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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$2.2M
$2,180,061
Awards
5
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
11
5 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Engineering row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

5 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. Derk Joester

    Leads 1 award · $633,074

  2. Joshua Nathaniel Leonard

    Leads 1 award · $585,538

    • 5R01EB026510-08Department: NIH department code
      Design-driven engineering of robust mammalian sense-and-respond functions: from parts to programs

      Principal investigators: Joshua Nathaniel Leonard (contact PI), Neda Bagheri, Niall Mangan

      $585,538
      award amount
  3. Julius Beau Lucks

    Leads 1 award · $382,751

    • 1R35GM161278-01Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic RNA Folding and Function
      $382,751
      award amount
  4. Chad A. Mirkin

    Leads 1 award · $343,886

    • 7R01CA257926-06Department: NIH department code
      Innovative Research for Cancer Nanotechnology (IRCN) for Enhancing Melanoma-specific Immune Responses by the Rational Design of Spherical Nucleic Acids

      Principal investigators: Chad A. Mirkin (contact PI), Bin Zhang

      $343,886
      award amount
  5. Thomas Stoeger

    Leads 1 award · $234,812

    • 5R00AG068544-05Department: NIH department code
      Integrative Multi-Scale Systems Analysis of Gene-Expression-Driven Aging Morbidity
      $234,812
      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.

  • James Rondinelli

    Co-investigator on 1R01DE034729-01A1, led by Derk Joester

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

  • Peter W. Voorhees

    Co-investigator on 1R01DE034729-01A1, led by Derk Joester

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

  • Stuart R Stock

    Co-investigator on 1R01DE034729-01A1, led by Derk Joester

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

  • Neda Bagheri

    Co-investigator on 5R01EB026510-08, led by Joshua Nathaniel Leonard

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

  • Niall Mangan

    Co-investigator on 5R01EB026510-08, led by Joshua Nathaniel Leonard

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

  • Bin Zhang

    Co-investigator on 7R01CA257926-06, led by Chad A. Mirkin

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads