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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$13.1M
$13,091,177
Awards
29
FY2025 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
28
24 lead a grant here, 4 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 Chemistry row of the University of California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

24 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. Brian Matthew Zid

    Leads 1 award · $1,345,188

    • 1R01GM157531-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the role of eIF5A in mitochondrial function
      $1,345,188
      award amount

  2. Michael D. Burkart

    Leads 4 awards · $1,133,780

    • 5R01AI168993-04Department: NIH department code
      Enabling synthetic biology through single cell functional genomics

      Principal investigators: Michael D. Burkart (contact PI), Ramunas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke

      $423,173
      award amount
    • 5R01GM095970-14Department: NIH department code
      Protein-protein interactions in natural product biosynthesis
      $356,914
      award amount
    • 5T32GM146648-04Department: NIH department code
      Chemistry-Biology Interfaces at UCSD

      Principal investigators: Michael D. Burkart (contact PI), Alexis C. Komor

      $182,128
      award amount
    • 5R21AI180648-02Department: NIH department code
      Cryptic bacterial carrier proteins bridging fatty acid synthase
      $171,565
      award amount

  3. Elizabeth A. Komives

    Leads 2 awards · $1,107,592

    • 5R01GM141182-04Department: NIH department code
      The landscape of NFκB transcription dynamics

      Principal investigators: Elizabeth A. Komives (contact PI), Peter Guy Wolynes

      $562,648
      award amount
    • 5T32GM139795-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Grant at UC San Diego

      Principal investigators: Elizabeth A. Komives (contact PI), Jin Zhang

      $544,944
      award amount

  4. Fleur Marcia Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $948,000

    • 4DP2NS132610-02Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Control of Misfolded Protein Fate
      $948,000
      award amount

  5. Rommie E Amaro

    Leads 1 award · $658,052

    • 5R01AI179188-03Department: NIH department code
      Multiscale Computational Microscopy of HIV-1
      $658,052
      award amount

  6. Michael J Sailor

    Leads 1 award · $649,115

    • 5R01AI132413-07Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage-targeting Nanoplatforms as Immunotherapy against Pulmonary Infections
      $649,115
      award amount

  7. F. Akif Tezcan

    Leads 2 awards · $625,723

    • 5R01GM138884-06Department: NIH department code
      Design and Evolution of Metal-Based Functions in Supramolecular Protein Scaffolds
      $316,402
      award amount
    • 5R01GM148607-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Energy Transduction and Substrate Activation in Biological Nitrogen Fixation
      $309,321
      award amount

  8. Jerry Yang

    Leads 1 award · $572,646

    • 4R01AG077802-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of selective amyloid-responsive fluorescent probes
      $572,646
      award amount

  9. Lisa M Jones

    Leads 1 award · $571,502

    • 5R35GM144324-04Department: NIH department code
      Protein Footprinting Coupled to Mass Spectrometry for the Study of Protein Higher Order Structure in Complex Model Systems
      $571,502
      award amount

  10. Gourisankar Ghosh

    Leads 1 award · $513,448

    • 5R01AI163327-04Department: NIH department code
      Suppressing Inflammation by Blocking IKK Oligomer
      $513,448
      award amount

  11. Kamil Godula

    Leads 1 award · $487,937

    • 5R01GM145913-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell membrane-targeting proteoglycan chimeras as selective growth factor signaling actuators
      $487,937
      award amount

  12. Galia Debelouchina

    Leads 1 award · $473,834

    • 2R35GM138382-06Department: NIH department code
      Structural biology of chromatin in vitro and in cells
      $473,834
      award amount

  13. Alexis C. Komor

    Leads 1 award · $412,289

    • 2R35GM138317-06Department: NIH department code
      Development of novel precision genome editing tools and strategies for functional investigation of genetic variants
      $412,289
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM146648-04, led by Michael D. Burkart.

  14. Itay Budin

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM142960-05Department: NIH department code
      Lipidic drivers of organelle function and dysregulation
      $395,000
      award amount

  15. Lalit Deshmukh

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM147708-04Department: NIH department code
      The Functional Interplay Between Phase Separation, Fibrillization, and Posttranslational Modifications of ALIX
      $395,000
      award amount

  16. Navtej Singh Toor

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM141706-05Department: NIH department code
      Structural Biology of Retrotransposition and pre-mRNA Splicing
      $395,000
      award amount

  17. Neal Krishna Devaraj

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM141939-05Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating cellular dark matter through the development of novel chemical tools
      $395,000
      award amount

  18. Tatiana Vladimirovna Mishanina

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM142785-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of transcription and related gene expression processes in bacteria and human mitochondria
      $395,000
      award amount

  19. Yitzhak Tor

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R35GM139407-05Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescent nucleosides, nucleotides and oligonucleotides
      $395,000
      award amount

  20. Simpson Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $358,204

    • 5R35GM141864-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Protein Synthesis and Translational Control
      $358,204
      award amount

  21. Julia Stauber

    Leads 1 award · $347,086

    • 1R35GM160296-01Department: NIH department code
      Precision, Functional Glyconanoassemblies through Supramolecular Design
      $347,086
      award amount

  22. Alex Joseph Guseman

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM145970-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing Lectins as Inhibitors of Coronavirus Spike Proteins
      $249,000
      award amount

  23. Seth M Cohen

    Leads 1 award · $221,799

    • 5R21AI180103-02Department: NIH department code
      Inhibitors of Cu-only Superoxide Dismutases as Novel Antifungals
      $221,799
      award amount

  24. Lydia Rose Chambers

    Leads 1 award · $45,982

    • 1F31AI194603-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of gene regulation in bacterial defense islands
      $45,982
      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.

  • Peter Guy Wolynes

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM141182-04, led by Elizabeth A. Komives

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

  • Jin Zhang

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM139795-05, led by Elizabeth A. Komives

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Ramunas Stepanauskas

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI168993-04, led by Michael D. Burkart

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

  • Tanja Woyke

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI168993-04, led by Michael D. Burkart

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