precursor biogenesis and quality control
      $324,608
      award amount
  11. Edward C Twomey

    Leads 2 awards · $798,021

    • 5R35GM154904-03Department: NIH department code
      Ligand Gated Ion Channels Across Time and Space
      $409,375
      award amount
    • 1R01NS148147-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Delta-2 Receptor Dysfunction in Neurological Diseases
      $388,646
      award amount
  12. Jie Xiao

    Leads 1 award · $681,207

    • 5R35GM136436-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Bacterial Cell Wall Constriction and Chromosome Organization
      $681,207
      award amount
  13. Yuan He

    Leads 1 award · $659,115

    • 5R35GM158347-02Department: NIH department code
      Structure and mechanism of how cells read and repair the genome
      $659,115
      award amount
  14. Guang William Wong

    Leads 1 award · $625,807

    • 5R01DK084171-15Department: NIH department code
      CTRP and Metabolic Control
      $625,807
      award amount
  15. Sarah A. Woodson

    Leads 1 award · $615,492

    • 5R35GM136351-07Department: NIH department code
      Assembly Mechanisms of RNA-Protein Complexes for Genetic Control
      $615,492
      award amount
  16. Chang Liu

    Leads 1 award · $478,761

    • 5DP2AI177906-04Department: NIH department code
      Emerging mechanisms of viral gene regulation from battles between host and SARS-CoV-2
      $478,761
      award amount
  17. Evan S O'Brien

    Leads 1 award · $466,363

    • 1DP1DA066056-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing and exploiting "allosteric crosstalk" amongst pain receptors
      $466,363
      award amount
  18. Dominique Pascal Frueh

    Leads 1 award · $450,313

    • 5R35GM156407-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Remodeling Dynamic Landscapes in Multidomain Enzymatic Factories
      $450,313
      award amount
  19. Gregory Dean Bowman

    Leads 1 award · $423,129

    • 1R35GM161347-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Studies of Chromatin Remodeling
      $423,129
      award amount
  20. Margaret Ellen Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $420,936

    • 1R35GM161901-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Protein Self-Assembly Coupled to Membrane Mechanics in the Cell
      $420,936
      award amount
  21. Douglas E. Barrick

    Leads 1 award · $417,450

    • 5R35GM158123-02Department: NIH department code
      Thermodynamic and Functional Analysis of Consensus and Covariance in Proteins, and Bivalent Notch Complexes
      $417,450
      award amount
  22. Jungsan Sohn

    Leads 1 award · $409,393

    • 5R35GM145363-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Studies of cytosolic double-stranded DNA sensing pathways.
      $409,393
      award amount
  23. Evgenia Nikolaevna Nikolova

    Leads 1 award · $343,875

    • 5R01GM147642-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the Mechanisms of Pioneer Factor Facilitated Chromatin Opening
      $343,875
      award amount
  24. Kimberly Ann Reynolds

    Leads 1 award · $329,490

    • 5R01GM136842-07Department: NIH department code
      Mapping Genetic Variation in Enzyme Velocity to Growth Rate Phenotype
      $329,490
      award amount
  25. Yuan-Chi Huang

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM143481-04Department: NIH department code
      Reconstructing and deconstructing intracellular signaling at the membrane-cytosol interface
      $249,000
      award amount
  26. Curtis Hahnyong Beck

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA294935-02Department: NIH department code
      Topologically complex DNA substrates to aid structure determination of the human topoisomerase IIa
      $50,114
      award amount
  27. Elise White

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AI186509-02Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Hfq-RNA Dynamics on an Atomistic Scale
      $50,114
      award amount
  28. Lucas Dillard

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31GM157915-02Department: NIH department code
      Mapping Tight Junction Architecture
      $49,538
      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.