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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$13.6M
$13,611,567
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
23
18 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#20
of 90 · 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 Pathology 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. Mana M Parast

    Leads 2 awards · $1,992,239

    • 5UG1HD119608-02Department: NIH department code
      UC San Diego Center for Stillbirth Prevention: Maternal and Placental Determinants of Fetal Growth Restriction

      Principal investigators: Mana M Parast (contact PI), Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman

      $1,369,830
      award amount
    • 5R01HD111787-04Department: NIH department code
      Trophoblast progenitor heterogeneity and function in normal and Trisomy 21-affected placentae
      $622,409
      award amount

  2. Subhojit Roy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,842,848

    • 2RF1NS111978-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiologic roles of alpha-synuclein at the synapse
      $1,175,353
      award amount
    • 4U01NS134063-02Department: NIH department code
      Testing Optimal Gene Editor for an Alzheimer's CRISPR therapeutic.
      $667,495
      award amount

  3. Dong-Er Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,435,809

    • 1R01CA299139-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identification of small molecule activators of Type I interferon signaling for cancer treatment

      Principal investigators: Dong-Er Zhang (contact PI), Susanne Heynen-Genel

      $771,811
      award amount
    • 1R01CA308285-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Targeting of the Type I Interferon Pathway to Improve Efficacy of Cancer Therapies
      $663,998
      award amount

  4. Ina Stelzer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,097,971

    • 1R01HD121701-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of dopamine in neuroimmunoendocrine mechanisms of spontaneous preterm birth
      $657,971
      award amount
    • 1R21HD120965-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Uterine neuronal innervation dynamics and immune function in the transition to motherhood

      Principal investigators: Ina Stelzer (contact PI), Vivien Ileana Maltez

      $440,000
      award amount

  5. Shizhen Emily Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,027,435

    • 5R01CA295898-02Department: NIH department code
      Systemic Glucocorticoid Signaling Induced by Breast Cancer Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles
      $616,801
      award amount
    • 5R01CA266486-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of breast cancer secreted miRNA in brain metastasis
      $410,634
      award amount

  6. Judith A Varner

    Leads 2 awards · $1,020,601

    • 5R01CA226909-08Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting of Macrophage PI3Kgamma in HNSCC

      Principal investigators: Judith A Varner (contact PI), Kathryn Ann Gold

      $522,215
      award amount
    • 5R01DE027325-10Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the innate immune response in HNSCC
      $498,386
      award amount

  7. Saravanan Raju

    Leads 3 awards · $820,199

    • 1DP2AI200977-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Basis for Arboviral fitness in vector and reservoir hosts
      $480,000
      award amount
    • 7K08AI187716-02Department: NIH department code
      Building an atlas of B cell mediated protective immunity to alphaviruses
      $170,639
      award amount
    • 5K08AI187716-03Department: NIH department code
      Building an atlas of B cell mediated protective immunity to alphaviruses
      $169,560
      award amount

  8. Christina Sigurdson

    Leads 1 award · $599,466

    • 5R37NS076896-14Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Prion Spread and Neuronal Toxicity
      $599,466
      award amount

  9. Gerald Patrick Morris

    Leads 1 award · $598,208

    • 5U01AI191783-02Department: NIH department code
      T Cell Alloreactivity and Organ Transplant Risk Stratification Models Using High-Resolution HLA and Genomic Data

      Principal investigators: Gerald Patrick Morris (contact PI), Hannah Kathryn Carter

      $598,208
      award amount

  10. Mariko Horii

    Leads 1 award · $590,367

    • 5R01HD114720-03Department: NIH department code
      Stem Cell-based Modeling of Placental Defects associated with Early-Onset Preeclampsia
      $590,367
      award amount

  11. Steven L. Gonias

    Leads 1 award · $577,416

    • 5R01NS136112-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Neurodegeneration by Nonpathogenic Cellular Prion Protein and LRP1
      $577,416
      award amount

  12. Hiutung Chu

    Leads 1 award · $534,121

    • 5R01AI167860-05Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial adaptions in host-microbe interactions.
      $534,121
      award amount

  13. Richard L. Klemke

    Leads 1 award · $477,728

    • 5R01EB036986-02Department: NIH department code
      Bioengineering of Enucleated Cell Therapeutics for Treating Inflammatory Diseases
      $477,728
      award amount

  14. Nigel A. Calcutt

    Leads 1 award · $439,875

    • 1R21NS146792-01Department: NIH department code
      Cholinergic regulation of epidermal neurons
      $439,875
      award amount

  15. Cole John Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $313,779

    • 5R01NS138924-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of phase separation in neuronal heterochromatin
      $313,779
      award amount

  16. Hiromi Inoue Wettersten

    Leads 1 award · $120,000

    • 1R03OD039968-01Department: NIH department code
      Establishing pre-clinical models of osimertinib resistance-mediated brain metastasis
      $120,000
      award amount

  17. Cindy Beatriz Jennifer Barba

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32HD120014-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigate the effects of rare damaging mutations in TGFB latent complex proteins found in preeclamptic placentas
      $79,348
      award amount

  18. Renee Oles

    Leads 1 award · $44,157

    • 1F31DK143742-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Host inflammation drives adaptive evolution in gut bacteria
      $44,157
      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.