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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dermatology at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$5.4M
$5,446,612
Awards
10
FY2026 NIH awards in Dermatology
Principal investigators
10
8 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
of 35 · 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 Dermatology row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

8 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. Han Peng

    Leads 2 awards · $1,878,067

    • 1R01EY037653-01Department: NIH department code
      Ocular mustard keratopathy elicits induced autophagy, which is detrimental to the cornea
      $1,413,728
      award amount
    • 5R01EY028560-08Department: NIH department code
      The Roles of Autophagy in Limbal/Corneal Epithelia
      $464,339
      award amount

  2. I. Caroline Le Poole

    Leads 3 awards · $1,769,379

    • 5P30AR075049-08Department: NIH department code
      Northwestern University Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center

      Principal investigators: Amy S Paller (contact PI), I. Caroline Le Poole (contact PI), Irina Budunova (contact PI), Kathleen Janee Green (contact PI)

      $710,832
      award amount
    • 5R01HL165841-04Department: NIH department code
      Time to ATTAC: Adoptive Transfer of T cells Against gp100+ Cells to treat LAM

      Principal investigators: I. Caroline Le Poole (contact PI), Michael I. Nishimura

      $575,832
      award amount
    • 5R01CA260064-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Lymphomagenesis of Skin Resident Gamma Delta T cells
      $482,715
      award amount

  3. Sergey M Troyanovsky

    Leads 2 awards · $894,961

    • 5R01GM148571-04Department: NIH department code
      Intercellular junctions and cell polarity
      $455,770
      award amount
    • 5R01AR070166-10Department: NIH department code
      Cadherin Clusters and actin filaments
      $439,191
      award amount

  4. Amy S Paller

    Leads 2 awards · $872,702

    • 5P30AR075049-08Department: NIH department code
      Northwestern University Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center

      Principal investigators: Amy S Paller (contact PI), I. Caroline Le Poole (contact PI), Irina Budunova (contact PI), Kathleen Janee Green (contact PI)

      $710,832
      award amount
    • 5T32AR060710-14Department: NIH department code
      Post Graduate Program in Cutaneous Biology
      $161,870
      award amount

  5. Irina Budunova

    Leads 1 award · $710,832

  6. Kathleen Janee Green

    Leads 1 award · $710,832

  7. Kurt Lu

    Leads 1 award · $687,221

    • 4UH3AR084667-03Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic Melanin for Accelerating Wound Repair

      Principal investigators: Kurt Lu (contact PI), Nathan Claude Gianneschi

      $687,221
      award amount

  8. Kathleen Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30CA288003-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating mechanisms of CARD11 mutants in enhanced anti-tumor immunity and T cell fitness (For Kathleen Cheng)
      $55,114
      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.

  • Nathan Claude Gianneschi

    Co-investigator on 4UH3AR084667-03, led by Kurt Lu

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Michael I. Nishimura

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL165841-04, led by I. Caroline Le Poole

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.