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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$17.2M
$17,236,550
Awards
33
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
43
27 lead a grant here, 16 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 Engineering row of the University of California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 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. Zhaowei Liu

    Leads 1 award · $1,830,401

    • 1R01GM163139-01Department: NIH department code
      Plasmonic Enhanced Raman Structured Illumination Microscopy
      $1,830,401
      award amount

  2. Nicole Franziska Steinmetz

    Leads 3 awards · $1,588,802

    • 5R01CA293936-03Department: NIH department code
      CPMV-Polymer Devices to Enhance the Outcomes of Intratumoral Immunotherapy

      Principal investigators: Nicole Franziska Steinmetz (contact PI), Jonathan Kyle Pokorski

      $638,352
      award amount
    • 5R01HL175766-02Department: NIH department code
      Nanotechnology-based cardiovascular vaccines
      $606,852
      award amount
    • 5R01CA224605-10Department: NIH department code
      Dual-pronged nano-drug delivery using plant virus-like particles
      $343,598
      award amount

  3. Shankar Subramaniam

    Leads 1 award · $1,400,000

    • 5U24DK141185-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolomics Workbench - National Metabolomics Data Repository
      $1,400,000
      award amount

  4. Duygu Kuzum

    Leads 1 award · $1,221,187

  5. Lingyan Shi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,094,889

    • 1R01AG086548-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Lympnoids tissue senescence and multimodal imaging using REDCAT

      Principal investigators: Lingyan Shi (contact PI), Rong Fan, Vishwa Deep Dixit

      $700,795
      award amount
    • 5R01GM149976-04Department: NIH department code
      Sugar Probed SRS Volumetric imaging of Metabolic Activities
      $394,094
      award amount

  6. Brian Alberto Aguado

    Leads 1 award · $960,000

    • 4DP2HL173948-02Department: NIH department code
      Probing sex differences in myocardial fibrosis at multiple length scales using biomaterials
      $960,000
      award amount

  7. Liangfang Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $720,035

    • 1R01AI191459-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Living Microrobot for Active Therapeutic Delivery to Treat Severe Pulmonary Infections

      Principal investigators: Liangfang Zhang (contact PI), Joseph Wang, Victor Nizet

      $720,035
      award amount

  8. Prashant Mali

    Leads 1 award · $665,655

    • 5R01HG012351-04Department: NIH department code
      Next generation massively multiplexed combinatorial genetic screens

      Principal investigators: Prashant Mali (contact PI), Trey Ideker

      $665,655
      award amount

  9. Shaochen Chen

    Leads 1 award · $632,740

    • 5R01HD112026-04Department: NIH department code
      Pre-clinical validation of 3D-printed nerve conduits for pediatric peripheral nerve repair

      Principal investigators: Shaochen Chen (contact PI), Quyen Nguyen

      $632,740
      award amount

  10. Jeff M Hasty

    Leads 2 awards · $631,198

    • 5R01CA241728-07Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial biosensors for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers

      Principal investigators: Jeff M Hasty (contact PI), Rob Knight

      $511,174
      award amount
    • 3R01CA241728-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial biosensors for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers

      Principal investigators: Jeff M Hasty (contact PI), Rob Knight

      $120,024
      award amount

  11. Andrew D. McCulloch

    Leads 2 awards · $614,177

    • 5T32EB009380-18Department: NIH department code
      Training in Multi-scale Analysis of Biological Structure and Function

      Principal investigators: Andrew D. McCulloch (contact PI), Padmini Rangamani

      $310,997
      award amount
    • 5T32HL160507-05Department: NIH department code
      Training in Bioengineering Research and Technology Development in Cardiovascular in Cardiopulmonary Health and Disease

      Principal investigators: Andrew D. McCulloch (contact PI), Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein, Karen L Christman

      $303,180
      award amount

  12. Sheng Zhong

    Leads 1 award · $610,686

    • 5R01HD107206-05Department: NIH department code
      Single Cell Tracking of 3D Epigenetic Landscape Evolution During Embryonic Development

