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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$9.1M
$9,080,425
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
27
18 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 69 · 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, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Derek Stuart Welsbie

    Leads 5 awards · $2,321,912

    • 5R01EY036458-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of functionalized SARM1 nanobodies for glaucoma

      Principal investigators: Derek Stuart Welsbie (contact PI), Geoffrey A Chang

      $632,862
      award amount
    • 5P30EY022589-14Department: NIH department code
      NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Derek Stuart Welsbie (contact PI), Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch (contact PI), Linda M Zangwill (contact PI), Radha Ayyagari (contact PI), Sonia Jain (contact PI)

      $607,812
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036155-03Department: NIH department code
      Optic Nerve Relays for Vision Restoration and Advancement Optic Nerve Regeneration Research

      Principal investigators: Derek Stuart Welsbie (contact PI), Jiun Lap Do

      $520,935
      award amount
    • 5R01EY029342-08Department: NIH department code
      Kinase Multitargeting for Glaucoma Neuroprotection
      $395,000
      award amount
    • 1S10OD040298-01Department: NIH department code
      Ultracentrifuge to enhance science in the new Andrew & Erna Viterbi Family Vision Research Center
      $165,303
      award amount

  2. Linda M Zangwill

    Leads 2 awards · $1,269,216

    • 5R01EY027510-10Department: NIH department code
      Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS): Glaucoma and High Myopia
      $661,404
      award amount
    • 5P30EY022589-14Department: NIH department code
      NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Derek Stuart Welsbie (contact PI), Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch (contact PI), Linda M Zangwill (contact PI), Radha Ayyagari (contact PI), Sonia Jain (contact PI)

      $607,812
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T35EY033704-05, led by Jolene Rudell.

  3. Radha Ayyagari

    Leads 2 awards · $953,816

    • 5P30EY022589-14Department: NIH department code
      NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Derek Stuart Welsbie (contact PI), Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch (contact PI), Linda M Zangwill (contact PI), Radha Ayyagari (contact PI), Sonia Jain (contact PI)

      $607,812
      award amount
    • 5U24EY037387-02Department: NIH department code
      Expert curation of clinically significant variants in genes for early onset retinal degeneration
      $346,004
      award amount

  4. Mark Christopher

    Leads 1 award · $734,322

    • 4R25OD039836-02Department: NIH department code
      FREEMIND: Focused Research Education and Experience using Multimodal and Interdisciplinary NIH Datasets

      Principal investigators: Mark Christopher (contact PI), Bhavesh Patel

      $734,322
      award amount

  5. Karl J Wahlin

    Leads 1 award · $701,576

    • 1R01EY037472-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Exploration of Retinal Ganglion Endogenous Repair after Injury using Engineered hPSCs
      $701,576
      award amount

  6. Alex Huang

    Leads 1 award · $636,755

    • 5R01EY030501-08Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Variable Aqueous Humor Outflow and Glaucoma Therapies in the Human Eye

      Principal investigators: Alex Huang (contact PI), Hao F Zhang

      $636,755
      award amount

  7. Wonkyu Ju

    Leads 1 award · $618,515

    • 5R01EY034116-04Department: NIH department code
      AIBP-mediated neuroprotection in glaucomatous optic neuropathy

      Principal investigators: Wonkyu Ju (contact PI), Keunyoung Kim, Soo-Ho Choi

      $618,515
      award amount

  8. Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch

    Leads 1 award · $607,812

  9. Sonia Jain

    Leads 1 award · $607,812

  10. Christopher Anthony Girkin

    Leads 1 award · $523,711

  11. Sasan Moghimi Araghi

    Leads 1 award · $515,556

    • 5R01EY034148-05Department: NIH department code
      Monitoring of Glaucoma Patients in Advanced Disease
      $515,556
      award amount

  12. Seth Blackshaw

    Leads 1 award · $499,606

    • 1R01EY039231-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying barriers to retinal Muller glial reprogramming
      $499,606
      award amount

  13. Nicholas Oesch

    Leads 1 award · $435,327

    • 5R01EY029259-07Department: NIH department code
      Circuit Engagement in Prosthetically Driven Retina
      $435,327
      award amount

  14. William R. Freeman

    Leads 1 award · $413,374

    • 5R01EY035262-04Department: NIH department code
      Intracellular RNA Nanoparticle Therapeutics to Treat Retinal Neovascularization

      Principal investigators: William R. Freeman (contact PI), Michael J Sailor

      $413,374
      award amount

  15. Jolene Rudell

    Leads 2 awards · $289,541

    • 5K08EY034930-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of a craniosynostosis associated fibroblast growth factor receptor mutation in extraocular muscles
      $268,802
      award amount
    • 5T35EY033704-05Department: NIH department code
      Short-Term Research training In Vision and Eye health (STRIVE)

      Principal investigators: Jolene Rudell (contact PI), Linda M Zangwill

      $20,739
      award amount

  16. Christopher B Toomey

    Leads 1 award · $254,732

    • 5K08EY035322-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Bruch Membrane Heparan Sulfate in Drusenogenesis in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
      $254,732
      award amount

  17. Sarah Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $84,148

    • 5F32EY036715-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of IGF-1R in acute and chronic thyroid eye disease
      $84,148
      award amount

  18. Sean Chapman

    Leads 1 award · $43,942

    • 5F30EY036720-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of the Thousand and One Kinases in Retinal Ganglion Cell Death
      $43,942
      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.