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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

Funding
$12.8M
$12,787,858
Awards
28
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
27
24 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#25
of 136 · 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 Princeton University page.

Leads a grant in this department

24 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. Zemer Gitai

    Leads 1 award · $3,444,000

    • 4DP1AI190418-03Department: NIH department code
      A single-cell approach to developing non-traditional antibiotics
      $3,444,000
      award amount

  2. Eszter Posfai

    Leads 3 awards · $1,379,742

    • 5R01HD110577-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of epiblast and primitive endoderm segregation
      $480,362
      award amount
    • 5R01HD116856-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of female germline cyst formation and oocyte selection in mice
      $458,236
      award amount
    • 5R01HD107026-05Department: NIH department code
      Geometric and mechanical control of developmental Yap signaling
      $441,144
      award amount

  3. Ricardo Mallarino

    Leads 2 awards · $1,068,779

    • 1R01AR085664-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The developmental basis of gliding membrane morphogenesis

      Principal investigators: Ricardo Mallarino (contact PI), Maksim V Plikus

      $595,229
      award amount
    • 5R35GM133758-07Department: NIH department code
      Using naturally evolved phenotypic variation to decipher the positional regulatory code of mammalian skin
      $473,550
      award amount

  4. Ileana M. Cristea

    Leads 1 award · $910,011

    • 5T32GM148739-04Department: NIH department code
      Methods and Logic in Molecular Biology Training Program
      $910,011
      award amount

  5. Mala Murthy

    Leads 1 award · $739,450

    • 5R35NS111580-08Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Neural Mechanisms that Flexibly Link Sensory Processing to Behavior
      $739,450
      award amount

  6. Elizabeth R Gavis

    Leads 1 award · $705,722

    • 5R35GM126967-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of mRNA localization and translational control in Drosophila development
      $705,722
      award amount

  7. Cameron Amadeus Myhrvold

    Leads 1 award · $597,419

    • 1R01EB037370-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Scalable and deployable multiplexed nucleic acid detection using Cas13
      $597,419
      award amount

  8. Ned S Wingreen

    Leads 1 award · $567,394

    • 5R35GM156427-02Department: NIH department code
      Learning biophysical principles ofcellular organization
      $567,394
      award amount

  9. Alexander Ploss

    Leads 2 awards · $547,820

  10. Kailin Riley Mesa

    Leads 1 award · $492,000

    • 1DP2AI201002-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the immune-stem cell programs that drive multi-tissue regeneration in mammals
      $492,000
      award amount

  11. Martin Wühr

    Leads 1 award · $442,800

    • 5R35GM128813-09Department: NIH department code
      Development of New Proteomics Technology and its Application to Study Cellular Organization
      $442,800
      award amount

  12. Danelle N Devenport

    Leads 1 award · $431,217

    • 5R01AR068320-09Department: NIH department code
      Cell cycle control of cell polarity and fate in epidermal morphogenesis
      $431,217
      award amount

  13. Tatiana Engel

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 1R01AT013689-01Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Dynamics of inter-area interactions during sleep and psychedelic states
      $410,000
      award amount

  14. Jared E Toettcher

    Leads 1 award · $369,000

    • 1R35GM164185-01Department: NIH department code
      Optogenetics and biosensors for dissecting cellular decision-making
      $369,000
      award amount

  15. Titas Sengupta

    Leads 1 award · $137,484

    • 1K99AG103160-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the epigenetic regulation of age-related memory decline
      $137,484
      award amount

  16. Xiao Li

    Leads 1 award · $127,145

    • 5K99NS138574-02Department: NIH department code
      Long-Range Regulatory Interactions in the Drosophila Brain.
      $127,145
      award amount

  17. Rebecca Ann Jones

    Leads 1 award · $109,987

    • 1K99AR087986-01Department: NIH department code
      Melanoblast migration as a new paradigm for deciphering the mechanisms of basement membrane crossing
      $109,987
      award amount

  18. Soonwoo Hong

    Leads 1 award · $79,780

    • 1F32AI200189-01Department: NIH department code
      AI-guided CRISPR-based TB drug-resistance test with optimized crRNAs and engineered Cas enzymes
      $79,780
      award amount

  19. Elizabeth McManus

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30NS137764-03Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating spatiotemporal control of mRNA in Drosophila morphogenesis using Cas13-based techniques
      $55,114
      award amount

  20. Billie Reneker

    Leads 1 award · $36,538

    • 5F31GM155995-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of the Adaptor Protein Enkurin in Left-Right Patterning- a Promising Link Between Polycystin-2 and Calcium Signaling
      $36,538
      award amount

  21. Argit Marishta

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 5F30GM154411-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of protein dynamics in Drosophila embryos' ectoderm germ layer
      $34,114
      award amount

  22. Brooke K Phillips

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 5F30AR084861-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Mechanism of Hair Follicle Placode Induction : A novel approach to understanding establishment of the periodic pattern
      $34,114
      award amount

  23. Sabrina Solley

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 5F31HD113443-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the interpretation and generation of Erk signaling dynamics using high-throughput genetics
      $34,114
      award amount

  24. Tina Xiaotian Li

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 1F31AI202953-01Department: NIH department code
      Combatting Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii with Chemical Synthetic Lethality
      $34,114
      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.