      Principal investigators: Sheng Zhong (contact PI), Yingxiao Wang

      $610,686
      award amount

  13. Michael Yip

    Leads 1 award · $606,851

    • 5R01CA278703-04Department: NIH department code
      Automated Planning and Robotic Delivery of Needle Biopsies under CT Image Guidance
      $606,851
      award amount

  14. Adam J Engler

    Leads 2 awards · $569,510

    • 5R01CA280279-03Department: NIH department code
      Material Stiffness Directs Oral Cancer Migration

      Principal investigators: Adam J Engler (contact PI), Marcelo Lazzaron Lamers

      $457,460
      award amount
    • 3R01CA280279-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Material Stiffness Directs Oral Cancer Migration

      Principal investigators: Adam J Engler (contact PI), Marcelo Lazzaron Lamers

      $112,050
      award amount

  15. Karen L Christman

    Leads 1 award · $568,165

    • 5R01HL139001-08Department: NIH department code
      MMP responsive polymeric materials for treating acute myocardial infarction

      Principal investigators: Karen L Christman (contact PI), Nathan Claude Gianneschi

      $568,165
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL160507-05, led by Andrew D. McCulloch.

  16. Fanny Chapelin

    Leads 1 award · $547,285

    • 1R01EB039044-01Department: NIH department code
      Magnetic resonance imaging methods to capture tolerogenic cell therapy fate in preclinical and ex vivo human transplant models
      $547,285
      award amount

  17. Francisco J Contijoch

    Leads 1 award · $538,803

    • 5R01HL162671-05Department: NIH department code
      Improved MRI guidance of pediatric catheterization via autonomous multi-beat data synthesis
      $538,803
      award amount

  18. Vira Kravets

    Leads 1 award · $501,246

    • 1R01DK148909-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of alpha-beta cell communication in the functional heterogeneity of beta cells in health and T2D
      $501,246
      award amount

  19. Zeinab Jahed

    Leads 1 award · $381,176

    • 1R35GM166353-01Department: NIH department code
      Nanoscale tools to study membrane damage and repair and enable intracellular sensing
      $381,176
      award amount

  20. Padmini Rangamani

    Leads 1 award · $342,910

    • 5R01MH139350-03Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Biophysical modeling of axonal morphology and function
      $342,910
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EB009380-18, led by Andrew D. McCulloch.

  21. Pengtao Xie

    Leads 1 award · $342,330

    • 5R35GM157217-02Department: NIH department code
      Develop Multi-modal Foundation Models for Sepsis Early Detection
      $342,330
      award amount

  22. Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein

    Leads 1 award · $331,800

    • 5R01AG083015-04Department: NIH department code
      Attenuation of Multiorgan Dysfunction after Shock in the Aged

      Principal investigators: Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein (contact PI), Erik Kistler

      $331,800
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL160507-05, led by Andrew D. McCulloch.

  23. Kolade Adebowale

    Leads 1 award · $247,257

    • 5R00GM151568-04Department: NIH department code
      BIOPHYSICAL CUES SHAPING MACROPHAGE AND T-CELL FUNCTIONS
      $247,257
      award amount

  24. Oscar Vazquez Mena

    Leads 1 award · $181,010

    • 5R21EB036218-02Department: NIH department code
      Subwavelength ultrasound focusing using negative index refraction metamaterials
      $181,010
      award amount

  25. Philip Emmanuele

    Leads 1 award · $43,565

    • 1F31AI197798-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Acinetobacter baylyi as a biosensing platform for viral detection
      $43,565
      award amount

  26. Rayyan Gorashi

    Leads 1 award · $43,272

    • 5F31HL176153-02Department: NIH department code
      Decoupling sex chromosome and sex hormone regulation of cardiac myofibroblast activation
      $43,272
      award amount

  27. Reem Khojah

    Leads 1 award · $21,600

    • 1R25EB038215-01Department: NIH department code
      Progressive Clinical Team-Based Design and Skill-Building Across All Undergraduate Levels Assisted by Clinical Digital Twins
      $21,600
      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.