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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Rutgers University

Newark, NJ

Funding
$13.1M
$13,126,726
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
19
17 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
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 Biology row of the Rutgers University page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Stephen K Burley

    Leads 1 award · $3,880,000

    • 5R01GM157729-03Department: NIH department code
      PDB Management by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics
      $3,880,000
      award amount
  2. Wei-Xing Zong

    Leads 2 awards · $2,831,981

    • 4R01CA224550-08Department: NIH department code
      Glutamine synthetase in beta-catenin driven hepatocellular carcinoma
      $1,478,990
      award amount
    • 4R01CA286043-03Department: NIH department code
      Defective urea cycle promotes oncogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma
      $1,352,991
      award amount
  3. Jean-Pierre Etchegaray

    Leads 1 award · $1,066,174

    • 4R01DK139790-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of intestinal TET3-mediated DNA oxidation and transcriptional regulation

      Principal investigators: Jean-Pierre Etchegaray (contact PI), Nan Gao

      $1,066,174
      award amount
  4. Haesun A Kim

    Leads 2 awards · $628,000

    • 1R21NS147269-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting TFEB to promote bridge Schwann cell function in peripheral nerve gap repair
      $431,750
      award amount
    • 5R21NS140995-02Department: NIH department code
      Unveiling CTL1 as the Key Choline Transporter in Oligodendrocytes: Implication for Myelin Formation and Maintenance
      $196,250
      award amount
  5. Jason T Kaelber

    Leads 1 award · $599,527

    • 5R01AI190168-02Department: NIH department code
      Cryogenic nanoimaging of AAV infection and packaging.
      $599,527
      award amount
  6. Brian Francis Corbett

    Leads 1 award · $558,051

    • 1R15MH143199-01Department: NIH department code
      AREA: Investigating the effects of stress-induced noradrenergic neurotransmission of inflammatory transcription in the hippocampus
      $558,051
      award amount
  7. Pabitra K. Sahoo

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R35GM165886-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Determinants of Physiological Stress Granule Homeostasis and Function.
      $431,750
      award amount
  8. Alexandra M. Deaconescu

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R35GM144124-05Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS AND MACROMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS UNDERLYING CELLULAR RESPONSES TO STRESS SIGNALS
      $392,500
      award amount
  9. Matthew Joseph McBride

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R35GM154956-03Department: NIH department code
      Homeostasis of one-carbon metabolism to support epigenetic methylation
      $392,500
      award amount
    • 5R35GM150799-04Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial inorganic polyphosphate in the mammalian stress response.
      $391,236
      award amount
  10. Xingyun Qi

    Leads 1 award · $391,236

    • 5R35GM151096-04Department: NIH department code
      Osmotic Regulation of a Peptide Ligand-Mediated Signaling
      $391,236
      award amount
  11. Kwangwon Lee

    Leads 1 award · $367,034

    • 5T34GM153609-03Department: NIH department code
      U-RISE at Rutgers University - Camden

      Principal investigators: Kwangwon Lee (contact PI), Nathan Thomas Fried

      $367,034
      award amount
  12. Ching-On Wong

    Leads 1 award · $343,438

    • 5R01AG081379-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of TTYH1 in mobilizing lipids and ApoE in glia: Implications for brain aging and neurodegeneration
      $343,438
      award amount
  13. Tai-Sung Lee

    Leads 1 award · $314,000

    • 5R01GM149874-04Department: NIH department code
      A next-generation extendable simulation environment for affordable, accurate, and efficient free energy simulations
      $314,000
      award amount
  14. Lanjing Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $288,758

    • 4R37CA277812-05Department: NIH department code
      Screening and confirmatory machine learning for explainable modeling of non-cancer deaths in cancer patients
      $288,758
      award amount
  15. Andrey Grigoriev

    Leads 1 award · $157,000

    • 5R16GM158776-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational analysis of transcriptome rearrangements in SARS-CoV-2
      $157,000
      award amount
  16. Cuauhtemoc Ulises Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $93,541

    • 4K00NS130928-03Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic Organization and Modulation of Kainate Receptors: Investigating the Structure, Dynamics, and Function in the Context of Trans-Synaptic Junctions
      $93,541
      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.

  • Nan Gao

    Co-investigator on 4R01DK139790-03, led by Jean-Pierre Etchegaray

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Nathan Thomas Fried

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM153609-03, led by Kwangwon Lee

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

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