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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

Funding
$13.3M
$13,261,884
Awards
31
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
29
26 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology page.

Leads a grant in this department

26 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 · $1,619,014

    • 2T32GM136540-06Department: NIH department code
      Pre-doctoral Training in Fundamental Approaches to Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology

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

      $1,619,014
      award amount
  2. Omer Yilmaz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,615,520

    • 4R01DK140310-03Department: NIH department code
      The lysosomal fasting response in intestinal stem cells and cancer
      $1,183,896
      award amount
    • 2R01CA245314-06Department: NIH department code
      Impact of fasting on intestinal stem cells and cancer
      $431,624
      award amount
  3. Rebecca L Lamason

    Leads 2 awards · $1,175,648

    • 5R01AI155489-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of SFG Rickettsia-Host Interactions
      $736,860
      award amount
    • 1R35GM164217-01Department: NIH department code
      Microbial Manipulation Of Eukaryotic Membranes
      $438,788
      award amount
  4. Daniel J Lew

    Leads 2 awards · $824,649

    • 5R35GM122488-11Department: NIH department code
      Studies on cell polarity, chemotropism, and cell cycle control
      $705,960
      award amount
    • 3R35GM122488-11S1Department: NIH department code
      Studies on cell polarity, chemotropism, and cell cycle control
      $118,689
      award amount
  5. Alan D Grossman

    Leads 1 award · $747,547

    • 5R35GM148343-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and regulation of replication, the cell cycle, gene expression, and horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes, focusing on Bacillus subtilis.
      $747,547
      award amount
  6. Laurie A Boyer

    Leads 1 award · $655,926

    • 1R01GM164515-01Department: NIH department code
      Design and optimization of high refractive index proteins for deep tissue imaging in living biological systems

      Principal investigators: Laurie A Boyer (contact PI), Sergey L. Ovchinnikov

      $655,926
      award amount
  7. Joseph Davis

    Leads 2 awards · $587,592

    • 5R01GM144542-05Department: NIH department code
      Tools to determine and analyze the structures of molecular machines in motion
      $318,521
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163924-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrative computational and experimental approaches to visualize highly heterogeneous structural ensembles through Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET
      $269,071
      award amount
  8. Adam Christopher Martin

    Leads 2 awards · $554,638

    • 5R35GM144115-05Department: NIH department code
      Tissue morphogenesis: From signals to forces
      $362,326
      award amount
    • 2R35GM144115-06Department: NIH department code
      Tissue morphogenesis: From signals to forces
      $192,312
      award amount
  9. Thomas Schwartz

    Leads 1 award · $553,136

    • 1R01AI194916-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Visualization of nuclear pore passage of the HIV-1 capsid
      $553,136
      award amount
  10. Linlin Fan

    Leads 1 award · $543,711

    • 1R01MH145508-01Department: NIH department code
      Probing endocannabinoid-mediated inhibitory synaptic mechanisms of hippocampal plasticity with all-optical physiology
      $543,711
      award amount
  11. Amy E Keating

    Leads 1 award · $540,278

    • 5R35GM149227-04Department: NIH department code
      Computational and Experimental Investigation and Design of Protein Interaction Specificity
      $540,278
      award amount
  12. Tami D Lieberman

    Leads 1 award · $524,900

    • 5R35GM156282-02Department: NIH department code
      Drivers of adaptation and colonization within individual human microbiomes
      $524,900
      award amount
  13. Kristin A Knouse

    Leads 1 award · $518,779

    • 1R01DK145857-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the molecular signals that drive liver regeneration
      $518,779
      award amount
  14. Gene-Wei Li

    Leads 1 award · $468,870

    • 5R35GM124732-09Department: NIH department code
      Evolution and Regulation of Bacterial Proteome Composition
      $468,870
      award amount
  15. Eliezer Calo-Velazquez

    Leads 1 award · $432,965

    • 2R35GM142634-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms regulating ribosome assembly and function in stem cells and vertebrate development.
      $432,965
      award amount
  16. Catherine L Drennan

    Leads 1 award · $410,347

    • 5R35GM126982-09Department: NIH department code
      Metalloenzyme structure, function and assembly
      $410,347
      award amount
  17. Brandon Weissbourd

    Leads 1 award · $397,500

    • 5R01NS141960-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Network-Scale Neural Regeneration in a New Neuroscience Model
      $397,500
      award amount
  18. Christopher B Burge

    Leads 1 award · $325,003

    • 5T32GM158496-02Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary graduate training for the next generation of computational and systems biologists

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

      $325,003
      award amount
  19. Brandon Yiu Chung Sit

    Leads 1 award · $185,472

    • 1K99AI192941-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular host determinants of spotted fever group rickettsial infection
      $185,472
      award amount
  20. Daniel S Saxton

    Leads 1 award · $127,567

    • 1K99GM166944-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of nuclease-based bacterial immunity
      $127,567
      award amount
  21. Caitlin Marie Seluzicki

    Leads 1 award · $94,603

    • 5K00AG079817-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating regeneration factors in the aging mammalian liver
      $94,603
      award amount
  22. Yeo Jung Koh

    Leads 1 award · $94,603

    • 5K00AG083111-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of blood-brain barrier deterioration in vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease
      $94,603
      award amount
  23. Leah K Borden

    Leads 1 award · $82,348

    • 5F32HL178155-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of Extracellular Matrix in Down Syndrome Associated Cardiac Phenotypes.
      $82,348
      award amount
  24. Anthony Drew McDougal

    Leads 1 award · $81,040

    • 5F32GM154448-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating mechanisms of coordinating actinstructure across multiple levels oforder
      $81,040
      award amount
  25. Grace Anne Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA301546-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the influence of phospholipases onimmune evasion
      $50,114
      award amount
  26. Ilya Andreev

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DK143578-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Ferrostatic Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages
      $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.