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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$70.7M
$70,742,878
Awards
89
FY2024 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
77
48 lead a grant here, 29 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 105 · 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 Pediatrics row of the University of California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

48 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. Christina Chambers

    Leads 5 awards · $11,780,987

    • 3U24DA055325-04S2Department: NIH department code
      The Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Administrative Core

      Principal investigators: Christina Chambers (contact PI), Charles Alexander Nelson

      $5,106,664
      award amount
    • 5U24DA055325-04Department: NIH department code
      The Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Administrative Core

      Principal investigators: Christina Chambers (contact PI), Charles Alexander Nelson

      $4,853,207
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029594-03Department: NIH department code
      Maternal mediators of fetal growth restriction linked to prenatal alcohol exposure

      Principal investigators: Christina Chambers (contact PI), Louise Chang Laurent, Rajesh C Miranda

      $638,960
      award amount
    • 3U24DA055325-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Administrative Core

      Principal investigators: Christina Chambers (contact PI), Charles Alexander Nelson

      $637,482
      award amount
    • 5U01AA014835-21Department: NIH department code
      Whole Body Effects of PAE Across the Life Span: Early Markers of & Clinical Interventions for Children and Adolescents in Ukraine
      $544,674
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 3P50HD106463-03S1, led by Adriana H Tremoulet; 3P50HD106463-04S1, led by Adriana H Tremoulet.

  2. Adriana H Tremoulet

    Leads 4 awards · $7,145,313

    • 3P50HD106463-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of Antibiotics in Mothers and their Breastfed Infants Using Pharmacomicrobiomic and Metabolomic Analyses

      Principal investigators: Adriana H Tremoulet (contact PI), Christina Chambers, Lars Bode, Shirley M Tsunoda, Victor Nizet

      $3,465,000
      award amount
    • 3P50HD106463-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of Antibiotics in Mothers and their Breastfed Infants Using Pharmacomicrobiomic and Metabolomic Analyses

      Principal investigators: Adriana H Tremoulet (contact PI), Christina Chambers, Lars Bode, Shirley M Tsunoda, Victor Nizet

      $3,465,000
      award amount
    • 5T32HD087978-09Department: NIH department code
      Academic Training in Therapeutic Advancement for Child Health (ATTACH)

      Principal investigators: Adriana H Tremoulet (contact PI), Victor Nizet

      $207,813
      award amount
    • 1R13HL174111-01Department: NIH department code
      14th Annual International Kawasaki Disease Symposium 2024
      $7,500
      award amount

  3. Tariq M Rana

    Leads 3 awards · $5,209,776

    • 5U01DA058402-02Department: NIH department code
      Single cell determinants of brain in the context of viral persistence in SIV/cART/cocaine non-human primates

      Principal investigators: Tariq M Rana (contact PI), Shilpa J Buch

      $2,473,493
      award amount
    • 5U01DA053630-04Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the single cell determinants of brain relevant to persistent HIV infection and opioid use disorder
      $2,233,422
      award amount
    • 1R56AI187411-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of PCIF1 in Regulating Host-HIV interactions
      $502,861
      award amount

  4. Terry L. Jernigan

    Leads 1 award · $3,954,817

    • 5U24DA041147-10Department: NIH department code
      ABCD-USA Consortium: Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Terry L. Jernigan (contact PI), Sandra A Brown

      $3,954,817
      award amount

  5. Alysson R. Muotri

    Leads 6 awards · $3,521,812

    • 5R01DA056908-03Department: NIH department code
      A new brain organoid model for NeuroHIV and the impact of opioids
      $786,533
      award amount
    • 5R01MH127077-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel SETD5-based Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Tools to Understand and Revert Neuronal Dysfunction Associated with Intellectual disability and Autism

      Principal investigators: Alysson R. Muotri (contact PI), Alon Goren

      $784,231
      award amount
    • 5R01AG078959-03Department: NIH department code
      Establishment of a causal link between AD and L1 retrotransposons
      $783,212
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123642-04Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of hiPSC-Derived Microglia in Human Brain Development in Health and Disease
      $429,655
      award amount
    • 5R01MH123828-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome pathophysiology using a human model
      $395,000
      award amount
    • 5R01HD107788-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of prenatal inflammation on developing human brain
      $343,181
      award amount

  6. Jack Anthony Gilbert

    Leads 1 award · $3,324,680

    • 5U24DK131617-03Department: NIH department code
      The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center

