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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$5.3M
$5,340,559
Awards
11
FY2026 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
11
9 lead a grant here, 2 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 Chemistry row of the University of California-Irvine page.

Leads a grant in this department

9 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. Christopher D Vanderwal

    Leads 3 awards · $2,029,291

    • 1R01AI198692-01Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic potential and mechanism of action of leelamine-derived isonitriles for malaria and babesiosis

      Principal investigators: Christopher D Vanderwal (contact PI), Choukri Ben Mamoun, Karine Gaelle Le Roch

      $823,548
      award amount
    • 1R01AI192615-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of the Pyrroloiminoquinone Scaffold for Malaria and Babesiosis Treatment

      Principal investigators: Christopher D Vanderwal (contact PI), Choukri Ben Mamoun, Karine Gaelle Le Roch

      $783,811
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145252-05Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Synthesis of Bioactive Diterpenoids
      $421,932
      award amount
  2. Adam George Kreutzer

    Leads 1 award · $739,365

    • 1R01AG098878-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Abeta beta-Hairpin Peptides and Oligomers as Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
      $739,365
      award amount
  3. Vy M Dong

    Leads 1 award · $468,200

    • 5R35GM127071-09Department: NIH department code
      Innovative Tools for Chemical Synthesis: Metal-Hydride Catalysis, Medicinal Motifs, and Molecular Probes
      $468,200
      award amount
  4. Elizabeth Nancy Bess

    Leads 1 award · $459,749

    • 5R01NS138879-03Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Chemical Factors in the Gut Microbiome that Control Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation in Parkinson's Disease
      $459,749
      award amount
  5. James S Nowick

    Leads 1 award · $404,866

    • 1R21AI191078-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Vancomycin-Teixobactin Conjugates
      $404,866
      award amount
  6. Sergey Pronin

    Leads 1 award · $372,539

    • 5R35GM153231-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of new methods and strategies for the synthesis of complex molecules
      $372,539
      award amount
  7. Suzanne A. Blum

    Leads 1 award · $367,987

    • 5R35GM153291-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Mechanisms of Organic Reactions and Processes through Imaging
      $367,987
      award amount
  8. Seunghyun Sim

    Leads 1 award · $365,317

    • 5R35GM150770-04Department: NIH department code
      Spatially Structured Synthetic Consortia of Microbes to Understand and Engineer Cells in 3D Environments
      $365,317
      award amount
  9. Nien-Hui Ge

    Leads 1 award · $133,245

    • 5R21EB034418-03Department: NIH department code
      Hyperspectral chemical imaging via sum-frequency generation microscopic holography
      $133,245
      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.

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