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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$9.3M
$9,290,507
Awards
21
FY2025 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
28
14 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Dentistry row of the University of California, Los Angeles page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. David T Wong

    Leads 3 awards · $3,261,979

    Also a principal investigator on 5UH3DE032208-03, led by Sunil D Kapila; 5T90DE030860-05, led by Hung Ton-That; 5R90DE031531-05, led by Hung Ton-That.

  2. Hung Ton-That

    Leads 4 awards · $1,528,257

    • 5R01DE033900-02Department: NIH department code
      Assembly and function of outer membrane tubules in Fusobacterium nucleatum
      $471,710
      award amount
    • 5T90DE030860-05Department: NIH department code
      UCLA Dentist-Scientist and Oral Health-Researcher Training Program

      Principal investigators: Hung Ton-That (contact PI), David T Wong

      $455,205
      award amount
    • 5R01DE017382-17Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Assembly on the Cell Surface of Actinomyces
      $428,528
      award amount
    • 5R90DE031531-05Department: NIH department code
      UCLA Dentist-Scientist and Oral Health-Researcher Training Program

      Principal investigators: Hung Ton-That (contact PI), David T Wong

      $172,814
      award amount
  3. Vivek Shetty

    Leads 2 awards · $960,585

    • 5UH3DE028723-05Department: NIH department code
      Personalized Digital Behavior Change Interventions to Promote Oral Health
      $751,195
      award amount
    • 5R25DA038167-11Department: NIH department code
      Training Institutes for mobile health (mHealth) methodologies
      $209,390
      award amount
  4. Min Lee

    Leads 2 awards · $809,030

    • 2R01DE027332-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Tribbles homolog 3 and BMP-2 induced bone formation

      Principal investigators: Min Lee (contact PI), Tara L Aghaloo

      $438,530
      award amount
    • 5R01DE031711-04Department: NIH department code
      Hydrogel delivery of DBM and exosome mimetics for bone repair
      $370,500
      award amount
  5. Sunil D Kapila

    Leads 1 award · $587,470

  6. Reuben Han-Kyu Kim

    Leads 1 award · $370,500

    • 5R01DE030536-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Alveolar Bone Marrow MSC Senescence in Skeletal Aging and Periodontitis
      $370,500
      award amount
  7. Jimmy Kuang-Hsien Hu

    Leads 1 award · $360,279

    • 5R01DE030471-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanical regulation of transcription in dental epithelial stem cells through cell packing and tissue forces
      $360,279
      award amount
  8. Feng Li

    Leads 1 award · $236,250

    • 5R21DE034146-02Department: NIH department code
      The function role of salivary piRNAs in oral wound healing
      $236,250
      award amount
  9. Yong Kim

    Leads 1 award · $226,406

    • 5R21AA031366-02Department: NIH department code
      Chronic alcohol effects on the biogenesis, distribution, and RNA content of astrocytic exosomes

      Principal investigators: Yong Kim (contact PI), Igor Spigelman

      $226,406
      award amount
  10. Yvonne L Kapila

    Leads 1 award · $217,558

    • 5K12DE027830-08Department: NIH department code
      UCLA Dental Specialty PhD Program
      $217,558
      award amount
  11. Nini Chaichanasakul Tran

    Leads 1 award · $196,875

    • 5R21DE033799-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Brain-Oral-Microbiome Axis in Adverse Childhood Experiences-associated Dental Caries in Children
      $196,875
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21DE034129-02, led by Renate Lux.

  12. Renate Lux

    Leads 1 award · $196,875

    • 5R21DE034129-02Department: NIH department code
      Effect of aerosolized tobacco and cannabis products on Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans interkingdom cariogenicity

      Principal investigators: Renate Lux (contact PI), Nini Chaichanasakul Tran

      $196,875
      award amount
  13. Spyridon Peter Hasiakos

    Leads 1 award · $180,943

    • 1K08DE034493-01Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting of Apical Periodontal T-Cells in Chronic Oral Inflammation
      $180,943
      award amount
  14. Yan Wang

    Leads 1 award · $157,500

    • 5R03DE033631-02Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal Oral Microbiome for HIV/HEU/HUU Children Aged 3-4 in Western Kenya
      $157,500
      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.

  • Denise R. Aberle

    Co-investigator on 4U01CA233370-08, led by David T Wong

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

  • Fang Wei

    Co-investigator on 4U01CA233370-08, led by David T Wong

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

  • Kostyantyn Krysan

    Co-investigator on 4U01CA233370-08, led by David T Wong

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

  • William Hsu

    Co-investigator on 4U01CA233370-08, led by David T Wong

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Xiaojing Yang

    Co-investigator on 4U01CA233370-08, led by David T Wong

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

  • Matteo Pellegrini

    Co-investigator on 5UH3DE032208-03, led by Sunil D Kapila; 5R25DE030117-05, led by David T Wong

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Nidhi Bhutani

    Co-investigator on 5UH3DE032208-03, led by Sunil D Kapila

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Sharon Aronovich

    Co-investigator on 5UH3DE032208-03, led by Sunil D Kapila

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

  • Tara L Aghaloo

    Co-investigator on 2R01DE027332-06A1, led by Min Lee

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

  • Alexander Hoffmann

    Co-investigator on 5R25DE030117-05, led by David T Wong

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jeanette Christine Papp

    Co-investigator on 5R25DE030117-05, led by David T Wong

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

  • Igor Spigelman

    Co-investigator on 5R21AA031366-02, led by Yong Kim

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

  • David S. Chia

    Co-investigator on 5R21DE033901-02, led by David T Wong

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

  • Robert Hal Scofield

    Co-investigator on 5R21DE033901-02, led by David T Wong

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads