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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$14.1M
$14,117,401
Awards
37
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
35
33 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#20
of 136 · 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 Biochemistry row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

33 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. Ali Shilatifard

    Leads 2 awards · $1,287,635

    • 5R35CA197569-12Department: NIH department code
      Mutations of Chromatin and its Modifying Machineries in Malignancies
      $942,367
      award amount
    • 5T32CA281953-04Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetics, Metabolism and Cancer
      $345,268
      award amount

  2. Feng Yue

    Leads 2 awards · $927,736

    • 5R01LM015300-08Department: NIH department code
      Profiling and characterization of genome-wide 3D promoter-silencer interactions
      $519,736
      award amount
    • 5R35GM124820-10Department: NIH department code
      High throughput interrogation of non-coding variants and 3D genome organization
      $408,000
      award amount

  3. Richard W. Carthew

    Leads 1 award · $719,314

    • 2R35GM118144-11Department: NIH department code
      Non-coding RNAs and their mechanisms and functions-Renewal
      $719,314
      award amount

  4. Iris Titos Vivancos

    Leads 2 awards · $672,348

    • 1DP1DA066918-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding peptidergic programming of the dopamine epigenome in substance use disorder
      $480,000
      award amount
    • 5K01DA058919-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of diet modulating experience-dependent amphetamine preference
      $192,348
      award amount

  5. Marc Mendillo

    Leads 2 awards · $671,813

    • 5R01CA258833-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Rational Combination Therapies for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
      $343,458
      award amount
    • 5R01GM144617-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and interplay of Heat Shock Factors in growth-associated proteotoxic stresses
      $328,355
      award amount

  6. Lillian J. Eichner

    Leads 1 award · $631,487

    • 1R01CA296078-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining determinants of the lineage identity program in lung cancer and therapeutic resistance
      $631,487
      award amount

  7. Juan Du

    Leads 1 award · $630,651

    • 1R01NS149623-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanism of Magnesium Transport in Neuronal Homeostasis

      Principal investigators: Juan Du (contact PI), Wei Lu

      $630,651
      award amount

  8. Christian Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $621,091

    • 7R35GM149280-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of whole-body regeneration
      $621,091
      award amount

  9. Jason Hays Brickner

    Leads 1 award · $598,848

    • 1R35GM161279-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of the nuclear pore complex in spatially organizing the genome and regulating gene expression
      $598,848
      award amount

  10. Alfonso Mondragon

    Leads 1 award · $582,907

    • 7R35GM118108-09Department: NIH department code
      Structural and biophysical studies of proteins, nucleic acids, and their complexes
      $582,907
      award amount

  11. Issam Ben-Sahra

    Leads 1 award · $577,280

    • 5R35GM158171-02Department: NIH department code
      Signaling and Metabolic Regulation of Nucleotide Metabolism and Cell Growth
      $577,280
      award amount

  12. Xiaomin Bao

    Leads 1 award · $524,335

    • 1R01AR085556-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Regulation of Epidermal Differentiation Genes by Cell-State-Specific PBAF Interactome
      $524,335
      award amount

  13. Shannon Marie Lauberth

    Leads 1 award · $440,000

    • 1R35GM161368-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory Roles of Noncoding RNAs in Gene Expression and Cellular Stress Responses
      $440,000
      award amount

  14. Heather Wendy Pinkett

    Leads 1 award · $431,337

    • 2T32GM140995-06Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Northwestern University

      Principal investigators: Heather Wendy Pinkett (contact PI), Reza Vafabakhsh

      $431,337
      award amount

  15. John F Marko

    Leads 1 award · $428,064

    • 1R35GM161403-01Department: NIH department code
      Experimental and theoretical analysis of principles underlying molecular and genomic mechanobiology
      $428,064
      award amount

  16. Clara Bien Peek

    Leads 1 award · $423,780

    • 2R01DK123358-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Clock Control of Muscle Glucose Metabolism and HIF Activity
      $423,780
      award amount

  17. Ilya Ruvinsky

    Leads 1 award · $413,690

    • 7R01GM153791-03Department: NIH department code
      Signals and circuits that regulate developmental timing
      $413,690
      award amount

  18. Lu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM146979-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of BAP1/ASXL3 complex in transcriptional regulation and development
      $400,000
      award amount

  19. Yaping Liu

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM147283-06Department: NIH department code
      Method Development for Single-Cell Multi-omics
      $400,000
      award amount

  20. Arthur Prindle

    Leads 1 award · $377,258

    • 5R35GM147170-05Department: NIH department code
      Emergent metabolic coordination and cell-to-cell signaling in bacterial biofilms
      $377,258
      award amount

  21. Shelby Alexander Blythe

    Leads 1 award · $348,733

    • 2R01HD101563-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining epigenetic mechanisms for embryonic patterning
      $348,733
      award amount

  22. Sarah Marie Wignall

    Leads 1 award · $327,989

    • 7R01GM124354-09Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of chromosome segregation during oocyte meiosis
      $327,989
      award amount

  23. Zhiqiang Du

    Leads 1 award · $322,962

    • 5R01GM155872-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding prion-mediated transcriptional modifications and cellular phenotypes: insights into the role of Swi1 prion and prion-like behaviors of BAF proteins
      $322,962
      award amount

  24. Laura L Lackner

    Leads 1 award · $271,836

    • 1T32GM161675-01Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology (QCMDB) Training Program
      $271,836
      award amount

  25. Daniel Richard Foltz

    Leads 1 award · $240,000

    • 1R21EB037957-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a synthetic human centromere
      $240,000
      award amount

  26. Elizabeth Thomas Bartom

    Leads 1 award · $229,792

    • 5R50CA221848-09Department: NIH department code
      Bioinformatics Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data from Cancer Cells
      $229,792
      award amount

  27. Curt M Horvath

    Leads 1 award · $200,000

    • 1R21AI190630-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ubiquitin Ligase TRIM39 Control of Zika Virus Infection
      $200,000
      award amount

  28. Marta Iwanaszko

    Leads 1 award · $144,392

    • 5R50CA265372-05Department: NIH department code
      Computational Approaches for Studying Transcription Elongation Control in Cancer
      $144,392
      award amount

  29. Alejandro Rodriguez Gama

    Leads 1 award · $91,929

    • 5K00AG068511-06Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the role of protein self-assembly in the innate immune system
      $91,929
      award amount

  30. Gracie Siffer

    Leads 1 award · $45,329

    • 1F31HL184546-01Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical Study of the Activation and Signaling Mechanisms in Adhesion GPCRs (AdGPCR FRET)
      $45,329
      award amount

  31. Josiah Hiu-Yuen Wong

    Leads 1 award · $45,327

    • 5F31CA294623-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of SUV39H1 in maintaining heterochromatin architecture and identity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
      $45,327
      award amount

  32. Claire Chaikin

    Leads 1 award · $44,835

    • 5F31DK139621-02Department: NIH department code
      Circadian Clock Regulation of HIF1a-dependent Skeletal Muscle Metabolism during Diet-induced Obesity
      $44,835
      award amount

  33. Sarah Irene Keuning

    Leads 1 award · $44,703

    • 1F31NS149762-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Functional Investigation of Human Calcium Homeostasis Modulator 2 (CALHM2) Under Native Conditions
      $44,703
      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.