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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$13.1M
$13,067,895
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
18
8 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#36
of 108 · 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 Pediatrics row of the University of California-Irvine page.

Leads a grant in this department

8 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. Eric J. Vilain

    Leads 6 awards · $7,088,273

  2. Erlinda Rose Ulloa

    Leads 1 award · $3,024,289

    • 1RC2TR004919-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Machine Learning-Enabled Metabolic Imaging Platform for Physiologically Relevant, Predictive Drug Efficacy Testing

      Principal investigators: Erlinda Rose Ulloa (contact PI), Michelle Digman, Peter Chang

      $3,024,289
      award amount
  3. Tallie Z. Baram

    Leads 1 award · $802,256

    • 1R01MH139931-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sex- and hormone-dependent differences in memory vulnerability to acute traumatic stress

      Principal investigators: Tallie Z. Baram (contact PI), Elizabeth A Heller

      $802,256
      award amount
  4. Lauren Elizabeth Gyllenhammer

    Leads 1 award · $776,971

    • 1R01DK147563-01Department: NIH department code
      Early Life Stress, Cellular Vulnerability, and the Developmental Programming of Metabolic Disease
      $776,971
      award amount
  5. Virginia Eunice Kimonis

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R21AG093390-01Department: NIH department code
      Correction of VCP Disease Pathology with Antisense Oligonucleotides
      $431,750
      award amount
  6. Jennifer Gelinas

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R01NS118091-06Department: NIH department code
      Closed-Loop Modulation of Hippocampal-Cortical Communication in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $392,500
      award amount
  7. Jerod Michael Rasmussen

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R01MH138481-02Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Programming of the Human Hypothalamus and its Role in Motivated Behaviors
      $392,500
      award amount
  8. Katharine Simon

    Leads 1 award · $159,356

    • 5K08HD107161-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of insufficient sleep and depression on hippocampal-dependent memory trajectories across the adolescent transition
      $159,356
      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.

  • Dan M Cooper

    Co-investigator on 5UM1TR004927-03, led by Eric J. Vilain

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Michelle Digman

    Co-investigator on 1RC2TR004919-01A1, led by Erlinda Rose Ulloa

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Peter Chang

    Co-investigator on 1RC2TR004919-01A1, led by Erlinda Rose Ulloa

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Albert R La Spada

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS139215-03, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3U01NS139215-03S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Changrui Xiao

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS139215-03, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3U01NS139215-03S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Elizabeth Carol Chao

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS139215-03, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3U01NS139215-03S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Jose Abdenur

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS139215-03, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3U01NS139215-03S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Elizabeth A Heller

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH139931-01A1, led by Tallie Z. Baram

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Marius George Linguraru

    Co-investigator on 5R33HD102988-04, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3R33HD102988-04S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Ngoyi Mumba

    Co-investigator on 5R33HD102988-04, led by Eric J. Vilain; 3R33HD102988-04S1, led by Eric J. Vilain

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.