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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$10.3M
$10,254,332
Awards
23
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
21
12 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#12
of 69 · 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

12 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. James V Jester

    Leads 3 awards · $1,622,185

    • 5P30EY034070-05Department: NIH department code
      NEI UCI Center Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: James V Jester (contact PI), Rachel Wagner Martin (contact PI), Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov (contact PI)

      $624,293
      award amount
    • 5R01EY021510-11Department: NIH department code
      Age-Related Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
      $566,142
      award amount
    • 1R21EY038406-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring Novel Mechanisms of Obstructive Meibomian gland Dysfunction
      $431,750
      award amount

  2. Lbachir Benmohamed

    Leads 2 awards · $1,412,996

    • 2R01AI150091-06A1Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Prime/Pull/Keep mRNA-Based Vaccine to Prevent Recurrent Genital Herpes
      $784,998
      award amount
    • 1R01EY039366-01Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells to Control Recurrent Ocular Herpes
      $627,998
      award amount

  3. Eric Pearlman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,402,408

    • 5R01EY014362-22Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis of Bacterial Keratitis

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

      $676,812
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036478-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of monocytes and neutrophils in fungal keratitis
      $555,669
      award amount
    • 5T32AI177324-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunology Research Training Grant
      $169,927
      award amount

  4. Rui Chen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,349,536

    • 5R01EY022356-13Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Basis of Human Visual System Disorders
      $532,055
      award amount
    • 5R01EY018571-18Department: NIH department code
      Genetics of early onset retinal diseases
      $429,275
      award amount
    • 1R24EY039196-01Department: NIH department code
      VisionKB: A Single Cell Multi-Omics Knowledgebase for the Visual System

      Principal investigators: Rui Chen (contact PI), Chen Li, Xiaohui Xie

      $388,206
      award amount

  5. Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov

    Leads 3 awards · $1,236,562

    • 5P30EY034070-05Department: NIH department code
      NEI UCI Center Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: James V Jester (contact PI), Rachel Wagner Martin (contact PI), Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov (contact PI)

      $624,293
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035884-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanism of the visual disorders caused by G90D and G90V rhodopsin mutations
      $575,426
      award amount
    • 5T35EY035966-02Department: 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

      $36,843
      award amount

  6. Gulab Zode

    Leads 2 awards · $1,038,739

    • 1R01EY038840-01Department: NIH department code
      In Vivo Base Editing via Lipid Nanoparticles Targeting the Trabecular Meshwork for Glaucoma Therapy

      Principal investigators: Gulab Zode (contact PI), Philip Louis Felgner

      $590,849
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034238-05Department: 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

  7. Kimberly K Gokoffski

    Leads 2 awards · $1,019,150

    • 5R01EY035375-05Department: NIH department code
      Restoration of Optic Nerve Function Driven by In Vivo Multimodal Electrical Stimulation
      $535,571
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035715-04Department: NIH department code
      Morphologic and Functional Assessment of Field-Potentiated Optic Nerve Regeneration
      $483,579
      award amount

  8. Frans Vinberg

    Leads 2 awards · $894,476

    • 2R01EY031706-06Department: NIH department code
      Light signaling in the human retina
      $501,976
      award amount
    • 7R01EY034986-04Department: NIH department code
      Functional plasticity in retinal degenerative disease
      $392,500
      award amount

  9. Rachel Wagner Martin

    Leads 1 award · $624,293

  10. Krzysztof Palczewski

    Leads 2 awards · $590,115

    • 5R01EY030873-06Department: NIH department code
      The complex role of phosphodiesterase 6 in rod photoreceptor health and function
      $441,534
      award amount
    • 5T32EY032448-05Department: NIH department code
      Visual Sciences Training Program (VSTP)

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

      $148,581
      award amount

  11. Lilangi Ediriwickrema

    Leads 1 award · $257,920

    • 5K23EY036491-02Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging to Investigate Mechanistic Constituents in Active Thyroid Eye Disease
      $257,920
      award amount

  12. Samuel Wang Du

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30EY033642-05Department: 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.