      Principal investigators: Jack Anthony Gilbert (contact PI), Rob Knight

      $3,324,680
      award amount

  7. Xin Sun

    Leads 5 awards · $2,896,845

    • 1U01HL175452-01Department: NIH department code
      Cross-Disease Multi-Modality Mapping of the Human Lung
      $747,861
      award amount
    • 1R01HL172027-01Department: NIH department code
      MYRF as an Entry Point to Study Mesothelium Function in Lung Development and Injury Repair
      $570,826
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169853-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosensor Function in the Control of Gas Exchange Surface Size and Composition
      $555,136
      award amount
    • 5R01AT011676-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the Interoception Circuit that Controls Airway Constriction
      $524,852
      award amount
    • 5R01HL160019-04Department: NIH department code
      Balancing Airway Progenitor versus Progeny: a Pathway from Mitochondria
      $498,170
      award amount

  8. Kelan G Tantisira

    Leads 2 awards · $2,782,813

    • 5R01HL161362-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Pharmacogenomics in Asthma for Predication, Mechanism and Endotyping

      Principal investigators: Kelan G Tantisira (contact PI), Eugene Roland Bleecker, Geoffrey L Chupp, Scott T Weiss

      $2,102,471
      award amount
    • 5R01HL162570-07Department: NIH department code
      Genomics and Pharmacogenomics of Symptoms in Asthma
      $680,342
      award amount

  9. Gretchen E. Bandoli

    Leads 4 awards · $2,680,886

    • 5U01DA055369-04Department: NIH department code
      14/24 The Healthy Brain & Child Development National Consortium

      Principal investigators: Gretchen E. Bandoli (contact PI), Carla B Marienfeld

      $2,045,138
      award amount
    • 1R01HD112525-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Maternal and Infant Outcomes among Pregnant Women with Intellectual and Developmental Disability
      $391,661
      award amount
    • 1R21AA031765-01Department: NIH department code
      Parental alcohol and cannabis before and during pregnancy: a pilot study
      $187,143
      award amount
    • 3U01DA055369-04S1Department: NIH department code
      14/24 The Healthy Brain & Child Development National Consortium

      Principal investigators: Gretchen E. Bandoli (contact PI), Sheila Gahagan

      $56,944
      award amount

  10. Victor Nizet

    Leads 3 awards · $2,273,521

    • 5R01AI176554-02Department: NIH department code
      Biomimetic Macrophage Membrane-Coated Nanosponges: A Novel Therapeutic for Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii Hospital-Associated Pneumonia

      Principal investigators: Victor Nizet (contact PI), Angela Meier, Liangfang Zhang

      $1,009,268
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173689-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the Most Effective Adjuvant(s) for Leading Group A Streptococcal Vaccine Antigens in Preclinical Mouse and Nonhuman Primate Models

      Principal investigators: Victor Nizet (contact PI), Mark Joseph Walker

      $658,644
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007036-44Department: NIH department code
      Combating Antibiotic Resistance Into the Next Generation (CARING)
      $605,609
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 3P50HD106463-03S1, led by Adriana H Tremoulet; 3P50HD106463-04S1, led by Adriana H Tremoulet; 5T32HD087978-09, led by Adriana H Tremoulet.

  11. Stephen A Spector

    Leads 1 award · $1,985,586

    • 5UM1AI069536-18Department: NIH department code
      HIV Centers for Underrepresented Populations in Research Clinical Trials Unit (CURE CTU)
      $1,985,586
      award amount

  12. Elizabeth A Winzeler

    Leads 2 awards · $1,788,556

    • 5R01AI169892-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the resistome in P. falciparum: evolution and mechanism

      Principal investigators: Elizabeth A Winzeler (contact PI), Daniel E. Goldberg, Dyann F Wirth

      $1,102,586
      award amount
    • 5R01AI152533-05Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of long-acting, chemoprotective antimalarial compounds
      $685,970
      award amount

  13. Kyle Jeffrie Gaulton

    Leads 1 award · $1,719,420

  14. Nicole Gabriele Coufal

    Leads 4 awards · $1,646,357

    • 1R01AG082255-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of AD genetic risk and microglial BIN1 to tauopathy

      Principal investigators: Nicole Gabriele Coufal (contact PI), Mathew Mark Blurton-Jones

      $767,112
      award amount
    • 5R01NS126452-02Department: NIH department code
      Microglial contribution to Down Syndrome Neuropathology
      $461,219
      award amount
    • 5R01NS124637-03Department: NIH department code
      The Contribution of Microglial MEF2C to Brain Development
      $396,661
      award amount
    • 3R01NS126452-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Microglial contribution to Down Syndrome Neuropathology
      $21,365
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01NS135162-01, led by Stephanie Cherqui.

