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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Funding
$41.3M
$41,323,219
Awards
74
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
77
69 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
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, Berkeley page.

Leads a grant in this department

69 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. Claire Clelland

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  2. Fyodor D Urnov

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  3. Jennifer A Doudna

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  4. Krystof S Bankiewicz

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  5. Niren Murthy

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  6. Piotr Hadaczek

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  7. Ross C Wilson

    Leads 1 award · $2,995,196

  8. David Bilder

    Leads 2 awards · $2,665,843

    • 5T32GM148378-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biology Across Scales Training Program

      Principal investigators: David Bilder (contact PI), Elcin Unal

      $1,836,688
      award amount
    • 5R35GM130388-08Department: NIH department code
      Epithelial biology: morphogenesis and damage signaling
      $829,155
      award amount

  9. Dirk Hockemeyer

    Leads 1 award · $2,197,943

    • 1R01CA307971-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Integrating AI and Deep Mutational Scanning to Predict the Cancer-Promoting Effect of Shelterin Mutations

      Principal investigators: Dirk Hockemeyer (contact PI), Yun S Song

      $2,197,943
      award amount

  10. Molly Ohainle

    Leads 1 award · $2,057,334

    • 2R01AI147877-08A1Department: NIH department code
      Lentiviral Restriction: capsid and beyond
      $2,057,334
      award amount

  11. Roberto Zoncu

    Leads 3 awards · $1,729,623

    • 5R35GM149302-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Organelle-based Metabolic Signaling
      $614,394
      award amount
    • 5R01NS133575-03Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering and disabling lysosome-dependent mechanisms of neurodegeneration
      $571,247
      award amount
    • 5R01CA260205-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting and targeting lysosomal signaling in kidney tumorigenesis

      Principal investigators: Roberto Zoncu (contact PI), Andrea Ballabio

      $543,982
      award amount

  12. Marla Feller

    Leads 3 awards · $1,422,196

    • 5P30EY003176-44Department: NIH department code
      UC Berkeley Vision Science CORE

      Principal investigators: Karsten Gronert (contact PI), Marla Feller (contact PI), Richard H Kramer (contact PI), Xiaohua Gong (contact PI)

      $642,000
      award amount
    • 5R01EY019498-17Department: NIH department code
      Development of direction selectivity in retina
      $391,078
      award amount
    • 5R01EY013528-24Department: NIH department code
      The Function of Neural Activity in Developing Retina
      $389,118
      award amount

  13. Gregory M Barton

    Leads 2 awards · $1,329,116

    • 1R01AI200393-01Department: NIH department code
      Specificity requirements and functional properties of microbiota-reactive peri-weaning Tregs
      $787,945
      award amount
    • 5R01AI072429-18Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of TLR trafficking for proper self versus non-self discrimination
      $541,171
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AI100829-13, led by Ellen A Robey.

  14. Stephan Lammel

    Leads 2 awards · $1,244,947

    • 5R01DK140665-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuropeptidergic mechanisms underlying hedonic feeding behavior
      $666,229
      award amount
    • 5R01DA042889-09Department: NIH department code
      Circuit-specific mechanisms of reward and aversion in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons
      $578,718
      award amount

  15. Lin He

    Leads 2 awards · $1,135,958

    • 5R01AG078958-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of retrotransposons in female reproductive aging

      Principal investigators: Lin He (contact PI), Ting Wang

      $580,135
      award amount
    • 5R01HD106809-05Department: NIH department code
      Retrotransposon derived promoters drive alternative host gene isoforms with important developmental functions
      $555,823
      award amount

  16. David G Drubin

    Leads 1 award · $1,096,721

    • 2R35GM118149-11Department: NIH department code
      Actin assembly and clathrin-mediated endocytosis in yeast and mammals
      $1,096,721
      award amount

  17. Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

    Leads 1 award · $963,000

    • 4DP2GM154010-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining and Exploiting the Circadian Clocks in Malaria Parasites
      $963,000
      award amount

  18. Megan Lee Martik

    Leads 1 award · $963,000

    • 4DP2HL173858-02Department: NIH department code
      Reactivating regulatory programs for regeneration
      $963,000
      award amount

  19. Ellen A Robey

    Leads 2 awards · $957,038

    • 5T32AI100829-13Department: NIH department code
      Immunology & Molecular Medicine Program Training Grant

      Principal investigators: Ellen A Robey (contact PI), Gregory M Barton

      $489,482
      award amount
    • 5R01AI064227-19Department: NIH department code
      Signals that Control Thymocyte Migration
      $467,556
      award amount

  20. Daniel A Portnoy

    Leads 2 awards · $955,141

    • 5R01AI027655-38Department: NIH department code
      How Listeria senses and responds to different host environments
      $481,500
      award amount
    • 5R01CA283604-03Department: NIH department code
      Reversing cancer immunosuppression using attenuated Listeria monocytogenes

