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FY2021 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$22.3M
$22,333,897
Awards
53
FY2021 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
43
43 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
of 139 · 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 Biochemistry row of the University of California, Los Angeles page.

Leads a grant in this department

43 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. Plath, Kathrin

    Leads 2 awards · $2,255,512

    • 5P01GM099134-10Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming Genetic Networks to a Pluripotent State
      $1,828,130
      award amount
    • 5R01HD098387-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic control of the human X chromosome
      $427,382
      award amount
  2. Gonen, Tamir

    Leads 2 awards · $1,478,285

    • 5P41GM136508-02Department: NIH department code
      MEDIC - MicroED Imaging Center at UCLA
      $1,228,285
      award amount
    • 3P41GM136508-02S1Department: NIH department code
      MEDIC - MicroED Imaging Center at UCLA
      $250,000
      award amount
  3. Backus, Keriann Marie

    Leads 1 award · $1,404,000

    • 1DP2GM146246-01Department: NIH department code
      A systems-level approach to decipher the protein interactome.
      $1,404,000
      award amount
  4. Clark, Amander

    Leads 3 awards · $1,271,491

    • 5R01HD098278-03Department: NIH department code
      Towards a preclinical model for overcoming infertility with induced pluripotent stem cells
      $605,349
      award amount
    • 5R01HD058047-13Department: NIH department code
      Understanding epigenetic remodeling in primordial germ cells
      $337,450
      award amount
    • 5R01HD079546-07Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Molecular Basis of Human Primordial Germ Cell Specification
      $328,692
      award amount
  5. Carey, Michael F

    Leads 2 awards · $1,220,712

    • 2K12GM106996-06Department: NIH department code
      IRACDA at UCLA
      $860,352
      award amount
    • 5R01GM074701-16Department: NIH department code
      Interplay Between Chromatin and Co-Activator Complexes
      $360,360
      award amount
  6. Mikkola, Hanna Katri Annikki

    Leads 3 awards · $1,007,924

    • 5R01DK100959-07Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Self-Renewal Program in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells
      $415,124
      award amount
    • 1R01DK125097-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping human hematopoietic stem cell development
      $312,000
      award amount
    • 5R01DK121557-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the mechanisms regulating MLLT3 expression in human hematopoietic stem cells
      $280,800
      award amount
  7. Chen, Jau-Nian

    Leads 2 awards · $784,500

    • 5R01HL140472-04Department: NIH department code
      Rtf1-dependent transcriptional regulation of heart development
      $394,500
      award amount
    • 1R01HL155905-01Department: NIH department code
      Impacts of transcription elongation on cardiac gene regulation during homeostasis and regeneration
      $390,000
      award amount
  8. Pisarska, Margareta

    Leads 1 award · $777,176

    • 5U01EB026421-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnostics Based on Circulating Trophoblasts
      $777,176
      award amount
  9. Zhu, Yazhen

    Leads 1 award · $659,686

    • 1R01CA255727-01Department: NIH department code
      Extracellular Vesicle-Based Digital Scoring Assay for Detecting Early-stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma
      $659,686
      award amount
  10. Li, Huiying

    Leads 1 award · $570,780

    • 1R56DE030469-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional study of the periodontal microbiome and host immune response in T2D patients with different levels of glycemic control
      $570,780
      award amount
  11. Lin, Chentao

    Leads 1 award · $556,294

    • 5R01GM056265-24Department: NIH department code
      The signaling mechanisms of Arabidopsis CRY2
      $556,294
      award amount
  12. Hartenstein, Volker

    Leads 1 award · $548,775

    • 2R56NS054814-15Department: NIH department code
      Developmental and functional analysis of neural circuits controlling navigation in Drosophila
      $548,775
      award amount
  13. Pellegrini, Matteo

    Leads 1 award · $540,386

    • 5R01GM123126-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx): Providing an Improved Community-Oriented Molecular Interactions Resource
      $540,386
      award amount
  14. Ardehali, Reza

    Leads 1 award · $532,434

    • 5T32HL069766-19Department: NIH department code
      Vascular Biology Training Grant
      $532,434
      award amount
  15. Graeber, Thomas G

    Leads 1 award · $530,232

    • 5R01CA222877-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Genomic Instability in Lethal Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
      $530,232
      award amount
  16. Hong, Weizhe

    Leads 1 award · $516,413

    • 5R01NS113124-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional Dissection of Neural Circuitry Underlying Parenting Behavior
      $516,413
      award amount
  17. Ernst, Jason

    Leads 1 award · $468,000

    • 5DP1DA044371-05Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the Relationship between Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders from Whole Genome Sequencing Data
      $468,000
      award amount
  18. Kurdistani, Siavash

    Leads 1 award · $452,299

    • 1R01GM140106-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the function of histone H3 as an oxidoreductase enzyme
      $452,299
      award amount
  19. Guo, Feng

    Leads 1 award · $426,633

    • 1R01AI163216-01Department: NIH department code
      Developing three-dimensional antisense oligonucleotide drugs against COVID-19
      $426,633
      award amount
  20. Agopian, Vatche

