FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
- 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.
Mary Gehring
Leads 1 award · $1,619,014
- 2T32GM136540-06Department: NIH department codePre-doctoral Training in Fundamental Approaches to Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology
Principal investigators: Mary Gehring (contact PI), Michael Laub
$1,619,014award amount
Omer Yilmaz
Leads 2 awards · $1,615,520
- 4R01DK140310-03Department: NIH department codeThe lysosomal fasting response in intestinal stem cells and cancer$1,183,896award amount
- 2R01CA245314-06Department: NIH department codeImpact of fasting on intestinal stem cells and cancer$431,624award amount
Rebecca L Lamason
Leads 2 awards · $1,175,648
- 5R01AI155489-06Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of SFG Rickettsia-Host Interactions$736,860award amount
- 1R35GM164217-01Department: NIH department codeMicrobial Manipulation Of Eukaryotic Membranes$438,788award amount
Daniel J Lew
Leads 2 awards · $824,649
- 5R35GM122488-11Department: NIH department codeStudies on cell polarity, chemotropism, and cell cycle control$705,960award amount
- 3R35GM122488-11S1Department: NIH department codeStudies on cell polarity, chemotropism, and cell cycle control$118,689award amount
Alan D Grossman
Leads 1 award · $747,547
- 5R35GM148343-04Department: NIH department codeMechanisms and regulation of replication, the cell cycle, gene expression, and horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes, focusing on Bacillus subtilis.$747,547award amount
Laurie A Boyer
Leads 1 award · $655,926
- 1R01GM164515-01Department: NIH department codeDesign 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
$655,926award amount
Joseph Davis
Leads 2 awards · $587,592
- 5R01GM144542-05Department: NIH department codeTools to determine and analyze the structures of molecular machines in motion$318,521award amount
- 1R35GM163924-01Department: NIH department codeIntegrative computational and experimental approaches to visualize highly heterogeneous structural ensembles through Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET$269,071award amount
Adam Christopher Martin
Leads 2 awards · $554,638
- 5R35GM144115-05Department: NIH department codeTissue morphogenesis: From signals to forces$362,326award amount
- 2R35GM144115-06Department: NIH department codeTissue morphogenesis: From signals to forces$192,312award amount
Thomas Schwartz
Leads 1 award · $553,136
- 1R01AI194916-01A1Department: NIH department codeVisualization of nuclear pore passage of the HIV-1 capsid$553,136award amount
Linlin Fan
Leads 1 award · $543,711
- 1R01MH145508-01Department: NIH department codeProbing endocannabinoid-mediated inhibitory synaptic mechanisms of hippocampal plasticity with all-optical physiology$543,711award amount
Amy E Keating
Leads 1 award · $540,278
- 5R35GM149227-04Department: NIH department codeComputational and Experimental Investigation and Design of Protein Interaction Specificity$540,278award amount
Tami D Lieberman
Leads 1 award · $524,900
- 5R35GM156282-02Department: NIH department codeDrivers of adaptation and colonization within individual human microbiomes$524,900award amount
Kristin A Knouse
Leads 1 award · $518,779
- 1R01DK145857-01A1Department: NIH department codeDefining the molecular signals that drive liver regeneration$518,779award amount
Gene-Wei Li
Leads 1 award · $468,870
- 5R35GM124732-09Department: NIH department codeEvolution and Regulation of Bacterial Proteome Composition$468,870award amount
Eliezer Calo-Velazquez
Leads 1 award · $432,965
- 2R35GM142634-06Department: NIH department codeMechanisms regulating ribosome assembly and function in stem cells and vertebrate development.$432,965award amount
Catherine L Drennan
Leads 1 award · $410,347
- 5R35GM126982-09Department: NIH department codeMetalloenzyme structure, function and assembly$410,347award amount
Brandon Weissbourd
Leads 1 award · $397,500
- 5R01NS141960-02Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of Network-Scale Neural Regeneration in a New Neuroscience Model$397,500award amount
Christopher B Burge
Leads 1 award · $325,003
- 5T32GM158496-02Department: NIH department codeInterdisciplinary graduate training for the next generation of computational and systems biologists
Principal investigators: Christopher B Burge (contact PI), Ernest Fraenkel
$325,003award amount
Brandon Yiu Chung Sit
Leads 1 award · $185,472
- 1K99AI192941-01A1Department: NIH department codeMolecular host determinants of spotted fever group rickettsial infection$185,472award amount
Daniel S Saxton
Leads 1 award · $127,567
- 1K99GM166944-01Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of nuclease-based bacterial immunity$127,567award amount
Caitlin Marie Seluzicki
Leads 1 award · $94,603
- 5K00AG079817-03Department: NIH department codeInvestigating regeneration factors in the aging mammalian liver$94,603award amount
Yeo Jung Koh
Leads 1 award · $94,603
- 5K00AG083111-04Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of blood-brain barrier deterioration in vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease$94,603award amount
Leah K Borden
Leads 1 award · $82,348
- 5F32HL178155-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating the Role of Extracellular Matrix in Down Syndrome Associated Cardiac Phenotypes.$82,348award amount
Anthony Drew McDougal
Leads 1 award · $81,040
- 5F32GM154448-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating mechanisms of coordinating actinstructure across multiple levels oforder$81,040award amount
Grace Anne Johnson
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 1F31CA301546-01A1Department: NIH department codeInvestigating the influence of phospholipases onimmune evasion$50,114award amount
Ilya Andreev
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 5F31DK143578-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating the Ferrostatic Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages$50,114award 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.
Michael Laub
Co-investigator on 2T32GM136540-06, led by Mary Gehring
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Sergey L. Ovchinnikov
Co-investigator on 1R01GM164515-01, led by Laurie A Boyer
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Ernest Fraenkel
Co-investigator on 5T32GM158496-02, led by Christopher B Burge
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Engineering (NIH department code, 2 awards)