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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$6.5M
$6,464,750
Awards
16
FY2025 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
17
14 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#19
of 67 · 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 Ophthalmology 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 S Williams

    Leads 2 awards · $934,378

    • 1R01EY036104-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Outer Segment tip ingestion by the RPE
      $475,442
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033035-04Department: NIH department code
      Cellular Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Disk Morphogenesis
      $458,936
      award amount

  2. Alapakkam P Sampath

    Leads 2 awards · $781,688

    • 1R01EY036811-01Department: NIH department code
      Physiology of Retinal Degeneration
      $624,230
      award amount
    • 5T32EY007026-49Department: NIH department code
      Vision Science Training Program
      $157,458
      award amount

  3. Joseph Louis Demer

    Leads 1 award · $670,248

    • 5R01EY008313-35Department: NIH department code
      Biomechanical Analysis in Strabismus Surgery
      $670,248
      award amount

  4. Sophie Deng

    Leads 1 award · $627,319

    • 2R01EY021797-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of Stem Cell-based Therapies for Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency
      $627,319
      award amount

  5. Alexander C Huk

    Leads 1 award · $511,993

  6. Gregory Darin Field

    Leads 1 award · $504,417

    • 5R01EY034004-03Department: NIH department code
      Visual signaling from retina to superior colliculus

      Principal investigators: Gregory Darin Field (contact PI), Marc A Sommer

      $504,417
      award amount

  7. Irena Tsui

    Leads 1 award · $393,248

    • 5R01EY033794-03Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography to Assess the Effects of Postnatal Exposures on Retinal Development and Predict Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

      Principal investigators: Irena Tsui (contact PI), Alison Chu

      $393,248
      award amount

  8. Xian-Jie Yang

    Leads 1 award · $390,000

    • 5R01EY026319-09Department: NIH department code
      Metabolism and neuronal viability of the retina
      $390,000
      award amount

  9. Ava K Bittner

    Leads 1 award · $359,984

    • 5R01EY034627-03Department: NIH department code
      Beacon Sensors and Telerehabilitation to Assess and Improve use of Devices (BeST-AID) for Low Vision
      $359,984
      award amount

  10. Gordon Lee Fain

    Leads 1 award · $351,000

    • 5R01EY001844-48Department: NIH department code
      Physiology of Photoreceptors
      $351,000
      award amount

  11. Yi-Rong Peng

    Leads 1 award · $334,688

    • 5R01EY035324-02Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Position and Connection in the Retina
      $334,688
      award amount

  12. Edmund Tsui

    Leads 1 award · $246,583

    • 5K23EY032990-05Department: NIH department code
      Objective Measures of Intraocular Inflammation in Pediatric Anterior Uveitis
      $246,583
      award amount

  13. Adrian C Au

    Leads 1 award · $244,379

    • 1K23EY037861-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Variation in AMD Progression and Treatment Response
      $244,379
      award amount

  14. Nan Wu Hultgren

    Leads 1 award · $114,825

    • 5K99EY035758-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding how mitochondrial interaction with other organelles in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) affect its function in the outer retina
      $114,825
      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.