    Leads 2 awards · $424,988

    • 5R21CA240887-02Department: NIH department code
      Biomimetic NanoVilli Chips for Extracellular Vesicles in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
      $221,408
      award amount
    • 5R21CA235340-03Department: NIH department code
      Click Chemistry-Mediated Microfluidic Sorting for HCC CTCs
      $203,580
      award amount
  21. Christofk, Heather

    Leads 1 award · $408,183

    • 5R01AR070245-04Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Control of Hair Follicle Stem Cell Homeostasis and Tumorigenesis
      $408,183
      award amount
  22. Nakano, Atsushi

    Leads 1 award · $390,000

    • 5R01HL142801-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic regulation of heart formation
      $390,000
      award amount
  23. Koehler, Carla M

    Leads 1 award · $380,542

    • 1R01NS120690-01Department: NIH department code
      Control of calcium flux and mitochondrial fission by the Charcot Marie Tooth disease protein Mfn2.
      $380,542
      award amount
  24. Van Dam, Robert Michael

    Leads 1 award · $379,082

    • 5R33CA240201-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization and validation of integrated microscale technologies for low-cost, automated production of PET molecular imaging tracers for cancer research
      $379,082
      award amount
  25. Sagasti, Alvaro

    Leads 2 awards · $366,792

    • 5R01AR064582-12Department: NIH department code
      Morphogenesis and function of somatosensory axon ensheathment by epidermal cells
      $356,059
      award amount
    • 3R01GM122901-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Cytoskeletal Control of Microridge Morphogenesis on Mucosal Epithelial Cells of the Zebrafish Skin
      $10,733
      award amount
  26. Coller, Hilary A

    Leads 1 award · $359,148

    • 5R01CA221296-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Stromal Autophagy in Cutaneous Melanoma
      $359,148
      award amount
  27. Banerjee, Utpal

    Leads 1 award · $352,275

    • 5R01CA217608-31Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic and signaling control of tumorformation in drosophila
      $352,275
      award amount
  28. Christofk, Heather

    Leads 1 award · $350,158

    • 5R01CA215185-04Department: NIH department code
      Nutrient regulation of cancer cell growth
      $350,158
      award amount
  29. Loo, Joseph A

    Leads 1 award · $347,680

    • 5R01GM103479-17Department: NIH department code
      Mass Spectrometry of Protein Assemblies
      $347,680
      award amount
  30. Clark, Peter Michael

    Leads 1 award · $333,179

    • 5R01NS112287-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-invasive imaging of brain infiltrating T lymphocytes in a mouse model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with PET
      $333,179
      award amount
  31. Wohlschlegel, James Akira

    Leads 1 award · $327,600

    • 5R01GM089778-11Department: NIH department code
      Proteolytic Control of Iron Metabolism by the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase FBXL5
      $327,600
      award amount
  32. Zamudio, Jesse R

    Leads 1 award · $327,600

    • 1R01GM143536-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Genomic Stability by Mammalian Argonaute Proteins
      $327,600
      award amount
  33. Jacobsen, Steven E

    Leads 1 award · $312,000

    • 5R35GM130272-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic gene regulation in Arabidopsis
      $312,000
      award amount
  34. Egea, Pascal Francois

    Leads 1 award · $306,150

    • 5R01GM120173-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Structure and Function of an Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondrion Tether
      $306,150
      award amount
  35. Bhaduri, Aparna

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00NS111731-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Brain Development Through the Lens of Metabolism
      $248,999
      award amount
  36. Shah, Pavak Kirit

    Leads 1 award · $243,989

    • 5R00HD096050-05Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Developmental Mechanisms that Ensure Robustness in Neuronal Patterning
      $243,989
      award amount
  37. Hu, Jimmy Kuang-Hsien

    Leads 1 award · $156,000

    • 1R03DE030205-01Department: NIH department code
      Using single cell transcriptomic analysis to uncover genetic pathways for de novo generation of dental epithelial progenitors
      $156,000
      award amount
  38. Jones, Dana Leanne

    Leads 1 award · $74,343

    • 5R01GM135767-02Department: NIH department code
      Lipid mediated regulation of stem cell behavior and tissue homeostasis
      $74,343
      award amount
  39. Picard, Colette Lafontaine

    Leads 1 award · $66,390

    • 5F32GM136115-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of the function of gene body DNA methylation
      $66,390
      award amount
  40. Weaver, Sara Jean

    Leads 1 award · $65,994

    • 1F32GM143936-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural insights into zinc homeostasis
      $65,994
      award amount
  41. Afasizheva, Anna

    Leads 1 award · $37,842

    • 5F30HD102190-02Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the role of XACT lncRNA in human development
      $37,842
      award amount
  42. Bajar, Bryce T

    Leads 1 award · $37,578

    • 5F30EY029952-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining the function and mechanism of spontaneous network activity during synaptogenesis in the Drosophila visual system
      $37,578
      award amount
  43. Pandolfi, Erica Christine

    Leads 1 award · $35,853

    • 1F32HD105439-01Department: NIH department code
      Restoring Germline Potential to Patients Diagnosed with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
      $35,853
      award amount