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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$15.9M
$15,880,823
Awards
38
FY2025 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
34
32 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#16
of 135 · 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

32 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 3 awards · $4,253,874

    • 1R01CA298333-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Somatic Truncation Mutations of the Histone Methyltransferase MLL4 Alter Its Subcellular Localization in Bladder Cancer: Mechanistic Insight and Targeted Therapeutic Approach

      Principal investigators: Ali Shilatifard (contact PI), Joshua James Meeks

      $2,970,010
      award amount
    • 5R35CA197569-11Department: NIH department code
      Mutations of Chromatin and its Modifying Machineries in Malignancies
      $939,694
      award amount
    • 5T32CA281953-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetics, Metabolism and Cancer
      $344,170
      award amount
  2. Feng Yue

    Leads 2 awards · $927,736

    • 9R01LM015300-07Department: NIH department code
      Profiling and characterization of genome-wide 3D promoter-silencer interactions
      $519,736
      award amount
    • 5R35GM124820-09Department: NIH department code
      High throughput interrogation of non-coding variants and 3D genome organization
      $408,000
      award amount
  3. Neil L Kelleher

    Leads 2 awards · $901,490

    • 5R01AT009143-21Department: NIH department code
      Mapping and Understanding Production of Natural Products in Fungi

      Principal investigators: Neil L Kelleher (contact PI), Nancy P Keller

      $475,130
      award amount
    • 5T32GM149439-03Department: NIH department code
      Chemistry of Life Processes Predoctoral Training Program
      $426,360
      award amount
  4. Ruli Gao

    Leads 2 awards · $816,528

    • 5R01HL160552-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining cellular mechanisms of chronic graft failure in transplanted hearts with single cell multi-omics
      $416,528
      award amount
    • 5R35GM142539-06Department: NIH department code
      Single Cell Mosaic Mutation Atlas of Human Organ
      $400,000
      award amount
  5. Sarah Marie Wignall

    Leads 2 awards · $672,126

    • 5R01GM141386-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of acentrosomal spindle assembly and stability during oocyte meiosis
      $344,137
      award amount
    • 5R01GM124354-08Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of chromosome segregation during oocyte meiosis
      $327,989
      award amount
  6. Richard W. Carthew

    Leads 1 award · $632,265

    • 5R35GM118144-10Department: NIH department code
      Non-coding RNAs and their mechanisms and functions
      $632,265
      award amount
  7. Amy C. Rosenzweig

    Leads 1 award · $628,440

    • 5R35GM118035-10Department: NIH department code
      Metalloenzymes and metal homeostasis
      $628,440
      award amount
  8. Christian Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $621,091

    • 5R35GM149280-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of whole-body regeneration
      $621,091
      award amount
  9. Alfonso Mondragon

    Leads 1 award · $582,907

    • 5R35GM118108-08Department: NIH department code
      Structural and biophysical studies of proteins, nucleic acids, and their complexes
      $582,907
      award amount
  10. Issam Ben-Sahra

    Leads 1 award · $577,280

    • 1R35GM158171-01Department: NIH department code
      Signaling and Metabolic Regulation of Nucleotide Metabolism and Cell Growth
      $577,280
      award amount
  11. Heather Wendy Pinkett

    Leads 1 award · $426,360

    • 5T32GM140995-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Northwestern University
      $426,360
      award amount
  12. Ilya Ruvinsky

    Leads 1 award · $413,690

    • 5R01GM153791-02Department: NIH department code
      Signals and circuits that regulate developmental timing
      $413,690
      award amount
  13. Lu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM146979-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of BAP1/ASXL3 complex in transcriptional regulation and development
      $400,000
      award amount
  14. Yaping Liu

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM147283-05Department: NIH department code
      Method Development for Single-Cell Multi-omics
      $400,000
      award amount
  15. Arthur Prindle

    Leads 1 award · $378,341

    • 5R35GM147170-04Department: NIH department code
      Emergent metabolic coordination and cell-to-cell signaling in bacterial biofilms
      $378,341
      award amount
  16. John F Marko

    Leads 1 award · $363,502

    • 5R01GM105847-08Department: NIH department code
      Activities of nucleoprotein complexes visualized in single-molecule experiments
      $363,502
      award amount
  17. Marc Mendillo

    Leads 1 award · $328,355

    • 5R01GM144617-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and interplay of Heat Shock Factors in growth-associated proteotoxic stresses
      $328,355
      award amount
  18. Zhiqiang Du

    Leads 1 award · $322,962

    • 5R01GM155872-02Department: 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
  19. Laura L Lackner

    Leads 1 award · $320,526

    • 5R01GM120303-09Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the molecular mechanism and function of mitochondrial tethering
      $320,526
      award amount
  20. Shelby Alexander Blythe

    Leads 1 award · $320,396

    • 5R01HD101563-05Department: NIH department code
      Defining epigenetic mechanisms for embryonic patterning
      $320,396
      award amount
  21. Xiaozhong Alec Wang

    Leads 1 award · $320,000

    • 5R01GM149076-04Department: NIH department code
      Optogenomic mapping of chromatin accessibility in live cells
      $320,000
      award amount
  22. Jenna Christensen

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM140269-04Department: NIH department code
      Evolution of Cargo Transport
      $249,000
      award amount
  23. Elizabeth Thomas Bartom

    Leads 1 award · $229,792

    • 5R50CA221848-08Department: NIH department code
      Bioinformatics Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data from Cancer Cells
      $229,792
      award amount
  24. Iris Titos Vivancos

    Leads 1 award · $192,348

    • 5K01DA058919-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of diet modulating experience-dependent amphetamine preference
      $192,348
      award amount
  25. Lillian J. Eichner

    Leads 1 award · $191,052

    • 5K22CA251636-03Department: NIH department code
      The HDAC3 pathway in LKB1-mutant lung cancer and senescence
      $191,052
      award amount
  26. Marta Iwanaszko

    Leads 1 award · $144,392

    • 5R50CA265372-04Department: NIH department code
      Computational Approaches for Studying Transcription Elongation Control in Cancer
      $144,392
      award amount
  27. Alejandro Rodriguez Gama

    Leads 1 award · $87,411

    • 5K00AG068511-05Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the role of protein self-assembly in the innate immune system
      $87,411
      award amount
  28. Olivia M Manley

    Leads 1 award · $49,941

    • 5F32AI176709-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the mechanism of virulence factor maturation in Haemophilus influenzae
      $49,941
      award amount
  29. Josiah Hiu-Yuen Wong

    Leads 1 award · $44,751

    • 1F31CA294623-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of SUV39H1 in maintaining heterochromatin architecture and identity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
      $44,751
      award amount
  30. Claire Chaikin

    Leads 1 award · $43,695

    • 1F31DK139621-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Circadian Clock Regulation of HIF1a-dependent Skeletal Muscle Metabolism during Diet-induced Obesity
      $43,695
      award amount
  31. David Russell Amici

    Leads 1 award · $30,572

    • 5F30CA264513-05Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of C16orf72 in the Cellular Stress Response Network
      $30,572
      award amount
  32. Shannon Marie Lauberth

    Leads 1 award · $10,000

    • 1R13CA306111-01Department: NIH department code
      DNA, RNA, and Chromatin Epigenetics: Disease and Development
      $10,000
      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.