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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Funding
$22.5M
$22,517,394
Awards
54
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
41
26 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
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 Francisco page.

Leads a grant in this department

26 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. Nisha Acharya

    Leads 4 awards · $2,326,960

    • 1UG1EY038172-01Department: NIH department code
      Adalimumab Dose Adjustment for Pediatric uveitis Treatment (ADAPT) Trial
      $1,655,047
      award amount
    • 5R01EY028739-09Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
      $606,466
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY038172-01S2Department: NIH department code
      Adalimumab Dose Adjustment for Pediatric uveitis Treatment (ADAPT) Trial
      $58,047
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY038172-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Adalimumab Dose Adjustment for Pediatric uveitis Treatment (ADAPT) Trial
      $7,400
      award amount

  2. Douglas Gould

    Leads 3 awards · $2,310,734

    • 4R01NS128217-02Department: NIH department code
      Gene therapy for disorders of the extracellular matrix

      Principal investigators: Douglas Gould (contact PI), Patricia L Musolino

      $821,991
      award amount
    • 5R01NS140370-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic and Functional Evaluation of a Model of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
      $792,523
      award amount
    • 5R01EY019887-12Department: NIH department code
      Genetically testing mechanisms of ocular development and disease
      $696,220
      award amount

  3. Jeremy David Keenan

    Leads 6 awards · $2,280,301

    • 5UG1EY033284-04Department: NIH department code
      Parasitic Ulcer Treatment Trial

      Principal investigators: Jeremy David Keenan (contact PI), Gerami D Seitzman

      $1,163,537
      award amount
    • 5UG1EY036346-03Department: NIH department code
      Village-Integrated Eye Worker Trial II (VIEW II) Extension
      $1,056,051
      award amount
    • 3R33EY033690-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Integrating smartphone photography for trachoma, smartphone visual acuity assessment, and mobile autorefraction to enhance community-based public health monitoring
      $36,271
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY033284-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Parasitic Ulcer Treatment Trial

      Principal investigators: Jeremy David Keenan (contact PI), Gerami D Seitzman

      $9,000
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY033284-04S2Department: NIH department code
      Parasitic Ulcer Treatment Trial

      Principal investigators: Jeremy David Keenan (contact PI), Gerami D Seitzman

      $9,000
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY033284-04S3Department: NIH department code
      Parasitic Ulcer Treatment Trial

      Principal investigators: Jeremy David Keenan (contact PI), Gerami D Seitzman

      $6,442
      award amount

  4. Xin Duan

    Leads 2 awards · $2,254,264

    • 5U01NS136405-03Department: NIH department code
      BRAIN CONNECTS: Scalable Approaches for Bidirectional Brain-wide Trans-Neuronal Connectivity Mapping of Defined Cell Types

      Principal investigators: Xin Duan (contact PI), Evan Harriman Feinberg, Shenqin Yao

      $1,744,519
      award amount
    • 5R01EY030138-07Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Mechanisms for Selective Retinotectal Circuit Wiring
      $509,745
      award amount

  5. Yvonne Ou

    Leads 4 awards · $2,253,270

    • 5R01EY034973-04Department: NIH department code
      Retinal circuit disassembly in primate glaucoma

      Principal investigators: Yvonne Ou (contact PI), Brad Fortune, Joseph Leffler

      $725,651
      award amount
    • 5P30EY037668-02Department: NIH department code
      P30 - Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Aparna Lakkaraju (contact PI), Erik M Ullian (contact PI), Kayarat Saidas Nair (contact PI), Yvonne Ou (contact PI)

      $657,761
      award amount
    • 5K12EY031372-07Department: NIH department code
      UCSF-Proctor Clinician Vision Scholars K12 Program

      Principal investigators: Yvonne Ou (contact PI), Thomas M Lietman

      $617,285
      award amount
    • 5R38EY037091-02Department: NIH department code
      UCSF Program in Resident Opportunities for Mentored Ophthalmic Training in Experimentation (PROMOTE)
      $252,573
      award amount

