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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$4.3M
$4,281,433
Awards
11
FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
8
6 lead a grant here, 2 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

6 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. Hung Ton-That

    Leads 3 awards · $1,281,169

    • 5R01DE033900-03Department: NIH department code
      Assembly and function of outer membrane tubules in Fusobacterium nucleatum
      $441,935
      award amount
    • 5R01DE017382-18Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Assembly on the Cell Surface of Actinomyces
      $428,528
      award amount
    • 1R21DE036466-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering Fusobacterium-mediated oral disease mechanisms via genome-wide analysis

      Principal investigators: Hung Ton-That (contact PI), Yi-Wei Chen

      $410,706
      award amount
  2. Vivek Shetty

    Leads 2 awards · $984,094

    • 5UH3DE028723-06Department: NIH department code
      Personalized Digital Behavior Change Interventions to Promote Oral Health
      $774,704
      award amount
    • 5R25DA038167-12Department: NIH department code
      Training Institutes for mobile health (mHealth) methodologies
      $209,390
      award amount
  3. Jimmy Kuang-Hsien Hu

    Leads 2 awards · $809,860

    • 1R01DE035572-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of early mandibular morphogenesis by the homeobox protein MSX1
      $449,886
      award amount
    • 5R01DE030471-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanical regulation of transcription in dental epithelial stem cells through cell packing and tissue forces
      $359,974
      award amount
  4. Min Lee

    Leads 2 awards · $809,030

    • 5R01DE027332-07Department: 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
    • 5R01DE031711-05Department: NIH department code
      Hydrogel delivery of DBM and exosome mimetics for bone repair
      $370,500
      award amount
  5. Yvonne L Kapila

    Leads 1 award · $216,337

    • 5K12DE027830-09Department: NIH department code
      UCLA Dental Specialty PhD Program
      $216,337
      award amount
  6. Spyridon Peter Hasiakos

    Leads 1 award · $180,943

    • 5K08DE034493-02Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting of Apical Periodontal T-Cells in Chronic Oral Inflammation
      $180,943
      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.

  • Tara L Aghaloo

    Co-investigator on 5R01DE027332-07, led by Min Lee

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

  • Yi-Wei Chen

    Co-investigator on 1R21DE036466-01, led by Hung Ton-That

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