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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Stanford University

Stanford, CA

Funding
$21.2M
$21,206,663
Awards
42
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
39
33 lead a grant here, 6 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 Stanford University page.

Leads a grant in this department

33 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. Scott Dixon

    Leads 3 awards · $2,390,536

    • 4R01CA285740-03Department: NIH department code
      Modulating cysteine metabolism to induce cell death in small cell lung cancer

      Principal investigators: Scott Dixon (contact PI), Julien Sage

      $1,592,358
      award amount
    • 5R01CA272485-04Department: NIH department code
      Triggering a New Cancer Cell Death Mechanism in Sarcoma
      $457,726
      award amount
    • 5R01GM122923-09Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Regulation of Ferroptosis
      $340,452
      award amount

  2. Jan M Skotheim

    Leads 3 awards · $2,107,431

    • 5P01CA254867-05Department: NIH department code
      Determining and targeting mechanisms controlling cancer cell division

      Principal investigators: Jan M Skotheim (contact PI), Julien Sage (contact PI), Peter Kent Jackson (contact PI), Seth Michael Rubin (contact PI)

      $1,413,001
      award amount
    • 5R35GM134858-07Department: NIH department code
      Determining how cell growth triggers cell division
      $606,722
      award amount
    • 3P01CA254867-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Determining and targeting mechanisms controlling cancer cell division

      Principal investigators: Jan M Skotheim (contact PI), Seth Michael Rubin

      $87,708
      award amount

  3. Ashby J. Morrison

    Leads 1 award · $1,619,014

    • 5T32GM154663-02Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Program
      $1,619,014
      award amount

  4. Ron R Kopito

    Leads 3 awards · $1,594,745

    • 5R01HL172845-02Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacogenomic discovery of therapeutic targets for corrector-refractory cystic fibrosis
      $727,066
      award amount
    • 5R01GM148477-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of UFMylation in ribosome quality control at the ER
      $582,648
      award amount
    • 1R35GM164167-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of UFMylation in ribosome quality control
      $285,031
      award amount

  5. Joseph D Puglisi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,513,753

    • 5R35GM145306-05Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of Translation
      $766,987
      award amount
    • 5R01AG064690-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining modifiers and mechanisms of RAN translation

      Principal investigators: Joseph D Puglisi (contact PI), Aaron D. Gitler

      $746,766
      award amount

  6. Liqun Luo

    Leads 3 awards · $1,469,192

    • 4R01NS131987-02Department: NIH department code
      Deconstructing the sertonin system in the mouse brain

      Principal investigators: Liqun Luo (contact PI), Scott Warren Linderman

      $629,423
      award amount
    • 5R01NS050835-19Department: NIH department code
      Cell-cell communications in neural circuit assembly
      $446,269
      award amount
    • 5R01DC005982-24Department: NIH department code
      Assembly of the Central Olfactory Networks in Drosophila
      $393,500
      award amount

  7. Julien Sage

    Leads 1 award · $1,413,001

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01CA285740-03, led by Scott Dixon.

  8. Peter Kent Jackson

    Leads 1 award · $1,413,001

  9. Seth Michael Rubin

    Leads 1 award · $1,413,001

    Also a principal investigator on 3P01CA254867-04S1, led by Jan M Skotheim.

  10. Xiaoke Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,221,492

    • 5R01DA059602-04Department: NIH department code
      Multi-modal profiling of spatially resolved cell types mediating opioid withdrawal

      Principal investigators: Xiaoke Chen (contact PI), Bogdan Bintu, Quan Zhu

      $773,306
      award amount
    • 5R01NS129834-04Department: NIH department code
      Circuitry and Molecular Mechanisms for Descending Pain Facilitation
      $448,186
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R34NS143678-01, led by Lauren A O'Connell.

