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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$12.2M
$12,167,642
Awards
26
FY2025 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
23
16 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 67 · 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 Ophthalmology row of the University of California-Irvine 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. Krzysztof Palczewski

    Leads 4 awards · $2,921,012

    • 2R01EY009339-37Department: NIH department code
      Retinoids in Vision

      Principal investigators: Krzysztof Palczewski (contact PI), Philip David Kiser

      $1,704,318
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034501-03Department: NIH department code
      Precision genome editing in vivo to treat retinal diseases
      $618,911
      award amount
    • 2R01EY030873-05A1Department: NIH department code
      The complex role of phosphodiesterase 6 in rod photoreceptor health and function
      $441,534
      award amount
    • 5T32EY032448-04Department: NIH department code
      Visual Sciences Training Program (VSTP)

      Principal investigators: Krzysztof Palczewski (contact PI), Chang C Liu, Philip David Kiser

      $156,249
      award amount

  2. Eric Pearlman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,418,857

    • 5R01EY014362-21Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis of Bacterial Keratitis

      Principal investigators: Eric Pearlman (contact PI), Arne Rietsch, George R Dubyak

      $676,812
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036478-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of monocytes and neutrophils in fungal keratitis
      $555,669
      award amount
    • 5T32AI177324-03Department: NIH department code
      Immunology Research Training Grant
      $186,376
      award amount

  3. Kimberly K Gokoffski

    Leads 2 awards · $1,152,220

    • 7R01EY035375-04Department: NIH department code
      Restoration of Optic Nerve Function Driven by In Vivo Multimodal Electrical Stimulation
      $684,773
      award amount
    • 7R01EY035715-03Department: NIH department code
      Morphologic and Functional Assessment of Field-Potentiated Optic Nerve Regeneration
      $467,447
      award amount

  4. Rui Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,045,079

    • 7R01EY022356-12Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Basis of Human Visual System Disorders
      $552,833
      award amount
    • 5R01EY018571-17Department: NIH department code
      Genetics of early onset retinal diseases
      $492,246
      award amount

  5. Audrone Lapinaite

    Leads 1 award · $942,000

    • 4DP2GM149550-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Novel Precision Genome Editing Tools
      $942,000
      award amount

  6. Gulab Zode

    Leads 2 awards · $840,390

    • 5R01EY034238-04Department: NIH department code
      Impaired TRVP4-eNOS signaling in TM contributes to glaucoma

      Principal investigators: Gulab Zode (contact PI), Swapnil K. Sonkusare

      $447,890
      award amount
    • 5R01EY026177-09Department: NIH department code
      Crosstalk between chronic ER stress and mitophagy for the treatment of POAG
      $392,500
      award amount

  7. Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk

    Leads 2 awards · $727,125

    • 3U01EY034594-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Correlating Genomic AMD Risk Variants with Lipid Composition and Phagocytic Function of Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE)

      Principal investigators: Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk (contact PI), Karl J Wahlin

      $393,500
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033002-05Department: NIH department code
      Neutrophil elastase and Gasdermin D in diabetic retinopathy
      $333,625
      award amount

  8. Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov

    Leads 2 awards · $601,505

    • 5R01EY035884-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanism of the visual disorders caused by G90D and G90V rhodopsin mutations
      $565,284
      award amount
    • 1T35EY035966-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Summer Mentoring and Research Training in Eye and Vision Research (SMART EVR)

      Principal investigators: Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov (contact PI), Albert R La Spada

      $36,221
      award amount

  9. James V Jester

    Leads 1 award · $561,846

    • 5R01EY021510-10Department: NIH department code
      Age-Related Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
      $561,846
      award amount

  10. Magdalene J Seiler

    Leads 1 award · $554,601

    • 5R01EY031834-05Department: NIH department code
      Integration and functionality of retinal organoid transplants
      $554,601
      award amount

  11. Samantha Bradford

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R21EY036176-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Amplified femtosecond laser permeabilization and poration for nonviral corneal gene delivery
      $431,750
      award amount

  12. Lbachir Benmohamed

    Leads 1 award · $409,999

    • 5R01EY019896-13Department: NIH department code
      Developing A Tissue-Targeted Ocular HSV Therapeutic Vaccine
      $409,999
      award amount

  13. Lilangi Ediriwickrema

    Leads 1 award · $257,920

    • 1K23EY036491-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging to Investigate Mechanistic Constituents in Active Thyroid Eye Disease
      $257,920
      award amount

  14. Andrew W Browne

    Leads 1 award · $194,262

    • 5K08EY034912-03Department: NIH department code
      In vivo 2-photon imaging of retinal biochemistry before and after retinal organoid transplantation
      $194,262
      award amount

  15. John Dong-Hoon Hong

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30EY033659-04Department: NIH department code
      Formation of Retinyl-Opsins by Retinyl Formate as Molecular Shades Against Light-Induced Retinal Damage
      $54,538
      award amount

  16. Samuel Wang Du

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30EY033642-04Department: NIH department code
      microRNA-204 and microRNA-211 regulation of RPE phagocytosis
      $54,538
      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.