      Principal investigators: Daniel A Portnoy (contact PI), Michel Dupage

      $473,641
      award amount

  21. Hillel Adesnik

    Leads 2 awards · $954,299

    • 5R01EY023756-13Department: NIH department code
      Excitation and Inhibition in Neural Circuits of the Visual Cortex
      $593,174
      award amount
    • 1R34NS144925-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional connectomics via high-speed two-photon voltage imaging and optogenetics
      $361,125
      award amount

  22. Sarah A Stanley

    Leads 2 awards · $943,003

    • 1R01AI197387-01Department: NIH department code
      The interplay of protein secretion and lipid virulence factors in host immune suppression by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
      $756,714
      award amount
    • 5R21AI191565-02Department: NIH department code
      Use of random barcode transposon site sequencing as a tool for identifying nutrient acquisition strategies utilized by Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection of human macrophages
      $186,289
      award amount

  23. Sona Kang

    Leads 1 award · $782,184

    • 1R01DK146220-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Metabolism
      $782,184
      award amount

  24. Russell E Vance

    Leads 1 award · $751,663

    • 1R01AI195901-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissection of Shigella pathogenesis in vivo using a new oral infection mouse model

      Principal investigators: Russell E Vance (contact PI), Cammie Lesser

      $751,663
      award amount

  25. Noah K Whiteman

    Leads 1 award · $747,682

    • 5T32GM132022-08Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Dissection of Cells and Organisms Training Program

      Principal investigators: Noah K Whiteman (contact PI), Nicole King

      $747,682
      award amount

  26. Ellen A Lumpkin

    Leads 2 awards · $695,063

    • 5U24AT011970-05Department: NIH department code
      NeuronS_MATTR Network: Neuronal & Systems Mechanisms of Affective Touch & Therapeutic Tissue Manipulation Research Network

      Principal investigators: Ellen A Lumpkin (contact PI), Gregory John Gerling

      $615,825
      award amount
    • 5T34GM145535-05Department: NIH department code
      The UC Berkeley MARC: Shaping the Next Generation of Scientific Leaders
      $79,238
      award amount

  27. Karsten Gronert

    Leads 1 award · $642,000

  28. Richard H Kramer

    Leads 1 award · $642,000

  29. Xiaohua Gong

    Leads 1 award · $642,000

  30. Na Ji

    Leads 1 award · $622,661

    • 5U01NS137449-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing FACED for robust large-scale activity recording
      $622,661
      award amount

  31. Michel Dupage

    Leads 1 award · $618,928

    • 5R01CA292818-02Department: NIH department code
      Immunosuppressive mechanisms of intratumoral regulatory T cells
      $618,928
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA283604-03, led by Daniel A Portnoy.

  32. Kathleen Collins

    Leads 1 award · $617,574

    • 1R01GM162720-01Department: NIH department code
      Site-specific Non-LTR Retrotransposon Mechanisms of Mobility and Transgene Insertion
      $617,574
      award amount

  33. Iswar K. Hariharan

    Leads 1 award · $612,169

    • 5R35GM122490-10Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Regulation of Developmental and Regenerative Growth
      $612,169
      award amount

  34. Jamie H Cate

    Leads 1 award · $608,321

    • 5R35GM148352-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Translation Control in Humans
      $608,321
      award amount

  35. Hei Sook Sul

    Leads 1 award · $574,042

    • 5R01DK140318-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancer for UCP1 transcription and thermogenesis
      $574,042
      award amount

  36. Nicholas T Ingolia

    Leads 2 awards · $543,439

    • 5R01GM139008-04Department: NIH department code
      Diverse and dynamically regulated mRNP composition regulating translation
      $297,176
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163713-01Department: NIH department code
      Global analysis of post-transcriptional regulatory networks
      $246,263
      award amount

  37. Priya Moorjani

    Leads 1 award · $534,061

    • 2R35GM142978-06Department: NIH department code
      Genomic Insights into Human Population Mixture and its Role in Adaptation and Disease
      $534,061
      award amount

  38. Eva Nogales

    Leads 1 award · $481,500

    • 5R35GM127018-09Department: NIH department code
      Structural studies of function and regulation of microtubules and transcriptional gene expression machinery
      $481,500
      award amount

  39. Richard M Harland

    Leads 1 award · $481,500

    • 5R35GM127069-09Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression in Amphibian Development
      $481,500
      award amount

  40. Stephen Graf Brohawn

    Leads 1 award · $477,523

    • 5R01GM148599-04Department: NIH department code
      Structural and mechanistic basis of channelrhodopsin function
      $477,523
      award amount

  41. Matthew D Welch

    Leads 1 award · $476,685

    • 5R35GM127108-09Department: NIH department code
      Microbial mobilization of the actin cytoskeleton
      $476,685
      award amount

  42. David H Raulet

    Leads 1 award · $474,939

    • 5R01CA270790-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms underlying combination therapy mobilizing NK cells
      $474,939
      award amount

  43. Gloria Ann Brar

    Leads 1 award · $467,635

    • 5R35GM134886-07Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating the gene regulatory strategies underlying yeast meiosis and beyond
      $467,635
      award amount

  44. Susan Marqusee

    Leads 1 award · $444,432

    • 5R35GM149319-04Department: NIH department code
      Sequence and Environmental Determinants of the Protein Energy Landscape
      $444,432
      award amount

