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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Rice University

Houston, TX

Funding
$5.2M
$5,235,374
Awards
11
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
17
10 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#68
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 Rice University page.

Leads a grant in this department

10 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. Yang Gao

    Leads 2 awards · $2,947,611

    • 1R01AI198602-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of ADAR1-Driven RNA Editing in Immune Modulation

      Principal investigators: Yang Gao (contact PI), Sua Myong, Yi-Lan Weng

      $2,538,587
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196666-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterization and Structure-guided Targeting of Plasmodium falciparum Apicoplast DNA Polymerase

      Principal investigators: Yang Gao (contact PI), Josh Ryan Beck, Scott W. Nelson

      $409,024
      award amount

  2. Natasha Kirienko

    Leads 1 award · $457,319

    • 5R35GM129294-08Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of mitochondrial surveillance
      $457,319
      award amount

  3. Yousif Shamoo

    Leads 1 award · $422,698

    • 1R21AI190686-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Exploring how the innate immune system shapes the adaptation of emergent and pre-emergent opportunistic pathogens
      $422,698
      award amount

  4. Bonnie Bartel

    Leads 1 award · $405,420

    • 5R35GM130338-08Department: NIH department code
      Peroxisome biogenesis, dynamics, and degradation
      $405,420
      award amount

  5. Theresa Berens Loveless

    Leads 1 award · $405,251

    • 1R35GM166390-01Department: NIH department code
      Broad-spectrum DNA recording to enable the next generation of developmental biology
      $405,251
      award amount

  6. Cameron Glasscock

    Leads 1 award · $246,208

    • 1R21EB039470-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting repeat expansion instability with de novo DNA slip-out binding proteins
      $246,208
      award amount

  7. Yizhi Jane Tao

    Leads 1 award · $234,750

    • 1R21AI196827-01A1Department: NIH department code
      FSHR-1 as a key receptor mediating Orsay virus entry in C. elegans
      $234,750
      award amount

  8. Adrian Lankenau Ahumada

    Leads 1 award · $53,114

    • 1F31NS147837-01Department: NIH department code
      Enabling Extended Widefield Voltage Imaging with Low Phototoxicity
      $53,114
      award amount

  9. Nathan Tharp

    Leads 1 award · $33,003

    • 5F31GM150269-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating PEX11 roles in shaping peroxisome architecture and dynamics
      $33,003
      award amount

  10. Harini Iyer

    Leads 1 award · $30,000

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.