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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$23.4M
$23,351,729
Awards
42
FY2026 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
51
33 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
of 95 · 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 Anatomy & Cell Biology row of the University of California-Irvine 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. Xiangmin Xu

    Leads 5 awards · $5,676,912

    • 5U01AG076791-05Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific neural circuit connectomes in the mouse models of aging and Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Xiangmin Xu (contact PI), Eran A Mukamel, Kim Green, Wei Xu

      $2,651,729
      award amount
    • 5R01AG082127-04Department: NIH department code
      Single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic analysis of brain cell vulnerabilities to tauopathies in early AD impacted brain regions

      Principal investigators: Xiangmin Xu (contact PI), Bing Ren, Michael D Koob

      $1,964,035
      award amount
    • 5R01AG092453-02Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific and spatial proteogenomics analysis of aberrant RNA splicing and misfolded proteins in Alzheimer's related tauopathies

      Principal investigators: Xiangmin Xu (contact PI), Bogdan Bintu, Charles G. Glabe

      $772,246
      award amount
    • 5T32AG081185-03Department: NIH department code
      The UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping training program in Alzheimer's disease research

      Principal investigators: Xiangmin Xu (contact PI), Todd C Holmes

      $278,902
      award amount
    • 1R13NS149652-01Department: NIH department code
      UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping 2026 Conference: Neural Circuits in Health and Disease
      $10,000
      award amount

  2. Michael A Yassa

    Leads 6 awards · $3,762,736

    • 5R01AG053555-09Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the role of cerebrovascular brain injury and dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis in the BEACoN Cohort
      $2,558,754
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128306-04Department: NIH department code
      Testing a Memory-Based Hypothesis for Anhedonia

      Principal investigators: Michael A Yassa (contact PI), Julian F. Thayer

      $728,546
      award amount
    • 5R25GM146300-05Department: NIH department code
      The Brain Explorer Academy (BEA): An Informal Science Education Partnership

      Principal investigators: Michael A Yassa (contact PI), Nancy G. Guerra

      $250,638
      award amount
    • 5T32MH119049-08Department: NIH department code
      Howard Schneiderman Training Program in Learning and Memory

      Principal investigators: Michael A Yassa (contact PI), Bruce L McNaughton, Manuella Yassa

      $186,216
      award amount
    • 3R01MH128306-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Testing a Memory-Based Hypothesis for Anhedonia

      Principal investigators: Michael A Yassa (contact PI), Julian F. Thayer

      $25,900
      award amount
    • 3R01AG053555-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the role of cerebrovascular brain injury and dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis in the BEACoN Cohort
      $12,682
      award amount

  3. Daniele Piomelli

    Leads 2 awards · $2,898,079

    • 5P50DA044118-07Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Cannabinoid Across the Lifespan (ICAL)

      Principal investigators: Christine M Gall (contact PI), Daniele Piomelli (contact PI), Faizy Ahmed (contact PI), Kwang Mook Jung (contact PI), Stephen Vincent Mahler (contact PI)

      $2,336,157
      award amount
    • 5R01DA055578-04Department: NIH department code
      The lipid hydrolase NAAA as a target for non-addictive analgesic medications
      $561,922
      award amount

  4. Seyed Ali Mortazavi

    Leads 1 award · $2,379,016

    • 3UM1HG012077-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Center for Mouse Genomic Variation at Single Cell Resolution

      Principal investigators: Seyed Ali Mortazavi (contact PI), Barbara J Wold

      $2,379,016
      award amount

  5. Christine M Gall

    Leads 1 award · $2,336,157

  6. Faizy Ahmed

    Leads 1 award · $2,336,157

  7. Kwang Mook Jung

    Leads 1 award · $2,336,157

  8. Stephen Vincent Mahler

    Leads 1 award · $2,336,157

  9. Kei M Igarashi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,102,790

    • 5R01MH137156-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding output circuits of the lateral entorhinal cortex
      $562,599
      award amount
    • 5R01AG086441-03Department: NIH department code
      Lateral entorhinal cortex dysfunction in an APP knock-in model of Alzheimer's disease
      $540,191
      award amount

  10. Robert F Hunt

    Leads 2 awards · $1,027,160

    • 5R01NS126399-04Department: NIH department code
      Bidirectional control of Chd2 haploinsufficiency
      $537,174
      award amount
    • 5R01NS137630-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting synaptic dysfunction in lissencephaly

      Principal investigators: Robert F Hunt (contact PI), Lulu Yiju Chen

      $489,986
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS045540-23, led by Tallie Z. Baram.

  11. Wenqi Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $722,640

    • 1R35GM163464-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of the Hippo pathway in growth control
      $399,220
      award amount
    • 5R01GM126048-09Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and function of the Hippo pathway in growth control
      $323,420
      award amount

  12. Xiaoyu Shi

    Leads 1 award · $711,796

    • 1R01HL186358-01Department: NIH department code
      A Nanomaterial-Engineered Proteomic Platform to Map Curvature-Dependent Cardiac Signaling

      Principal investigators: Xiaoyu Shi (contact PI), Howard Lee

      $711,796
      award amount

  13. Bruce Blumberg

    Leads 1 award · $633,756

    • 5R01ES023316-13Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin contacts are germline-transmissable vehicles underlying epigenetic transgenerational inheritance

      Principal investigators: Bruce Blumberg (contact PI), Toshihiro Shioda

      $633,756
      award amount

  14. Ken W.y. Cho

    Leads 1 award · $576,476

    • 2R35GM139617-06Department: NIH department code
      Zygotic Genome Activation by Maternal Transcription Factors and Epigenetic Modifiers
      $576,476
      award amount

  15. Maksim V Plikus

    Leads 1 award · $520,399

    • 5R01AR079150-05Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Size and Precision Control in Growing Hair Follicles

      Principal investigators: Maksim V Plikus (contact PI), Qing Nie

      $520,399
      award amount

  16. Arthur D Lander

    Leads 1 award · $511,631

    • 5T32GM136624-07Department: NIH department code
      Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology

      Principal investigators: Arthur D Lander (contact PI), Qing Nie

      $511,631
      award amount

  17. Evgeny Kvon

    Leads 1 award · $395,684

    • 5R01HD115268-03Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Mechanism of Pathogenic Enhancer Mutations In Congenital Limb Disorders
      $395,684
      award amount

  18. Hu Cang

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R01HG014004-02Department: NIH department code
      Smart Laser Capturing Microscope for Genome Wide Single Cell Spatial Transcriptomics

      Principal investigators: Hu Cang (contact PI), Sha Sun

      $392,500
      award amount

  19. Pablo Andres Lara-Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $381,220

    • 5R35GM150786-04Department: NIH department code
      Developmental regulation of the cell cycle machinery
      $381,220
      award amount

  20. Thomas F Schilling

    Leads 1 award · $358,828

    • 5R01AR067797-10Department: NIH department code
      Developmental regulation of cranial tendon fibroblast diversity and ECM interactions
      $358,828
      award amount

  21. Aimee L Edinger

    Leads 1 award · $301,221

    • 5R01CA254360-06Department: NIH department code
      A novel strategy to overcome drug resistance in cancer
      $301,221
      award amount

  22. Piotr Konieczny

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AR083536-04Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the repair and immunomodulatory functions of lymphatic vessels in wound healing
      $249,000
      award amount

  23. Tallie Z. Baram

    Leads 1 award · $156,173

    • 5T32NS045540-23Department: NIH department code
      Epilepsy Research Training Program

      Principal investigators: Tallie Z. Baram (contact PI), Robert F Hunt

      $156,173
      award amount

  24. Han Tan

    Leads 1 award · $132,423

    • 1K01DK143200-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting BNC2 Neurons for Diabetes Treatment
      $132,423
      award amount

  25. Zhuoxin Chen

    Leads 1 award · $128,191

    • 1K99DE034828-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying non-coding sources of mammalian craniofacial variation
      $128,191
      award amount

  26. Ethan W Hollingsworth

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30HD110233-04Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering Mechanisms of Limb Malformations Caused by Noncoding Variants In Vivo
      $55,114
      award amount

  27. Joshua Andrei Alcantara

    Leads 1 award · $48,140

    • 5F31HD118819-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting how gene regulatory redundancy ensures robustness of mammalian development
      $48,140
      award amount

  28. Chenyi Yang

    Leads 1 award · $47,459

    • 5F30MH135688-02Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal network mediating behavioral effects of social isolation in mice
      $47,459
      award amount

  29. Madison Rose Chau Tetzlaff

    Leads 1 award · $47,383

    • 1F30MH143517-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Developmental transcriptomics of the Paraventricular Thalamus
      $47,383
      award amount

  30. Bernardo Maximiliano Garduno

    Leads 1 award · $47,346

    • 5F31AG082485-03Department: NIH department code
      Neuropathological and spatial transcriptome brain maps in Octodon degus, a natural Alzheimer's disease rodent model
      $47,346
      award amount

  31. Sarah Elizabeth Espinoza

    Leads 1 award · $43,922

    • 1F31HD122363-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting enhancer-promoter specificity in mammalian development
      $43,922
      award amount

  32. Maria De Lourdes Andrade Ludena

    Leads 1 award · $43,733

    • 1F31HD121401-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Xist in the white-footed deermouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
      $43,733
      award amount

  33. Laura Ewell

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R01NS128222-04Department: NIH department code
      Determining the shared neuronal network mechanisms of focal epileptic discharges and impaired memory processing in temporal lobe epilepsy
      $1
      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.