Biomedical Engineering at Rice University

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

   Leads 6 awards · $3,636,418

   • 5R01DE032051-03Department: NIH department code

     Deep learning microscope for slide-free and digital histology

     Principal investigators: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (contact PI), Ann M Gillenwater, Ashok Veeraraghavan

     $687,116

     award amount
   • 5R01DE029590-05Department: NIH department code

     Precision Optical Guidance for Oral Biopsy Based on Next-Generation Hallmarks of Cancer

     Principal investigators: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (contact PI), Ann M Gillenwater, Richard Alan Schwarz

     $626,987

     award amount
   • 5R01CA252245-04Department: NIH department code

     Low Cost Tethered Capsule Endoscope with High-Resolution Digital Chromoscopy for Barrett's Screening

     Principal investigators: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (contact PI), Sharmila Anandasabapathy

     $606,559

     award amount
   • 5R01HL166413-02Department: NIH department code

     A Sample-to-Answer Point-of-Care Diagnostic for Recently Transfused Sickle Cell Anemia Patients in Low Resource Settings
     $603,735

     award amount
   • 1U01CA292741-01Department: NIH department code

     Sample-to-answer HPV DNA nucleic acid test for cervical cancer screening in Mozambique

     Principal investigators: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (contact PI), Cesaltina Ferreira Lorenzoni, Jane R Montealegre

     $585,943

     award amount
   • 5R01CA251911-05Department: NIH department code

     Low-cost mobile colposcopy and confocal imaging for global prevention of cervical cancer

     Principal investigators: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (contact PI), Kathleen Schmeler

     $526,078

     award amount

2. Kevin James McHugh

   Leads 5 awards · $1,099,992

   • 5R35GM143101-04Department: NIH department code

     Next-Generation Parenteral Drug Delivery Systems for Controlling Pharmacokinetics
     $384,181

     award amount
   • 1R25AI179580-01Department: NIH department code

     Rice-HCC ACCELERATE: Augmenting Community College Education to Leverage Experiential Research and Advance Training Equity

     Principal investigators: Kevin James McHugh (contact PI), Brian Mahon, Carolyn Aitken Nichol, Jeff Stear

     $330,450

     award amount
   • 1R21AI183245-01Department: NIH department code

     Leveraging Controlled Release to Create a Single-Injection Post-Exposure Prophylactic for Rabies
     $191,655

     award amount
   • 1R21AI185779-01Department: NIH department code

     Improving Vaccination through Biomimicry: Recapitulating the Antigen Kinetics of Native Infections using a Modular Vaccine Delivery System
     $187,577

     award amount
   • 3R35GM143101-04S1Department: NIH department code

     Next-Generation Parenteral Drug Delivery Systems for Controlling Pharmacokinetics
     $6,129

     award amount

3. Isaac Hilton

   Leads 2 awards · $861,314

   • 1R01EB036003-01Department: NIH department code

     Engineering therapeutic cellular functions using robust and highly programmable extrachromosomal genetic technologies
     $484,203

     award amount
   • 5R35GM143532-04Department: NIH department code

     Site-specific control of human gene regulation for therapeutically applicable mechanistic insights
     $377,111

     award amount

4. Gang Bao

   Leads 3 awards · $753,065

   • 5R01HL169761-02Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering unintended large gene modifications in gene editing for sickle cell disease
     $632,319

     award amount
   • 3R01HL169761-02S1Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering unintended large gene modifications in gene editing for sickle cell disease
     $78,410

     award amount
   • 3R01HL169761-01S1Department: NIH department code

     Deciphering unintended large gene modifications in gene editing for sickle cell disease
     $42,336

     award amount

5. George J Lu

   Leads 2 awards · $565,286

   • 1R35GM155015-01Department: NIH department code

     Next-generation design of acoustic reporter genes with optimal assembly
     $375,371

     award amount
   • 5R21EB033607-03Department: NIH department code

     Ultrasensitive acoustic reporter proteins with engineered rupture-resistant shells
     $189,915

     award amount

6. Jeffrey Jay Tabor

   Leads 1 award · $377,111

   • 5R01AI155586-04Department: NIH department code

     High-throughput characterization of antimicrobial peptide-PhoPQ interactions
     $377,111

     award amount

7. Michael R. King

   Leads 1 award · $364,723

   • 7R01CA256054-04Department: NIH department code

     Enabling Technology to Study Mechanosensitive and Mechanoresistant Cancer Cells in Flow
     $364,723

     award amount

8. Laura Segatori

   Leads 1 award · $332,612

   • 5R01EB030030-04Department: NIH department code

     Engineering mammalian gene activity sensor-actuator devices
     $332,612

     award amount

9. Caleb Bashor

   Leads 1 award · $332,467

   • 5R01EB032272-04Department: NIH department code

     A synthetic signaling pathway engineering platform for creating precision cell-based sense-and-response devices
     $332,467

     award amount

10. Mingjie Dai

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM140211-04Department: NIH department code

      Single-molecule protein identification and single-cell proteomics
      $249,000

      award amount

11. Jerzy Olgierd Szablowski

    Leads 1 award · $182,872

    • 5R21EB033059-03Department: NIH department code

      Noninvasive site-specific measurement of gene expression in deep tissues with secreted reporters
      $182,872

      award amount

12. Katherine M Young

    Leads 1 award · $66,444

    • 7F32CA281162-03Department: NIH department code

      Phenotypic sorting of cancer cells to study the role and control of cell stiffness in the in vivo metastatic cascade
      $66,444

      award amount

13. Sarah Libring

    Leads 1 award · $62,199

    • 7K00CA264734-05Department: NIH department code

      Characterizing CAFs in Metastasis as a Function of Breast Cancer Cell Phenotype
      $62,199

      award amount

14. Yajur Naman Maker

    Leads 1 award · $53,088

    • 5F30CA281115-02Department: NIH department code

      Low-cost integrated nucleic acid amplification testing platform for cervical cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries
      $53,088

      award amount

15. Emilie Newsham Novak

    Leads 1 award · $50,474

    • 1F99CA294262-01Department: NIH department code

      Human papillomavirus mRNA detection for assessing cervical cancer risk in resource-limited settings
      $50,474

      award amount

16. Tomasz S Tkaczyk

    Leads 1 award · $10,000

    • 1R13EB036893-01Department: NIH department code

      Translational BioPhotonics/Additive Manufacuring for Biophotonics
      $10,000

      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.

• Ann M Gillenwater

  Co-investigator on 5R01DE032051-03, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum; 5R01DE029590-05, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

• Ashok Veeraraghavan

  Co-investigator on 5R01DE032051-03, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

• Richard Alan Schwarz

  Co-investigator on 5R01DE029590-05, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

• Sharmila Anandasabapathy

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA252245-04, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Cesaltina Ferreira Lorenzoni

  Co-investigator on 1U01CA292741-01, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

• Jane R Montealegre

  Co-investigator on 1U01CA292741-01, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

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

• Kathleen Schmeler

  Co-investigator on 5R01CA251911-05, led by Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code, 1 award)
  • UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (no department on record, 1 award)

• Brian Mahon

  Co-investigator on 1R25AI179580-01, led by Kevin James McHugh

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

• Carolyn Aitken Nichol

  Co-investigator on 1R25AI179580-01, led by Kevin James McHugh

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Rice University · Miscellaneous (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Jeff Stear

  Co-investigator on 1R25AI179580-01, led by Kevin James McHugh

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