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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at Rice University

Houston, TX

Funding
$2.9M
$2,914,513
Awards
5
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
5
4 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
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 Rice University page.

Leads a grant in this department

4 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. Chong Xie

    Leads 2 awards · $1,970,272

    • 5U01NS131086-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing ultraflexible electrodes and integrated electronics for high-resolution, large-scale intraspinal recording and modulation

      Principal investigators: Chong Xie (contact PI), Lan Luan

      $1,372,424
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102917-08Department: NIH department code
      A Nanoelectronic Strategy for Reliable, Large-scale Chronic Neural Recording
      $597,848
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY036094-02, led by Lan Luan.

  2. Lan Luan

    Leads 1 award · $594,344

    • 5R01EY036094-02Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal neuronal and behavioral responses to microstimulation of LGN by ultraflexible electrodes

      Principal investigators: Lan Luan (contact PI), Chong Xie

      $594,344
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01NS131086-04, led by Chong Xie.

  3. Akane Sano

    Leads 1 award · $299,783

    • 5R01DA059925-04Department: NIH department code
      SCH: Multidimensional Data Science Approach: Measuring and Characterizing Craving and Affective Profiles in Substance Use Disorders

      Principal investigators: Akane Sano (contact PI), Nidal Moukaddam

      $299,783
      award amount

  4. Sadie Gaskins

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI203007-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering key regulators for the Mitochondrial Ethanol and Stress Response Element and elucidating their role in host defense
      $50,114
      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.

  • Nidal Moukaddam

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA059925-04, led by Akane Sano

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