Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. Mary Gehring

   Leads 1 award · $1,600,351

   • 5T32GM136540-05Department: NIH department code

     Pre-doctoral Training in Fundamental Approaches to Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology

     Principal investigators: Mary Gehring (contact PI), Michael Laub

     $1,600,351

     award amount

2. Rebecca L Lamason

   Leads 2 awards · $1,045,328

   • 2R01AI155489-05A1Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of SFG Rickettsia-Host Interactions
     $738,563

     award amount
   • 5R01GM141025-04Department: NIH department code

     Microbial Control of Host Intercellular Communication
     $306,765

     award amount

3. Lindsay Case

   Leads 1 award · $950,060

   • 4DP2GM149549-02Department: NIH department code

     New insights into the molecular regulation of mechanotransduction
     $950,060

     award amount

4. Matthew G. Vander Heiden

   Leads 1 award · $770,689

   • 5R35CA242379-07Department: NIH department code

     Understanding the role of metabolism in cancer
     $770,689

     award amount

5. Alan D Grossman

   Leads 1 award · $748,149

   • 5R35GM148343-03Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms and regulation of replication, the cell cycle, gene expression, and horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes, focusing on Bacillus subtilis.
     $748,149

     award amount

6. Daniel J Lew

   Leads 1 award · $705,960

   • 5R35GM122488-10Department: NIH department code

     Studies on cell polarity, chemotropism, and cell cycle control
     $705,960

     award amount

7. Christopher B Burge

   Leads 2 awards · $647,498

   • 5R01GM085319-16Department: NIH department code

     Function of Sequence-specific RNA Binding Proteins
     $326,228

     award amount
   • 1T32GM158496-01Department: NIH department code

     Interdisciplinary graduate training for the next generation of computational and systems biologists

     Principal investigators: Christopher B Burge (contact PI), Ernest Fraenkel

     $321,270

     award amount

8. Brandon Weissbourd

   Leads 2 awards · $646,399

   • 1R01NS141960-01Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of Network-Scale Neural Regeneration in a New Neuroscience Model
     $397,500

     award amount
   • 5R00NS119749-05Department: NIH department code

     A New Animal Model to Examine Nervous System Function Development and Regeneration
     $248,899

     award amount

9. Omer Yilmaz

   Leads 1 award · $591,948

   • 5R01DK140310-02Department: NIH department code

     The lysosomal fasting response in intestinal stem cells and cancer
     $591,948

     award amount

10. Tami D Lieberman

    Leads 1 award · $557,900

    • 1R35GM156282-01Department: NIH department code

      Drivers of adaptation and colonization within individual human microbiomes
      $557,900

      award amount

11. Adam Christopher Martin

    Leads 1 award · $543,490

    • 5R35GM144115-04Department: NIH department code

      Tissue morphogenesis: From signals to forces
      $543,490

      award amount

12. Amy E Keating

    Leads 1 award · $541,050

    • 5R35GM149227-03Department: NIH department code

      Computational and Experimental Investigation and Design of Protein Interaction Specificity
      $541,050

      award amount

13. Gene-Wei Li

    Leads 1 award · $468,870

    • 5R35GM124732-08Department: NIH department code

      Evolution and Regulation of Bacterial Proteome Composition
      $468,870

      award amount

14. Barbara Imperiali

    Leads 1 award · $413,929

    • 5R01GM039334-36Department: NIH department code

      Deciphering the Principles of Membrane-Associated Glycan Assembly for Glycoconjugate Biosynthesis

      Principal investigators: Barbara Imperiali (contact PI), Karen N. Allen

      $413,929

      award amount

15. Catherine L Drennan

    Leads 1 award · $410,347

    • 5R35GM126982-08Department: NIH department code

      Metalloenzyme structure, function and assembly
      $410,347

      award amount

16. J. Troy Littleton

    Leads 1 award · $387,750

    • 5R01NS117588-05Department: NIH department code

      Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Mediating Structural and Functional Active Zone Maturation
      $387,750

      award amount

17. Stephen P. Bell

    Leads 1 award · $384,301

    • 5R01GM147960-04Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of replication origin licensing studied by real-time single-molecule fluorescence
      $384,301

      award amount

18. H Robert Horvitz

    Leads 1 award · $380,157

    • 5R01GM024663-47Department: NIH department code

      Genetic Analysis of Nematode Egg Laying and Co-regulated Behavioral Systems
      $380,157

      award amount

19. Thomas Schwartz

    Leads 1 award · $379,880

    • 5R35GM141834-05Department: NIH department code

      Structure-Function of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Communication
      $379,880

      award amount

20. Eliezer Calo-Velazquez

    Leads 1 award · $374,209

    • 5R35GM142634-05Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms regulating ribosome assembly and function in stem cells and vertebrate development.
      $374,209

      award amount

21. Joseph Davis

    Leads 1 award · $318,863

    • 5R01GM144542-04Department: NIH department code

      Tools to determine and analyze the structures of molecular machines in motion
      $318,863

      award amount

22. Karen N. Allen

    Leads 1 award · $290,275

    • 5R01GM131627-07Department: NIH department code

      Structure and function of the monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferase superfamily: Initiators of biosynthesis of complex bacterial glycoconjugates
      $290,275

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01GM039334-36, led by Barbara Imperiali.

23. Michael Laub

    Leads 1 award · $192,788

    • 5R21AI181878-02Department: NIH department code

      Systematic identification of novel anti-phage defense mechanisms in the E. coli pangenome
      $192,788

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM136540-05, led by Mary Gehring.

24. Caitlin Marie Seluzicki

    Leads 1 award · $92,232

    • 4K00AG079817-02Department: NIH department code

      Investigating regeneration factors in the aging mammalian liver
      $92,232

      award amount

25. Yeo Jung Koh

    Leads 1 award · $92,232

    • 4K00AG083111-03Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of blood-brain barrier deterioration in vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease
      $92,232

      award amount

26. Leah K Borden

    Leads 1 award · $78,520

    • 1F32HL178155-01Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the Role of Extracellular Matrix in Down Syndrome Associated Cardiac Phenotypes.
      $78,520

      award amount

27. Ari Selzer

    Leads 1 award · $74,632

    • 1F32GM161042-01Department: NIH department code

      Structural investigations into the regulatory states of human Ribonucleotide Reductase
      $74,632

      award amount

28. Ilya Andreev

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31DK143578-01Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the Ferrostatic Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages
      $49,538

      award amount

29. Juana Delao

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31GM154461-02Department: NIH department code

      Quantifying the contribution of supracellular actomyosin networks during mouse neural tube closure
      $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.

• Ernest Fraenkel

  Co-investigator on 1T32GM158496-01, led by Christopher B Burge

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Engineering (NIH department code, 2 awards)