  15. George Y Liu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,564,310

    • 5R01AI181321-02Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating human anti-staphylococcal antibody responses for S. aureus vaccine insights

      Principal investigators: George Y Liu (contact PI), Clarence Buddy Creech

      $813,730
      award amount
    • 1R01AI179098-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of vaccine interference by S. aureus-induced imprints
      $750,580
      award amount

  16. Gabriel G Haddad

    Leads 3 awards · $1,508,947

    • 5R01HL157445-03Department: NIH department code
      Obstructive sleep apnea, the microbiome and cardiovascular disease
      $706,199
      award amount
    • 5R01DA053372-03Department: NIH department code
      Effect of methadone on the developmental properties of human brain organoids
      $636,157
      award amount
    • 5K12HD105271-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing Diverse Physician-Investigator Leaders for the Future of Child Health
      $166,591
      award amount

  17. Manuela Raffatellu

    Leads 4 awards · $1,429,892

    • 5R01AI176390-02Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing iron acquisition to hinder enterobacterial pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Manuela Raffatellu (contact PI), Elizabeth M Nolan

      $655,212
      award amount
    • 5R37AI126277-08Department: NIH department code
      Nutritional immunity during Salmonella infection
      $459,562
      award amount
    • 1R21AI186034-01Department: NIH department code
      Applied Metatranscriptomics and Metatranslatomics to identify new mechanisms of Salmonella-microbiota competition

      Principal investigators: Manuela Raffatellu (contact PI), Karsten B Zengler

      $223,997
      award amount
    • 3R01AI176390-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing iron acquisition to hinder enterobacterial pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Manuela Raffatellu (contact PI), Elizabeth M Nolan

      $91,121
      award amount

  18. Pia S Pannaraj

    Leads 2 awards · $1,404,150

    • 5R01AI173194-04Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-induced mucosal, serological, and cellular immunity in children and human milk
      $789,208
      award amount
    • 5R01HD100542-06Department: NIH department code
      Gut microbial and metabolic mediators of rotavirus vaccine response
      $614,942
      award amount

  19. Kerri N Boutelle

    Leads 2 awards · $1,325,864

    • 5R01HD106991-03Department: NIH department code
      Telehealth Parent-Only Treatment for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Overweight/Obesity
      $665,077
      award amount
    • 5R01DK135599-02Department: NIH department code
      Addressing appetitive traits to promote weight management in children who overeat
      $660,787
      award amount

  20. Stephanie Cherqui

    Leads 2 awards · $985,166

    • 1R01NS135162-01Department: NIH department code
      Microgial contribution and therapeutic potential in Friedreich's ataxia

      Principal investigators: Stephanie Cherqui (contact PI), Nicole Gabriele Coufal

      $590,166
      award amount
    • 1R01AG086443-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the mechanism of rescue of Alzheimers disease by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
      $395,000
      award amount

  21. Jianhua Shao

    Leads 3 awards · $861,779

    • 5R01DK113007-06Department: NIH department code
      Hypoadiponectinemia and Gestational Diabetes
      $466,779
      award amount
    • 5R21HD111199-02Department: NIH department code
      Pancreatic alpha-cells and Maternal metabolic Adaptation
      $197,500
      award amount
    • 5R21HD112143-02Department: NIH department code
      Alpha cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles and Maternal Insulin Production
      $197,500
      award amount

  22. Seema S Aceves

    Leads 1 award · $745,047

    • 2R01DK114457-05A1Department: NIH department code
      TWEAK/TNFSF12 and LIGHT/TNFSF14 interactions in allergic esophagitis remodeling

      Principal investigators: Seema S Aceves (contact PI), Michael Croft

      $745,047
      award amount

  23. Eniko Sajti

    Leads 1 award · $707,022

    • 5R01HL170183-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of neonatal lung macrophages in mediating resilience to hyperoxia induced lung injury via TREM2 signaling
      $707,022
      award amount

  24. Paula Aristizabal

    Leads 1 award · $634,874

    • 5R01CA279945-02Department: NIH department code
      Multisite Implementation of COMPRENDO (ChildhOod Malignancy Peer REsearch NavigatiOn) to improve participation of Hispanic children in cancer clinical trials
      $634,874
      award amount

  25. Sanjay K Nigam

    Leads 1 award · $585,892

    • 5R01DK109392-07Department: NIH department code
      The Role in OAT1 in Uremia
      $585,892
      award amount

  26. Ariel Feldstein

    Leads 1 award · $581,327

    • 5R01AA028134-05Department: NIH department code
      Hepatocyte-derived extracellular vesicles in alcoholic liver disease

      Principal investigators: Ariel Feldstein (contact PI), Hidekazu Tsukamoto

      $581,327
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK113592-07, led by Harold M Hoffman.

  27. Harold M Hoffman

    Leads 1 award · $564,949

    • 5R01DK113592-07Department: NIH department code
      Sterile inflammation and pyroptotic cell death in liver fibrosis

      Principal investigators: Harold M Hoffman (contact PI), Ariel Feldstein

      $564,949
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AI155869-05, led by Ben Adam Croker.

