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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Funding
$7.9M
$7,884,490
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
21
11 lead a grant here, 10 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 Engineering row of the University of California, Berkeley page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Chunlei Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,369,147

    • 5R01NS129888-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetically-Encoded, Non-Invasive and Wireless Modulation of Calcium Dynamics in Astrocytes With Spatiotemporal Precision and Depth

      Principal investigators: Chunlei Liu (contact PI), Lin Tian

      $727,685
      award amount
    • 5R01EB038755-02Department: NIH department code
      Make MRI Coils Digital and Programmable to Advance Ultra-High-Field Brain MRI
      $641,462
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01EB038056-01A1, led by Michael Lustig.

  2. David V Schaffer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,315,899

    • 5R01NS126397-04Department: NIH department code
      Directed Evolution of Novel AAVs and Regulatory Elements for Selective Microglial Gene Expression

      Principal investigators: David V Schaffer (contact PI), Tomasz Nowakowski

      $788,079
      award amount
    • 5R01NS074831-15Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cell Mechanoregulation

      Principal investigators: David V Schaffer (contact PI), Sanjay Kumar

      $527,820
      award amount
  3. Laura Waller

    Leads 1 award · $1,141,540

    • 1S10OD040150-01Department: NIH department code
      Nanoscribe Quantum X align
      $1,141,540
      award amount
  4. Jay D Keasling

    Leads 1 award · $865,391

    • 5R01AI186111-03Department: NIH department code
      Iterative Microbial Production and Systems Immunology to Design QS-21 Adjuvants

      Principal investigators: Jay D Keasling (contact PI), Harshini Mukundan

      $865,391
      award amount
  5. Amy J. Pickering

    Leads 2 awards · $724,152

  6. Michael Lustig

    Leads 1 award · $610,840

    • 1R01EB038056-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sound Asleep: Technologies for uninterrupted whole night sleep recording in an MRI scanner

      Principal investigators: Michael Lustig (contact PI), Chunlei Liu, Matthew P Walker

      $610,840
      award amount
  7. Yun S Song

    Leads 1 award · $575,594

    • 5R01HG013117-03Department: NIH department code
      Scalable Computational Methods for Genealogical Inference: from species level to single cells

      Principal investigators: Yun S Song (contact PI), Ian H Holmes, Rasmus Nielsen

      $575,594
      award amount
  8. Lydia L Sohn

    Leads 1 award · $574,287

    • 5R01EB024989-08Department: NIH department code
      Detection of Emergent Mechanical Properties of Biologically Complex Cellular States

      Principal investigators: Lydia L Sohn (contact PI), Mark A Labarge

      $574,287
      award amount
  9. Shiyu Xia

    Leads 1 award · $329,491

    • 1R35GM166219-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Molecular Basis of Necroptosis
      $329,491
      award amount
  10. Preeya Khanna

    Leads 1 award · $200,935

    • 5R00NS124748-05Department: NIH department code
      Neural dynamics of somatosensory guidance of dexterous movement in intact and stroke-injured networks
      $200,935
      award amount
  11. Jun-Chau Chien

    Leads 1 award · $177,214

    • 5R21EB036154-03Department: NIH department code
      SEMI-SIMOA: A Chip-scale Flow-based Single-Molecule Assay at the Point-of-Care using Semiconductor Technology
      $177,214
      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.