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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$8.9M
$8,874,127
Awards
26
FY2025 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
26
15 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#11
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, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

15 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 3 awards · $1,528,297

    • 1R01EY036458-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of functionalized SARM1 nanobodies for glaucoma

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

      $643,952
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036155-02Department: 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

      $489,345
      award amount
    • 5R01EY029342-07Department: NIH department code
      Kinase Multitargeting for Glaucoma Neuroprotection
      $395,000
      award amount

  2. Linda M Zangwill

    Leads 5 awards · $1,330,802

    • 5R01EY027510-09Department: NIH department code
      Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS): Glaucoma and High Myopia
      $662,863
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034146-04Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Artificial Intelligence to Predict Glaucomatous Progression and Surgical Intervention

      Principal investigators: Linda M Zangwill (contact PI), Mark Christopher, Sally Liu Baxter

      $344,179
      award amount
    • 3P30EY022589-13S1Department: NIH department code
      NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research
      $147,443
      award amount
    • 3R01EY034146-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Artificial Intelligence to Predict Glaucomatous Progression and Surgical Intervention

      Principal investigators: Linda M Zangwill (contact PI), Mark Christopher, Sally Liu Baxter

      $103,363
      award amount
    • 5T32EY026590-10Department: NIH department code
      Translational Vision Research Training at UCSD
      $72,954
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T35EY033704-04, led by Jolene Rudell.

  3. Radha Ayyagari

    Leads 2 awards · $1,026,014

    • 5R01EY031663-05Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the molecular pathology of retinal degeneration through single cell genomics

      Principal investigators: Radha Ayyagari (contact PI), Kelly A Frazer

      $665,490
      award amount
    • 1U24EY037387-01Department: NIH department code
      Expert curation of clinically significant variants in genes for early onset retinal degeneration
      $360,524
      award amount

  4. Christopher B Toomey

    Leads 2 awards · $893,395

    • 1R21EY037260-01Department: NIH department code
      Bruch's Membrane-On-A-Chip to Study Drusen Formation in AMD
      $638,625
      award amount
    • 5K08EY035322-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of Bruch Membrane Heparan Sulfate in Drusenogenesis in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
      $254,770
      award amount

  5. Wonkyu Ju

    Leads 2 awards · $676,867

    • 5R01EY034116-03Department: NIH department code
      AIBP-mediated neuroprotection in glaucomatous optic neuropathy

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

      $622,812
      award amount
    • 3R01EY034116-03S1Department: NIH department code
      AIBP-mediated neuroprotection in glaucomatous optic neuropathy

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

      $54,055
      award amount

  6. Alex Huang

    Leads 1 award · $674,675

    • 2R01EY030501-07Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Variable Aqueous Humor Outflow and Glaucoma Therapies in the Human Eye

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

      $674,675
      award amount

  7. Mark Christopher

    Leads 2 awards · $533,459

    • 1R25OD039836-01Department: NIH department code
      FREEMIND: Focused Research Education and Experience using Multimodal and Interdisciplinary NIH Datasets

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

      $284,459
      award amount
    • 5R00EY030942-05Department: NIH department code
      Deep Learning Approaches to Detect Glaucoma and Predict Progression from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
      $249,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY034146-04, led by Linda M Zangwill; 3R01EY034146-04S1, led by Linda M Zangwill.

  8. Christopher Anthony Girkin

    Leads 1 award · $524,518

  9. Sasan Moghimi Araghi

    Leads 1 award · $438,222

    • 5R01EY034148-04Department: NIH department code
      Monitoring of Glaucoma Patients in Advanced Disease
      $438,222
      award amount

  10. Nicholas Oesch

    Leads 1 award · $417,090

    • 2R01EY029259-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Circuit Engagement in Prosthetically Driven Retina
      $417,090
      award amount

  11. William R. Freeman

    Leads 1 award · $413,374

    • 5R01EY035262-03Department: 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

  12. Jolene Rudell

    Leads 2 awards · $294,855

    • 5K08EY034930-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of a craniosynostosis associated fibroblast growth factor receptor mutation in extraocular muscles
      $268,802
      award amount
    • 5T35EY033704-04Department: NIH department code
      Short-Term Research training In Vision and Eye health (STRIVE)

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

      $26,053
      award amount

  13. Sarah Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $80,224

    • 5F32EY036715-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of IGF-1R in acute and chronic thyroid eye disease
      $80,224
      award amount

  14. Sean Chapman

    Leads 1 award · $42,334

    • 1F30EY036720-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of the Thousand and One Kinases in Retinal Ganglion Cell Death
      $42,334
      award amount

  15. Robert N Weinreb

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5K12EY024225-10Department: NIH department code
      Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Career Development K12 Program
      $1
      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.