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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$14.6M
$14,607,492
Awards
37
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
24
21 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#18
of 90 · 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 Pathology row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Rui Yi

    Leads 4 awards · $1,975,644

    • 1R01AG100048-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of cell mechanics in regulating hair follicle stem cells across homeostasis and aging
      $559,795
      award amount
    • 5R01AR071435-10Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional regulation of skin stem cells and their niche
      $528,644
      award amount
    • 5R01HD107841-05Department: NIH department code
      Modeling p63-associated human birth defects with systems developmental biology approaches
      $463,600
      award amount
    • 5R01AR081103-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigate MOF regulated epigenetic mechanisms of skin development
      $423,605
      award amount

  2. Kathleen Janee Green

    Leads 4 awards · $1,894,776

    • 5R01CA228196-08Department: NIH department code
      Role of Desmoglein 1 in Keratinocyte-Melanocyte Communication and Melanoma
      $587,558
      award amount
    • 2R01AR043380-31Department: NIH department code
      Desmoplakin Assembly and Function in Epidermis
      $548,918
      award amount
    • 5R01AR041836-34Department: NIH department code
      Function of Desmoglein 1/Pemphigus Foliaceus Antigen
      $480,395
      award amount
    • 5T32CA009560-40Department: NIH department code
      Carcinogenesis Training Program
      $277,905
      award amount

  3. Peng Ji

    Leads 3 awards · $1,682,045

    • 1R01DK142814-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering erythroblastic islands in mice and humans during development and stress
      $679,530
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169507-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting gasdermin D to treat myelodysplastic syndromes
      $527,987
      award amount
    • 5R01DK138205-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional roles of DDX41 in the homeostasis of G quadruplexes in erythropoiesis
      $474,528
      award amount

  4. Weiguo Cui

    Leads 4 awards · $1,481,054

    • 5R01AI189723-02Department: NIH department code
      TCR signaling regulated T cell exhaustion in response to chronic viral infection
      $627,462
      award amount
    • 5R01AI148403-07Department: NIH department code
      Phenotypic, Functional and Transcriptional Heterogeneity in T Cell Exhaustion
      $463,839
      award amount
    • 5R21AI182804-02Department: NIH department code
      Pim1 regulates metabolic adaptation of effector CD8 cells during chronic viral infection
      $235,359
      award amount
    • 1R21AI199345-01Department: NIH department code
      Developing a novel technology for studying T cell differentiation in vivo
      $154,394
      award amount

  5. Edward Benjamin Thorp

    Leads 2 awards · $1,375,385

    • 5R35HL177401-02Department: NIH department code
      Phagocyte Crosstalk in the Balance of Inflammation & Cardiac Disease
      $1,055,138
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007476-29Department: NIH department code
      Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Training Program
      $320,247
      award amount

  6. Deyu Fang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,302,339

    • 1R01CA309466-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of FoxP3-specific Degraders for Antitumor Immunotherapy

      Principal investigators: Deyu Fang (contact PI), Chad A. Mirkin

      $656,267
      award amount
    • 5R01CA288387-02Department: NIH department code
      Develop a novel therapy with immuno- and onco-targeting dual efficacies to treat the triple negative breast cancer

      Principal investigators: Deyu Fang (contact PI), Huiping Liu

      $646,072
      award amount

  7. Ronen Sumagin

    Leads 2 awards · $908,712

    • 5R01DK135620-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Neutrophil Specific Mechanisms for Resistance to Biologics in Ulcerative Colitis

      Principal investigators: Ronen Sumagin (contact PI), Parambir Singh Dulai

      $668,712
      award amount
    • 5R21AI187459-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting microRNAs to modulate neutrophil trafficking and improve resolution of gut inflammation.
      $240,000
      award amount

  8. Jeffery A Goldstein

    Leads 2 awards · $881,836

    • 5R01HD116699-02Department: NIH department code
      Building machine learning models to identify placental causes of stillbirth
      $547,187
      award amount
    • 1R21AI199432-01Department: NIH department code
      Immature but Not Inert: Measuring Responsiveness of the Fetal Adaptive Immune System
      $334,649
      award amount

  9. Christine R Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $842,305

    • 1R01CA315082-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrated Molecular Circuits Underlying Leukemogenesis
      $593,307
      award amount
    • 7R00HL165103-05Department: NIH department code
      Integration of HSC Stress Responses and Disease Progression by DNMT3A Mutations
      $248,998
      award amount

  10. William A Muller

    Leads 1 award · $836,628

    • 5R35HL155652-06Department: NIH department code
      Transendothelial Migration of Leukocytes: Developing New Paradigms in Health and Disease
      $836,628
      award amount

  11. Daniel J Brat

    Leads 1 award · $496,357

    • 1R01CA295560-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Disrupting the Peri-necrotic Engine of Immunosuppression in Glioblastoma
      $496,357
      award amount

  12. Samuel Weinberg

    Leads 1 award · $214,329

    • 1R21NS149367-01Department: NIH department code
      Infection driven inflammation as a novel driver of neurodegeneration in mitochondrial disease
      $214,329
      award amount

  13. Waihay J Wong

    Leads 1 award · $165,348

    • 5K08HL171879-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of NLRP3 inflammasome in clonal hematopoiesis
      $165,348
      award amount

  14. Johanna Melo-Cardenas

    Leads 1 award · $151,513

    • 5K01DK138265-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of DCAF7 on hematopoietic stem cell maintenance
      $151,513
      award amount

  15. Insup Choi

    Leads 1 award · $125,361

    • 5K01AG078442-04Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Autophagy in Microglial Senescence and Parkinsons Disease
      $125,361
      award amount

  16. Brieanna Labeth Jarrell

    Leads 1 award · $46,329

    • 5F31AR086611-02Department: NIH department code
      Epidermal Desmosomes Connect Stratification and Inflammation through Actin Remodeling
      $46,329
      award amount

  17. Christopher M Stephens

    Leads 1 award · $45,887

    • 5F31AR085379-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and genomic analysis of electron transport chain Complex II functions in mammalian skin development
      $45,887
      award amount

  18. Teresa Chou

    Leads 1 award · $45,663

    • 1F30HD122394-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the spatial and functional response of placental macrophages to Group B Streptococcus infection
      $45,663
      award amount

  19. Ashley M Bauer

    Leads 1 award · $45,327

    • 1F31AI197568-01Department: NIH department code
      IL-10 and PD-1 cooperate to limit terminal differentiation of CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection
      $45,327
      award amount

  20. Jenny Pokorny

    Leads 1 award · $45,327

    • 5F31CA281256-03Department: NIH department code
      Paracrine signaling from keratinocytes establishes a pro-melanoma environment
      $45,327
      award amount

  21. Meital Gewirtz

    Leads 1 award · $45,327

    • 1F31AI194552-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of neutrophils in inflammation and vascular remodeling in psoriasis
      $45,327
      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.