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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Funding
$16.2M
$16,220,200
Awards
32
FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
29
21 lead a grant here, 8 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 Dentistry row of the University of California, San Francisco page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Caroline Helene Shiboski

    Leads 3 awards · $3,442,000

    • 5UC2DE032254-05Department: NIH department code
      Sjögren’s Team for Accelerating Medicines Partnership (STAMP)

      Principal investigators: Caroline Helene Shiboski (contact PI), A Darise Farris, Alan N Baer

      $1,950,000
      award amount
    • 3UC2DE032254-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Sjögren’s Team for Accelerating Medicines Partnership (STAMP)

      Principal investigators: Caroline Helene Shiboski (contact PI), A Darise Farris, Alan N Baer

      $1,000,000
      award amount
    • 2R56DE028891-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Sjogren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance Next Generation Studies (SICCA-NextGen)
      $492,000
      award amount

  2. Fatemeh Momen Heravi

    Leads 4 awards · $2,513,956

    • 5U01DE033351-04Department: NIH department code
      Immune and transcriptomic biomarkers of progressive oral premalignant lesions
      $814,133
      award amount
    • 5R01CA290401-02Department: NIH department code
      The biological mechanisms of racial disparity in head and neck cancer
      $681,093
      award amount
    • 5R01DE032433-04Department: NIH department code
      Single-cell RNA-sequencing for functional analysis of monocytes and macrophages in periodontitis
      $608,730
      award amount
    • 5R35GM151259-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Exosome Biogenesis
      $410,000
      award amount

  3. Yukiko Nakano

    Leads 2 awards · $1,376,911

    • 1R01DE035194-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Insights into Amelogenin Alternative Splicing and Its Multifunctional Regulatory Roles: Implications for Amelogenesis Imperfecta and Signaling Pathways
      $693,185
      award amount
    • 5T32DE007306-30Department: NIH department code
      Oral and Craniofacial Sciences Health Research Training
      $683,726
      award amount

  4. Sunita P Ho

    Leads 1 award · $1,368,593

    • 1R56DE036307-01Department: NIH department code
      Aberrant Mechano-Oxygen Coupling as a Driver of Zinc-Enriched Ectopic Mineralization in Osteoarthritis

      Principal investigators: Sunita P Ho (contact PI), Christoph J Fahrni, Hirotake Komatsu

      $1,368,593
      award amount

  5. Licia Selleri

    Leads 2 awards · $1,183,116

    • 1R01HD120562-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Perturbations of FGF-dependent cross talk between mesenchyme and mesothelium as causes of congenital asplenia
      $716,738
      award amount
    • 5R01DE033885-03Department: NIH department code
      Control of Mammalian Craniofacial Morphogenesis by the ESCRT Machinery
      $466,378
      award amount

  6. Stefan Friedrich Habelitz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,118,022

    • 5R01DE031946-05Department: NIH department code
      Amelogenin Nanoribbons In Enamel Development And Engineering
      $667,022
      award amount
    • 1R21DE035693-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Inhibition vs. promotion of intrafibrillar mineralization of collagen fibrils
      $451,000
      award amount

  7. Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,049,310

    • 1R01DE034803-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of the genome organizer SATB1 in salivary gland maturation and regeneration

      Principal investigators: Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu (contact PI), Sarah Monica Knox

      $696,710
      award amount
    • 1R01HD121802-01Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between the chromatin organizer SATB1 and the transcription factor PIT1 during postnatal maturation of the pituitary gland
      $352,600
      award amount

  8. Stuart A Gansky

    Leads 1 award · $800,405

  9. Pamela K Den Besten

    Leads 2 awards · $755,970

    • 5R01DE027971-08Department: NIH department code
      Enamel biomineralization; the role of pH cycling
      $509,970
      award amount
    • 5R21DE035002-02Department: NIH department code
      Effects of the oral microbiome on Adverse Outcomes of Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

      Principal investigators: Pamela K Den Besten (contact PI), Susan Veronica Lynch

      $246,000
      award amount

  10. Benjamin W Chaffee

    Leads 1 award · $647,819

    • 5U01DE033953-03Department: NIH department code
      Economic Stressors and Opportunities as Influences of Emerging Adult Oral Health
      $647,819
      award amount

  11. Yan Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $506,356

    • 5R01DE027076-09Department: NIH department code
      The stage-specific regulation of ameloblastin and enamelin by the distinct nuclear factors
      $506,356
      award amount

  12. Sepideh Banava

    Leads 2 awards · $498,748

    • 1R03DE036394-01Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Informatics of Xerostomia: Characterizing Comorbidities, Social Risk Factors, and Predicting Oral Health Outcomes Using Structured and Unstructured EHR Data
      $328,000
      award amount
    • 5K23DE033785-03Department: NIH department code
      Using Informatics and Natural Language Processing to Develop a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Improve Intimate Partner Violence Diagnosis by Dentists and Assess its Feasibility and Acceptability
      $170,748
      award amount

  13. Wanida Ono

    Leads 1 award · $493,819

    • 7R01DE030416-04Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacological rescue of tooth eruption disorders
      $493,819
      award amount

  14. Sara Viragova

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32DK137454-03Department: NIH department code
      Examining the role of epigenetic memory in intestinal regeneration
      $81,580
      award amount

  15. Darnell Cuylear

    Leads 1 award · $55,914

    • 5F30DE031158-06Department: NIH department code
      Local Sustained Delivery of Osteoprotegerin via Hydroxyapatite Microparticles to Enhance Post-Orthodontic Tooth Stability
      $55,914
      award amount

  16. David Sung

    Leads 1 award · $55,914

    • 5F30DE032265-05Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin modifier Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 as a regulator of dental epithelial progenitor cells
      $55,914
      award amount

  17. Karin Shamardani

    Leads 1 award · $55,914

    • 5F30DE033612-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular mechanisms of palatal shelf outgrowth
      $55,914
      award amount

  18. Luke David Lucido

    Leads 1 award · $55,914

    • 5F30DE033613-03Department: NIH department code
      The Molecular Basis of Nasal Pit Morphogenesis and its Role in Upper Lip Formation
      $55,914
      award amount

  19. Minyoung Kim

    Leads 1 award · $55,914

    • 5F30DE034639-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of ELAVL1 as a post-transcriptional regulator of cranial neural crest development
      $55,914
      award amount

  20. Ameera Samaher Haque

    Leads 1 award · $53,415

    • 5F30DE031501-05Department: NIH department code
      Cellular Basis of Incisor Asymmetry
      $53,415
      award amount

  21. Jake Jia-Rui Ngu

    Leads 1 award · $50,610

    • 1F31DE035793-01A1Department: NIH department code
      SLC24A4 in enamel maturation, from expression to etiology
      $50,610
      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.