FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
- 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the Northwestern University page.
Leads a grant in this department
9 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Vadim Backman
Leads 3 awards · $2,906,783
- 5U54CA268084-05Department: NIH department codeNorthwestern University Center for Chromatin NanoImaging in Cancer (NU-CCNIC)
Principal investigators: Daniela E Matei (contact PI), Hao F Zhang (contact PI), Vadim Backman (contact PI)
$1,590,459award amount - 7R01CA225002-09Department: NIH department codeTranslating buccal nanocytology for lung cancer screening into clinical practice
Principal investigators: Vadim Backman (contact PI), Hariharan Subramanian
$667,591award amount - 1R01CA303254-01A1Department: NIH department codeNanoscale Spectroscopy for Early Cancer Detection and Phenotypic Analysis
Principal investigators: Vadim Backman (contact PI), Rajesh N Keswani
$648,733award amount
Daniela E Matei
Leads 1 award · $1,590,459
- 5U54CA268084-05Department: NIH department codeNorthwestern University Center for Chromatin NanoImaging in Cancer (NU-CCNIC)
Principal investigators: Daniela E Matei (contact PI), Hao F Zhang (contact PI), Vadim Backman (contact PI)
$1,590,459award amount
Hao F Zhang
Leads 1 award · $1,590,459
- 5U54CA268084-05Department: NIH department codeNorthwestern University Center for Chromatin NanoImaging in Cancer (NU-CCNIC)
Principal investigators: Daniela E Matei (contact PI), Hao F Zhang (contact PI), Vadim Backman (contact PI)
$1,590,459award amount
Guillermo Antonio Ameer
Leads 2 awards · $1,532,483
- 7R01HL141933-07Department: NIH department codeLow-Profile 3D-Printed Radiopaque Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds
Principal investigators: Guillermo Antonio Ameer (contact PI), Cheng Sun
$1,312,171award amount - 2T32EB031527-06Department: NIH department codeRegenerative Engineering Training Program (RE-Training)$220,312award amount
Eric Jon Perreault
Leads 2 awards · $627,848
- 7R01AR071162-10Department: NIH department codeNoninvasive tools for assessing muscle structure and function$617,848award amount
- 5R13HD115388-03Department: NIH department codeSupport for the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology Congress$10,000award amount
Sally Maureen McFall
Leads 1 award · $389,230
- 7U01CA292771-03Department: NIH department codeActive HCV diagnosis to support prevention of HCC in LMICs
Principal investigators: Sally Maureen McFall (contact PI), Claudia A Hawkins
$389,230award amount
Levi John Hargrove
Leads 1 award · $278,089
- 7T32HD007418-35Department: NIH department codePathophysiology and Rehabilitation of Neural Dysfunction$278,089award amount
Colin Lee Hisey
Leads 1 award · $249,000
- 7R00EB033857-05Department: NIH department codeMachine Learning-enabled Classification of Extracellular Vesicles Using Nanoplasmonic Microfluidics$249,000award amount
Marco Gallio
Leads 1 award · $196,573
- 7R21EY036651-03Department: NIH department codeMolecular design for circuit engineering in the Drosophila brain
Principal investigators: Marco Gallio (contact PI), Engin Ozkan
$196,573award 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.
Cheng Sun
Co-investigator on 7R01HL141933-07, led by Guillermo Antonio Ameer
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- Northwestern University · Engineering (NIH department code, 1 award)
Hariharan Subramanian
Co-investigator on 7R01CA225002-09, led by Vadim Backman
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Rajesh N Keswani
Co-investigator on 1R01CA303254-01A1, led by Vadim Backman
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Claudia A Hawkins
Co-investigator on 7U01CA292771-03, led by Sally Maureen McFall
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Northwestern University · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Engin Ozkan
Co-investigator on 7R21EY036651-03, led by Marco Gallio
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Chicago · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 2 awards)