  28. Nathan Enoch Lewis

    Leads 2 awards · $517,234

    • 5R35GM119850-09Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the mammalian secretory pathway through systems biology and algorithm development
      $434,500
      award amount
    • 3R35GM119850-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the mammalian secretory pathway through systems biology and algorithm development
      $82,734
      award amount

  29. Kyung E Rhee

    Leads 1 award · $474,000

    • 1R01DK140573-01Department: NIH department code
      Addressing Food Insecurity in the Health Care Setting to Promote Health Equity
      $474,000
      award amount

  30. Ben Adam Croker

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R01AI155869-05Department: NIH department code
      The Neutrophil Lineage in Inflammasomopathies

      Principal investigators: Ben Adam Croker (contact PI), Harold M Hoffman

      $395,000
      award amount

  31. Shweta Joshi

    Leads 1 award · $386,825

    • 5R01NS122835-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Syk to enhance anti-tumor immune responses in neuroblastoma
      $386,825
      award amount

  32. Kristen Lynn Jepsen

    Leads 1 award · $357,193

    • 1S10OD036456-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Molecular Imager for Single Cell Imaging
      $357,193
      award amount

  33. Miguel Del Campo Casanelles

    Leads 1 award · $348,448

    • 5U24AA014815-21Department: NIH department code
      FASD Diagnostic Telemedicine Resource
      $348,448
      award amount

  34. Jill C Wildonger

    Leads 1 award · $325,415

    • 5R01NS116373-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic analysis of microtubule dynamics and stability in neurons
      $325,415
      award amount

  35. Henry Chong Lee

    Leads 1 award · $313,758

    • 5R01HD098287-06Department: NIH department code
      Improving outcomes of periviable births via an enhanced prediction tool
      $313,758
      award amount

  36. Vivien Ileana Maltez

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00GM147841-02Department: NIH department code
      Multiplex imaging in therapy refractory tumors: understanding the spatiotemporal facets of an immunosuppressive environment
      $249,000
      award amount

  37. Francesca Briganti

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00HL165099-02Department: NIH department code
      Using miRNA to identify new therapeutic pathways for dilated cardiomyopathy
      $248,999
      award amount

  38. Ronnie H Fang

    Leads 1 award · $237,000

    • 5R21AI175904-02Department: NIH department code
      Inflammation-targeted delivery of corticosteroids using genetically engineered cellular nanoparticles
      $237,000
      award amount

  39. Justinn Barr

    Leads 2 awards · $227,812

    • 1K99HL169897-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rare Airway Cell Function in Post-Viral Chronic Inflammation
      $152,212
      award amount
    • 3K99HL169897-01A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Rare Airway Cell Function in Post-Viral Chronic Inflammation
      $75,600
      award amount

  40. Hari Kope Narayan

    Leads 1 award · $196,591

    • 5K23HL163456-02Department: NIH department code
      The Clinical Relevance of Anthracycline-Related Cardiac Remodeling in Childhood Cancer Survivors
      $196,591
      award amount

  41. Julie Ann Jaffray

    Leads 1 award · $171,288

    • 5K23HL163330-04Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a pediatric thrombosis risk assessment model and characterization of bleeding in hospitalized children through the Children's Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Consortium
      $171,288
      award amount

  42. Hojun Li

    Leads 1 award · $165,240

    • 7K08DK123414-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulating proliferation and differentiation of erythroid progenitors
      $165,240
      award amount

  43. Han Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $158,000

    • 1R03DK138495-01Department: NIH department code
      Gene regulatory programs drivingmetabolic maturation of human pluripotent stem cell derived β-cells
      $158,000
      award amount

  44. Le Xu

    Leads 1 award · $153,130

    • 1K99HL171830-01Department: NIH department code
      Frontiers at the edge: Subpleural fibroblasts orchestrate pulmonary fibrosis progression
      $153,130
      award amount

  45. Alexander G Foote

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 5F32DC021634-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimmune interactions for laryngeal sensorimotor neuropathy in postviral influenza infection
      $74,284
      award amount

  46. Matthew Wortham

    Leads 1 award · $48,853

    • 5R03DK135459-02Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic requirements of pancreatic beta cell proliferation
      $48,853
      award amount

  47. Celina Tien Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $42,188

    • 5F30HD112148-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Chromosome Y in Human Microglia and Neurodevelopment
      $42,188
      award amount

  48. Grant J Norton

    Leads 1 award · $42,032

    • 1F31AI186410-01Department: NIH department code
      Metatranslatomics enables functional profiling of microbial competition in the Salmonella-perturbed gut
      $42,032
      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.