  11. Jessica Lynn Feldman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,204,085

    • 1R01DK144214-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of E-cadherin and PAR-3 in epithelial symmetry breaking and repair
      $611,189
      award amount
    • 5R35GM153310-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms controlling microtubule organization during cell differentiation
      $592,896
      award amount

  12. Lauren A O'Connell

    Leads 2 awards · $930,388

    • 5R01HD110514-04Department: NIH department code
      Dopamine regulation of infant perceptual motor development and communication
      $579,782
      award amount
    • 1R34NS143678-01Department: NIH department code
      Building brain atlas and viral tools for investigating neural circuits in modern terrestrial frogs

      Principal investigators: Lauren A O'Connell (contact PI), Xiaoke Chen

      $350,606
      award amount

  13. Dmitri Petrov

    Leads 1 award · $720,510

    • 2R35GM118165-11Department: NIH department code
      Genomics of rapid adaptation in the lab and in the wild
      $720,510
      award amount

  14. Or P. Gozani

    Leads 1 award · $712,349

    • 2R35GM139569-06Department: NIH department code
      Function of Protein Methylation in Chromatin and Signaling Regulation
      $712,349
      award amount

  15. Mary Red-Horse

    Leads 1 award · $673,043

    • 2R01HL128503-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanotransduction and transcriptional regulation during artery development
      $673,043
      award amount

  16. Martha S. Cyert

    Leads 1 award · $602,751

    • 5R35GM136243-07Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating calcineurin signaling mechanisms at membranes
      $602,751
      award amount

  17. Michael Levitt

    Leads 1 award · $558,519

    • 5R35GM122543-09Department: NIH department code
      Emergent Properties of Complex Systems: From Atoms to Macromolecules; from Humans to Societies
      $558,519
      award amount

  18. Noah Rosenberg

    Leads 1 award · $519,607

  19. Judith Frydman

    Leads 1 award · $485,977

    • 5R01GM056433-27Department: NIH department code
      Protein Folding in the Eukaryotic Cytosol
      $485,977
      award amount

  20. Theodore S Jardetzky

    Leads 1 award · $463,198

    • 5R01AI115469-09Department: NIH department code
      Accelerated dissociation of IgE receptor complexes
      $463,198
      award amount

  21. Erin Mordecai

    Leads 1 award · $423,500

    • 5R35GM133439-07Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging environmental drivers to predict vector-borne disease transmission
      $423,500
      award amount

  22. Molly Schumer

    Leads 1 award · $416,880

    • 5R35GM133774-08Department: NIH department code
      The population genomics of hybridization: from genetic incompatibilities to genome evolution
      $416,880
      award amount

  23. Kang Shen

    Leads 1 award · $385,000

    • 5R01NS082208-12Department: NIH department code
      Patterning dendritic branches with environmental and neuronal surface molecules
      $385,000
      award amount

  24. Jonas B Cremer

    Leads 1 award · $308,800

    • 5R01GM149611-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of cell-size control in Gram-negative bacteria
      $308,800
      award amount

  25. Shannon Yan

    Leads 1 award · $304,000

    • 1R35GM166180-01Department: NIH department code
      Visualizing the hidden physical cues: Probing Live Cell Membrane Tension Dynamics in Health and Disease
      $304,000
      award amount

  26. Haiqing Xu

    Leads 1 award · $135,774

    • 5K99CA299411-02Department: NIH department code
      Reinvigorating the overdominant model of tumor suppression
      $135,774
      award amount

  27. Masato Ogishi

    Leads 1 award · $103,162

    • 5K00CA274708-05Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and immunological dissection of coinhibitory crosstalks between human T cells and cancer cells
      $103,162
      award amount

  28. Kelsie Elizabeth Hunnicutt

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32GM163371-01Department: NIH department code
      The repeated evolution of hybrid melanoma across Xiphophorus fish
      $76,780
      award amount

  29. Rosamaria Yvette Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32GM165031-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Mechanisms and Signaling by an S-acylated isoform of Calcineurin
      $76,300
      award amount

  30. Jim Lu Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HL182219-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular basis of mitochondrial calcium extrusion - a key target in ischemic heart disease
      $50,114
      award amount

  31. Maiya Suzane Huisoon Yu

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HL180032-02Department: NIH department code
      Parsing molecular determinants of asymmetry in planar cell polarity signaling
      $50,114
      award amount

  32. Josh Carter

    Leads 1 award · $46,002

    • 5F30AI176917-03Department: NIH department code
      Development and characterization of germline-targeted nanoparticle immunogens toward a novel HIV Env epitope
      $46,002
      award amount

  33. Jeffrey Naftaly

    Leads 1 award · $43,647

    • 5F31HL178171-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring Functional Divergence in Human and Chimpanzee Arteries: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
      $43,647
      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.