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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of California at Davis

Davis, CA

Funding
$10.3M
$10,346,345
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
21
16 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#34
of 136 · 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 University of California at Davis page.

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. Aiming Yu

    Leads 2 awards · $2,644,155

    • 4R01CA291771-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel biologic RNA molecules to modulate HCC metabolism
      $1,461,107
      award amount
    • 4R01CA225958-08Department: NIH department code
      Novel bioengineered microRNA therapeutics for lung cancer
      $1,183,048
      award amount

  2. Yuanpei Li

    Leads 4 awards · $1,951,570

    • 1R01CA314229-01Department: NIH department code
      Second-generation new-chemical-entity nanomedicine to target treatment resistance in pancreatic cancer
      $667,482
      award amount
    • 5R01CA294557-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of novel nanotherapeutics to overcome therapy resistance using canine brain tumor as a spontaneous model
      $634,743
      award amount
    • 5R01EB035416-03Department: NIH department code
      Two-way Magnetic Resonance Tuning Nanoprobe Enhanced Subtraction Imaging for Precision Diagnosis of Brain Metastasis
      $594,280
      award amount
    • 3R01EB035416-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Two-way Magnetic Resonance Tuning Nanoprobe Enhanced Subtraction Imaging for Precision Diagnosis of Brain Metastasis
      $55,065
      award amount

  3. Luis Guillermo Carvajal Carmona

    Leads 3 awards · $1,481,571

  4. John D. McPherson

    Leads 1 award · $1,041,566

  5. Jonathan W Riess

    Leads 1 award · $1,041,566

    Also a principal investigator on 3U54CA283766-04S1, led by Luis Guillermo Carvajal Carmona.

  6. Kc Kent Lloyd

    Leads 1 award · $1,041,566

  7. Moon Shao-Chuang Chen

    Leads 1 award · $1,041,566

  8. David E Olson

    Leads 2 awards · $857,601

    • 5R01DA056365-05Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput Identification of Non-hallucinogenic Psychoplastogens for Treating Addiction
      $541,161
      award amount
    • 5R35GM148182-04Department: NIH department code
      Chemical and Molecular Tools for Modulating GPCR Function
      $316,440
      award amount

  9. Kit S Lam

    Leads 1 award · $626,031

    • 5R01CA298815-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel approach to modulate the TME on-demand with therapeutic peptides and proteins.
      $626,031
      award amount

  10. Oliver Fiehn

    Leads 1 award · $501,930

    • 5R01GM155383-03Department: NIH department code
      A reproducible database for untargeted metabolomics data processing across laboratories

      Principal investigators: Oliver Fiehn (contact PI), Charles Robert Evans, Thomas O Metz

      $501,930
      award amount

  11. Sean M Burgess

    Leads 1 award · $453,014

    • 5R35GM145244-05Department: NIH department code
      Homolog pairing in meiosis
      $453,014
      award amount

  12. Christopher S Fraser

    Leads 1 award · $402,500

    • 5R35GM152137-03Department: NIH department code
      The mechanisms of mRNA recruitment to the human ribosome
      $402,500
      award amount

  13. Nitzan Shabek

    Leads 1 award · $390,881

    • 1R35GM161914-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Mechanisms and Regulatory Networks of Plant U-Box/RING Ubiquitin Ligase Complexes under biotic stress
      $390,881
      award amount

  14. Hongwu Chen

    Leads 1 award · $368,288

    • 5R01CA259081-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting aberrant circadian regulator in advanced prostate cancer
      $368,288
      award amount

  15. Meijuan Tu

    Leads 1 award · $361,171

    • 2R01CA253230-09Department: NIH department code
      Novel bioengineered RNAs in drug disposition and action
      $361,171
      award amount

  16. Marc Tancredi Facciotti

    Leads 1 award · $307,633

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.

  • Charles Robert Evans

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM155383-03, led by Oliver Fiehn

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

  • Thomas O Metz

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM155383-03, led by Oliver Fiehn

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

  • Laura Fejerman

    Co-investigator on 5D43CA260869-05, led by Luis Guillermo Carvajal Carmona

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • John Topinka

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM150440-04, led by Marc Tancredi Facciotti

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

  • Marina Lyn Ellefson Crowder

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM150440-04, led by Marc Tancredi Facciotti

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