  45. Phillip Alfonso Cleves

    Leads 1 award · $441,375

    • 1R35GM162274-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell and developmental mechanisms of animal responses to intracellular beneficial microbes
      $441,375
      award amount

  46. Robert Andrew Saxton

    Leads 1 award · $441,375

    • 1R35GM166183-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding and Reprogramming Cytokine-Driven Tissue States in Inflammation
      $441,375
      award amount

  47. Hernan Gustavo Garcia

    Leads 1 award · $431,919

    • 5R35GM158200-02Department: NIH department code
      Physical Biology of Transcriptional Control in Embryonic Development
      $431,919
      award amount

  48. Elcin Unal

    Leads 1 award · $425,364

    • 1R35GM161985-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Unconventional Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Meiosis and Beyond
      $425,364
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM148378-04, led by David Bilder.

  49. Georjana Barnes

    Leads 1 award · $401,250

    • 5R35GM149237-04Department: NIH department code
      Saccharomyces cerevisiae microtubule and kinetochore dynamics
      $401,250
      award amount

  50. James Karlo Nunez

    Leads 1 award · $401,250

    • 5R35GM155044-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of epigenetic memory in human cells
      $401,250
      award amount

  51. Daniel Soleyman Rokhsar

    Leads 1 award · $397,418

    • 5T32HG000047-27Department: NIH department code
      Berkeley Training Program in Genomics and Computational Biology

      Principal investigators: Daniel Soleyman Rokhsar (contact PI), Rasmus Nielsen

      $397,418
      award amount

  52. Helen S. Bateup

    Leads 1 award · $386,360

    • 5R01MH130839-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Syngap1 as a regulator of striatal synaptic function
      $386,360
      award amount

  53. Samantha C Lewis

    Leads 1 award · $385,616

    • 5R35GM147218-05Department: NIH department code
      Systems analysis of mitochondrial genome maintenance in physiological context
      $385,616
      award amount

  54. Andrew G Dillin

    Leads 1 award · $385,329

    • 5R01AG082797-04Department: NIH department code
      Extracellular Matrix Control of Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Longevity
      $385,329
      award amount

  55. Evan Walker Miller

    Leads 1 award · $382,425

    • 5R35GM153237-03Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Approaches to Visualize and Quantify Cellular Physiology
      $382,425
      award amount

  56. David Frank Savage

    Leads 1 award · $361,952

    • 5R35GM158173-02Department: NIH department code
      Function, evolution and engineering of proteins
      $361,952
      award amount

  57. Craig Thomas Miller

    Leads 1 award · $348,963

    • 2R56DE021475-16Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Genetics of Tooth Number Variation in Sticklebacks
      $348,963
      award amount

  58. Michael P Rape

    Leads 1 award · $302,302

    • 5R01GM151335-04Department: NIH department code
      Function and regulation of the reductive stress response
      $302,302
      award amount

  59. Jeffery S Cox

    Leads 1 award · $240,750

    • 1R21AI199682-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovering a multi-protein lipid export system in Mycobacteria
      $240,750
      award amount

  60. Susan Jenkins

    Leads 1 award · $234,717

    • 5R25AG088414-03Department: NIH department code
      IMPRINT - Immersive Methods for Promoting Research and Innovations through Novel Training - for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

      Principal investigators: Susan Jenkins (contact PI), Gail Christine Gannon

      $234,717
      award amount

  61. Shashank Gandhi

    Leads 1 award · $147,636

    • 5K99HL175104-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of BMP signaling in cardiac neural crest development
      $147,636
      award amount

  62. Erin E Doherty

    Leads 1 award · $120,312

    • 1K99AI201800-01Department: NIH department code
      Unveiling mechanisms of RNA editing dysregulation
      $120,312
      award amount

  63. Timothy J Eisen

    Leads 1 award · $117,883

    • 5K99AI185160-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase in B-cell Anergy
      $117,883
      award amount

  64. Kevin Ka-Man Sit

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32EY035926-03Department: NIH department code
      Contributions of cortical feedback to orientation-dependent surround suppression
      $79,348
      award amount

  65. Roya Huang

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32EY039079-01Department: NIH department code
      Ultrastructural development and regeneration of nodes of Ranvier
      $76,780
      award amount

  66. Maria Alejandra Torres-Colon

    Leads 1 award · $48,971

    • 1F31DC023147-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cells of the Endolymphatic Sac Sense Pressure to Promote Hearing and Balance
      $48,971
      award amount

  67. Roland Mina Lacap

    Leads 1 award · $48,971

    • 1F31HD121399-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the Establishment of Heterochromatin Domains During Early Drosophila Embryogenesis
      $48,971
      award amount

  68. Anna Freitas

    Leads 1 award · $48,332

    • 5F31ES038012-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Regulation of Translational DEAD-box Helicases during Stress
      $48,332
      award amount

  69. Simon Chau

    Leads 1 award · $44,262

    • 1F31HL182175-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering Molecular Cues Regulating Response to Injury in the Adult Zebrafish Heart
      $44,262
      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.