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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$16.2M
$16,222,693
Awards
29
FY2025 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
23
18 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 135 · 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 Thomas Jefferson University page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Ya-Ming Hou

    Leads 3 awards · $4,752,909

    • 2R35GM134931-06Department: NIH department code
      tRNA in codon usage
      $2,730,000
      award amount
    • 5R01AI164490-05Department: NIH department code
      TrmD-targeting actinobacterial natural products as next generation antibiotics

      Principal investigators: Ya-Ming Hou (contact PI), Ben Shen

      $1,179,849
      award amount
    • 5R01HG013302-02Department: NIH department code
      Twice reading of RNA by direct nanopore sequencing
      $843,060
      award amount

  2. Richard T Pomerantz

    Leads 3 awards · $2,047,719

    • 5R35GM152198-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Mechanisms and Regulation of Mammalian Double-Strand Break Repair
      $741,972
      award amount
    • 5R01CA283323-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Best-in-Class Pol-Theta Inhibitors

      Principal investigators: Richard T Pomerantz (contact PI), Wayne E Childers

      $682,151
      award amount
    • 5R01CA279364-02Department: NIH department code
      A Next-Generation Nucleoside Prodrug for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

      Principal investigators: Richard T Pomerantz (contact PI), Christine M. Eischen

      $623,596
      award amount

  3. Diane E Merry

    Leads 3 awards · $1,467,907

    • 5R37NS108114-07Department: NIH department code
      The role of the AR interactome in SBMA
      $612,547
      award amount
    • 1R21NS142744-01Department: NIH department code
      Somatic instability of CAG repeats in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
      $429,000
      award amount
    • 5T32GM144302-04Department: NIH department code
      Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences

      Principal investigators: Diane E Merry (contact PI), Jeffrey L Benovic

      $426,360
      award amount

  4. Erik Debler

    Leads 1 award · $1,057,830

    • 4R01AI165840-04Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin Biology of the African Trypanosome
      $1,057,830
      award amount

  5. Yohei Kirino

    Leads 2 awards · $1,055,956

    • 5R01HL175371-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of tRNA- and rRNA-derived RNAs in acute lung injury

      Principal investigators: Yohei Kirino (contact PI), Deepak A Deshpande

      $626,956
      award amount
    • 1R35GM156496-01Department: NIH department code
      Biogenesis and function of cyclic phosphate-containing RNAs
      $429,000
      award amount

  6. Christine M. Eischen

    Leads 2 awards · $886,130

    • 5R01DE033025-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating a new vulnerability in oral squamous cell carcinoma
      $521,948
      award amount
    • 5R01CA236853-06Department: NIH department code
      BCLW in lymphoma survival and resistance to targeted BCL2 family therapies
      $364,182
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA279364-02, led by Richard T Pomerantz.

  7. Anna Pluciennik

    Leads 2 awards · $702,000

    • 5R01NS118082-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of triplet repeat instability in Huntington's disease
      $390,000
      award amount
    • 5R01GM144553-03Department: NIH department code
      Crosstalk between DNA repair pathways in repeat instability
      $312,000
      award amount

  8. Michael Soniat

    Leads 2 awards · $634,019

    • 1R35GM156956-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the mechanisms underlying DNA double-strand break repair
      $390,000
      award amount
    • 5R00AG066938-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of Werner syndrome helicase in genome stability and aging
      $244,019
      award amount

  9. Qiaoli Li

    Leads 2 awards · $596,200

    • 5R01DK136992-02Department: NIH department code
      Hypercalciuria and Abnormal Bone in the Genetic Hypercalciuric Stone-Forming Rats

      Principal investigators: Qiaoli Li (contact PI), David A Bushinsky

      $410,872
      award amount
    • 5R21AR084212-02Department: NIH department code
      Gene Therapy for PXE: Breaking the Barrier of Ectopic Calcification
      $185,328
      award amount

  10. Emad S Alnemri

    Leads 1 award · $549,226

    • 5R01AR078440-05Department: NIH department code
      Caspase-1 Activation by the Inflammasomes
      $549,226
      award amount

  11. Dmitry Temiakov

    Leads 1 award · $544,190

    • 5R35GM131832-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Transcription and Replication
      $544,190
      award amount

  12. Steven B. McMahon

    Leads 1 award · $519,475

    • 5R01ES033197-04Department: NIH department code
      METTL3 in chromium-induced angiogenesis and carcinogenesis
      $519,475
      award amount

  13. Lin Guo

    Leads 1 award · $351,000

    • 5R01NS121143-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing RNA Oligonucleotides to Mitigate Abberant FUS Phase Transition in FTD/ALS
      $351,000
      award amount

  14. Fadia Fayez Ibrahim

    Leads 1 award · $327,600

    • 5R01GM149825-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism for post-transcriptional gene regulation by Ribothrypsis
      $327,600
      award amount

  15. Zheng Ruan

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00NS128258-04Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Functional Studies on Proton-activated Chloride (PAC) Channel
      $248,999
      award amount

  16. Megumi Hamasaki Shigematsu

    Leads 1 award · $234,000

    • 1R21HL179322-01Department: NIH department code
      Circulating immunoactive small RNAs in COPD as biomarkers.
      $234,000
      award amount

  17. Michael Jeffrey Root

    Leads 1 award · $197,995

    • 7R21AI191986-02Department: NIH department code
      Function of HIV-1 Env cytoplasmic tail domain
      $197,995
      award amount

  18. Lily Thompson

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31ES036105-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the impact of oxidative stress on centromere integrity
      $49,538
      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.