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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$10.6M
$10,590,172
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
24
21 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#20
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the University of California-Irvine page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Qin Yang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,096,842

    • 5R01DK136940-04Department: NIH department code
      Alternative polyadenylation as a novel mechanism for diabetes
      $599,337
      award amount
    • 5R01DK121146-08Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Energy Metabolism
      $497,505
      award amount

  2. Geoffrey W Abbott

    Leads 2 awards · $943,379

    • 5R01NS107671-07Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic small molecule modulation of Kv channels
      $494,045
      award amount
    • 5R35GM130377-08Department: NIH department code
      Ion Channel Transporter Interactions
      $449,334
      award amount

  3. Shivashankar Othy

    Leads 2 awards · $936,742

    • 5R01AI168063-05Department: NIH department code
      Tissue-Specific Mechanisms of Regulatory T Cells in the CNS during Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
      $504,992
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196939-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional Expansion of Regulatory T Cells to Limit CNS Autoimmunity
      $431,750
      award amount

  4. Lan Huang

    Leads 2 awards · $774,102

    • 5R35GM145249-05Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Proteomics Technologies to Decipher the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
      $588,750
      award amount
    • 3R35GM145249-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Proteomics Technologies to Decipher the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
      $185,352
      award amount

  5. Crystal May Ripplinger

    Leads 1 award · $726,750

    • 7R01HL111600-15Department: NIH department code
      Sympathetic remodeling and ventricular arrhythmia
      $726,750
      award amount

  6. Francesco Marangoni

    Leads 1 award · $648,626

    • 1R01CA287116-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of immunosuppression triggered by checkpoint blockade immunotherapy
      $648,626
      award amount

  7. Medha M Pathak

    Leads 1 award · $621,468

    • 1R01NS146326-01Department: NIH department code
      PIEZO1-Mediated Mechanotransduction in Neural Development
      $621,468
      award amount

  8. Lisa Wagar

    Leads 1 award · $618,105

    • 5R01AI173023-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating protective adaptive immune responses to influenza antigens using human tonsil organoids
      $618,105
      award amount

  9. Devon A. Lawson

    Leads 1 award · $554,732

    • 2R01CA237376-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Immune microenvironment in brain metastais
      $554,732
      award amount

  10. Rongsheng Jin

    Leads 1 award · $530,103

    • 5R01AI177428-02Department: NIH department code
      Structural studies of the OrfX-type progenitor toxin complex of botulinum neurotoxin
      $530,103
      award amount

  11. Todd C Holmes

    Leads 2 awards · $511,077

    • 5R35GM127102-09Department: NIH department code
      UV to blue neuronal phototransduction mechanisms
      $465,852
      award amount
    • 3R35GM127102-09S1Department: NIH department code
      UV to blue neuronal phototransduction mechanisms
      $45,225
      award amount

  12. Philip David Kiser

    Leads 1 award · $448,925

  13. Lingxuan Chen

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R21AG101225-01Department: NIH department code
      Retrosplenial cortex hyperexcitability as an early driver of Alzheimer's Disease
      $431,750
      award amount

  14. Michael Ryan Hicks

    Leads 1 award · $390,822

    • 5R01AR084027-03Department: NIH department code
      Modulating the Stem Cell Niche Set Point to Improve Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
      $390,822
      award amount

  15. Asuka Eguchi

    Leads 2 awards · $389,173

    • 1R03HL183114-01Department: NIH department code
      Cardiac complications of dystrophin deficiency in female carriers
      $235,500
      award amount
    • 5K01HL169413-04Department: NIH department code
      Gene Therapy Design Principles for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
      $153,673
      award amount

  16. Vladimir Jivkov Kefalov

    Leads 1 award · $345,240

  17. Kevin T Beier

    Leads 1 award · $334,973

    • 5R01NS130044-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of neural ensembles driving pain chronification

      Principal investigators: Kevin T Beier (contact PI), Gregory Corder

      $334,973
      award amount

  18. Suhas Sureshchandra

    Leads 1 award · $127,019

    • 5K99AG090739-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting T follicular helper cells for rejuvenating the aging germinal center
      $127,019
      award amount

  19. Emily Tom

    Leads 1 award · $58,114

    • 5F30EY035146-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of ELOVL2 in age-related visual decline
      $58,114
      award amount

  20. May Hui

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30DA056215-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of neural ensembles underlying chronic pain
      $55,114
      award amount

  21. Maximillian Ter-An Lin

    Leads 1 award · $47,116

    • 5F30MH140515-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the neural mechanisms of positive and negative social interactions
      $47,116
      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.