  6. Seth Blumberg

    Leads 3 awards · $1,437,587

    • 1R01AI196117-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Analytical Tools to Quantify and Mitigate the Risk for Transitioning from Episodic to Endemic Transmission for Emerging Infections
      $787,837
      award amount
    • 5R35GM147702-05Department: NIH department code
      Modeling the dynamics of disease elimination
      $403,750
      award amount
    • 1R21AI202888-01Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Trajectory-Based Modeling of C. difficile to Link Individual Risk Profiles to Healthcare Burden

      Principal investigators: Seth Blumberg (contact PI), Daniel De La Rosa Martinez

      $246,000
      award amount

  7. Felice A Dunn

    Leads 3 awards · $1,260,857

    • 5R01EY029772-08Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of compensation following loss of cone inputs in the mature retina
      $561,007
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035028-03Department: NIH department code
      Retinal mechanisms underlying the optokinetic reflex

      Principal investigators: Felice A Dunn (contact PI), Alex L Kolodkin

      $495,117
      award amount
    • 5R21EY036209-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of a novel, noninvasive, sensitive measure of retinal dysfunction

      Principal investigators: Felice A Dunn (contact PI), Austin Roorda, Jacque Lynne Duncan, Taras V Litvin

      $204,733
      award amount

  8. Aparna Lakkaraju

    Leads 2 awards · $1,139,061

    • 5P30EY037668-02Department: NIH department code
      P30 - Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Aparna Lakkaraju (contact PI), Erik M Ullian (contact PI), Kayarat Saidas Nair (contact PI), Yvonne Ou (contact PI)

      $657,761
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035514-03Department: NIH department code
      Triple threat therapeutics for inherited retinal degenerations
      $481,300
      award amount

  9. Thuy A Doan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,110,142

    • 1R01AI197222-01A1Department: NIH department code
      AMR Monitoring to Improve Child’s Health and Mortality

      Principal investigators: Thuy A Doan (contact PI), Thomas M Lietman

      $597,421
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036058-03Department: NIH department code
      Multi-omics Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Uveitis

      Principal investigators: Thuy A Doan (contact PI), Jessica Shantha

      $512,721
      award amount

  10. Ying Han

    Leads 2 awards · $1,083,119

    • 5UG1EY033703-04Department: NIH department code
      Glaucoma Drainage Device and Endothelial Cell Density Loss Compare (DECLARE) Trial

      Principal investigators: Ying Han (contact PI), Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer

      $1,068,539
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY033703-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Glaucoma Drainage Device and Endothelial Cell Density Loss Compare (DECLARE) Trial

      Principal investigators: Ying Han (contact PI), Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer

      $14,580
      award amount

  11. John Alexander Gonzales

    Leads 6 awards · $1,059,935

    • 1UG1EY036344-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Systemic and Topical Antiviral Control of Cytomegalovirus Anterior uveitis: TreatmentOutcomes (STACCATO)
      $542,815
      award amount
    • 1R21EY037337-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PHAGE IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SEQUENCING (PhIP-SEQ) TO IDENTIFY AUTOANTIBODIES FROM PARTICIPANTS FROM THE SJÖGREN’S INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CLINICAL ALLIANCE (SICCA)
      $451,000
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY036344-01A1S4Department: NIH department code
      Systemic and Topical Antiviral Control of Cytomegalovirus Anterior uveitis: TreatmentOutcomes (STACCATO)
      $16,740
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY036344-01A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Systemic and Topical Antiviral Control of Cytomegalovirus Anterior uveitis: TreatmentOutcomes (STACCATO)
      $16,460
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY036344-01A1S2Department: NIH department code
      Systemic and Topical Antiviral Control of Cytomegalovirus Anterior uveitis: TreatmentOutcomes (STACCATO)
      $16,460
      award amount
    • 3UG1EY036344-01A1S3Department: NIH department code
      Systemic and Topical Antiviral Control of Cytomegalovirus Anterior uveitis: TreatmentOutcomes (STACCATO)
      $16,460
      award amount

  12. Kieran O'Brien

    Leads 1 award · $777,408

    • 5R01AI175250-03Department: NIH department code
      Résistance Evaluée contre la Vie des Enfants au Niger-Implementation et Recherche (REVENIR). Community antimicrobial resistance after azithromycin distribution: selection, spillover, co-selection

      Principal investigators: Kieran O'Brien (contact PI), Thomas M Lietman

      $777,408
      award amount

  13. Benjamin F Arnold

    Leads 4 awards · $707,076

    • 5R01AI166671-05Department: NIH department code
      Serologic measures of enteric pathogen transmission for intervention studies and population monitoring in low-resource settings
      $435,028
      award amount
    • 5R21AI182714-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging the seasonal malaria chemoprevention platform to address malaria and malnutrition

      Principal investigators: Benjamin F Arnold (contact PI), Catherine Elizabeth Oldenburg

      $161,212
      award amount
    • 5R03AI188012-02Department: NIH department code
      Effect of WASH interventions on population resilience to seasonally-driven enteric pathogen transmission along a gradient of socio-economic position
      $82,000
      award amount
    • 3R21AI182714-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging the seasonal malaria chemoprevention platform to address malaria and malnutrition

      Principal investigators: Benjamin F Arnold (contact PI), Catherine Elizabeth Oldenburg

      $28,836
      award amount

  14. O'Rese J Knight

    Leads 1 award · $682,309

    • 5R01EY036103-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Approach to 24-hr IOP Assessment

      Principal investigators: O'Rese J Knight (contact PI), Noel Marysa Ziebarth

      $682,309
      award amount

  15. Erik M Ullian

    Leads 1 award · $657,761

  16. Kayarat Saidas Nair

    Leads 1 award · $657,761

  17. Catherine Elizabeth Oldenburg

    Leads 2 awards · $426,511

    • 5R01HD111532-03Department: NIH department code
      Azithromycin as adjunctive treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: the AMOUR trial
      $345,930
      award amount
    • 3R01HD111532-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Azithromycin as adjunctive treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: the AMOUR trial
      $80,581
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21AI182714-02, led by Benjamin F Arnold; 5R21MH139015-02, led by Jennifer Velloza; 3R21MH139015-02S1, led by Jennifer Velloza; 3R21AI182714-02S1, led by Benjamin F Arnold.

  18. Thomas M Lietman

    Leads 1 award · $403,750

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AI175250-03, led by Kieran O'Brien; 5K12EY031372-07, led by Yvonne Ou; 1R01AI197222-01A1, led by Thuy A Doan.

  19. Maxence V Nachury

    Leads 1 award · $384,801

    • 5R01GM089933-17Department: NIH department code
      Quality Control of the cilia proteome
      $384,801
      award amount

  20. Luciano C. Greig

    Leads 1 award · $255,340

    • 1K08EY038342-01Department: NIH department code
      Development and regeneration of retinal ganglion cells in the vertebrate retina
      $255,340
      award amount

  21. Neel Dave Pasricha

    Leads 1 award · $219,343

    • 5K08EY033859-04Department: NIH department code
      Human Ocular Surface Electrophysiology
      $219,343
      award amount

  22. Jacque Lynne Duncan

    Leads 1 award · $206,659

    • 5UG1EY033292-05Department: NIH department code
      NAC Attack AOSLO Reading Center

      Principal investigators: Jacque Lynne Duncan (contact PI), Joseph Carroll

      $206,659
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21EY036209-02, led by Felice A Dunn.

  23. Matilda F Chan

    Leads 1 award · $205,000

    • 5R21EY035829-02Department: NIH department code
      Serum components to support corneal health
      $205,000
      award amount

  24. Jennifer Velloza

    Leads 2 awards · $181,008

    • 5R21MH139015-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of caregiver mental health in outcomes following childhood severe acute malnutrition

      Principal investigators: Jennifer Velloza (contact PI), Catherine Elizabeth Oldenburg

      $134,792
      award amount
    • 3R21MH139015-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of caregiver mental health in outcomes following childhood severe acute malnutrition

      Principal investigators: Jennifer Velloza (contact PI), Catherine Elizabeth Oldenburg

      $46,216
      award amount

  25. Mengya Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $127,180

    • 1K99EY038871-01Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular Retinal Ganglion Cells in Shaping Vascular Architecture and Neurovascular Resilience
      $127,180
      award amount

  26. Annika Balraj

    Leads 1 award · $82,540

    • 5F32EY037105-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of sensory encoding after photoreceptor degeneration
      $82,540
      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.