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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Funding
$32.7M
$32,663,928
Awards
81
FY2025 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
79
61 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
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 Pediatrics row of the University of California, San Francisco page.

Leads a grant in this department

61 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. Jason M Nagata

    Leads 3 awards · $2,772,466

    • 4RF1MH135492-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating relationships between problematic social media use and binge-eating disorder to inform precision guidance for adolescents
      $1,894,979
      award amount
    • 1R01DA064134-01Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal pathways between adolescent social media use and substance use: Informing evidence-based guidance
      $703,457
      award amount
    • 5K08HL159350-05Department: NIH department code
      Informing national guidelines on adolescent and young adult physical activity and sedentary behavior to prevent cardiovascular disease
      $174,030
      award amount
  2. Thomas Darmody Arnold

    Leads 3 awards · $1,783,314

    • 1R01NS142590-01Department: NIH department code
      Structure-guiding tools to study the role of choline in the development of congenital hydrocephalus
      $654,593
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123168-05Department: NIH department code
      Defective heme transport in the development of congenital hydrocephalus
      $616,679
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034615-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of heme in retinal vascular development and disease

      Principal investigators: Thomas Darmody Arnold (contact PI), David Antonetti

      $512,042
      award amount
  3. Christopher Craig Dvorak

    Leads 2 awards · $1,764,540

  4. Julie D Saba

    Leads 6 awards · $1,716,176

    • 5R01HD113778-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the natural history of sphingosine phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome (SPLIS): a fundamental step in the development of a targeted cure for this novel atypical sphingolipidosis
      $682,244
      award amount
    • 5R61HL171786-02Department: NIH department code
      Adeno-associated virus-mediated SGPL1 gene therapy as a first-in-class treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that acts by reducing sphingosine-1-phosphate and downstream profibrotic signaling
      $565,250
      award amount
    • 1R21OD037868-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing a novel mouse model linking sphingolipid metabolism to multi-organ fibrosis
      $246,000
      award amount
    • 3R01HD113778-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the natural history of sphingosine phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome (SPLIS): a fundamental step in the development of a targeted cure for this novel atypical sphingolipidosis
      $104,973
      award amount
    • 3R61HL171786-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Adeno-associated virus-mediated SGPL1 gene therapy as a first-in-class treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that acts by reducing sphingosine-1-phosphate and downstream profibrotic signaling
      $62,762
      award amount
    • 3R01HD113778-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the natural history of sphingosine phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome (SPLIS): a fundamental step in the development of a targeted cure for this novel atypical sphingolipidosis
      $54,947
      award amount
  5. Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero

    Leads 3 awards · $1,445,365

    • 5R01CA250534-05Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and Targeting Mechanisms for Membrane Signaling in Human Cancer

      Principal investigators: Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero (contact PI), Peter Kent Jackson

      $554,274
      award amount
    • 1R01CA292790-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic analysis of osteosarcoma to define subclasses relevant to chemoresistance and metastasis
      $540,090
      award amount
    • 5T32CA128583-19Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in Childhood Cancer
      $351,001
      award amount
  6. Margaret E Feeney

    Leads 2 awards · $1,356,811

    • 5U01AI168390-04Department: NIH department code
      T cell immunity to CMV in utero and in early childhood
      $783,063
      award amount
    • 5R01AI093615-15Department: NIH department code
      The role of γδ T cells in fetal and infant immune defense against malaria
      $573,748
      award amount
  7. Patrick Sean McQuillen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,040,928

    • 5R01HL165400-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain Injury and Dysmaturation in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease Born Preterm
      $892,003
      award amount
    • 5RL1HD107786-05Department: NIH department code
      Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network - Clinical Site
      $148,925
      award amount
  8. James Bayrer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,005,718

    • 5R01DK128346-05Department: NIH department code
      Decoding LRH-1 Activity in Gut Regeneration and Differentiation
      $513,887
      award amount
    • 5T32DK007762-48Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology/Nutrition
      $491,831
      award amount
  9. Cynthia C Harper

    Leads 1 award · $909,200

    • 2K12AR084219-27Department: NIH department code
      University of California, San Francisco/Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 Program

      Principal investigators: Cynthia C Harper (contact PI), Monica Gandhi

      $909,200
      award amount
  10. Matthew Scott Zinter

    Leads 2 awards · $838,602

    • 1R01HL180864-01Department: NIH department code
      Pulmonary Immune Regulation of Lung Injury after Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
      $719,882
      award amount
    • 5R03HL171423-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of pulmonary fibrosis biology in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant patients
      $118,720
      award amount
  11. Deborah Anne Dean

    Leads 1 award · $795,885

    • 5R01AI158527-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of ocular microbiome, immune response and Chlamydiae on trachoma following MDA

      Principal investigators: Deborah Anne Dean (contact PI), Timothy D. Read

      $795,885
      award amount
  12. Naomi Shula Bardach

    Leads 1 award · $735,531

    • 1R01HD119441-01Department: NIH department code
      Family Input for Quality and Safety Dissemination and Implementation
      $735,531
      award amount
  13. Amy Laura Beck

    Leads 2 awards · $714,581

    • 5R01HD109158-03Department: NIH department code
      Futuros Fuertes 2.0: A primary care-based intervention to prevent obesity in low-income Latino children
      $689,949
      award amount
    • 3R01HD109158-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Futuros Fuertes 2.0: A primary care-based intervention to prevent obesity in low-income Latino children
      $24,632
      award amount
  14. Sanjeev A. Datar

    Leads 1 award · $694,850

    • 5R01HL133034-09Department: NIH department code
      Altered Lymphatic Function and Development in Congenital Heart Disease
      $694,850
      award amount
  15. Mary Prahl

    Leads 1 award · $679,676

    • 5R01HD112339-03Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of Early Childhood Immune Responses
      $679,676
      award amount
  16. Elliot Stieglitz

    Leads 1 award · $673,836

    • 5R37CA266550-04Department: NIH department code
      Implementation of an interventional, risk-adapted clinical trial for children with newly diagnosed juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.
      $673,836
      award amount
  17. Andrea K Garber

    Leads 1 award · $664,130

    • 5R01HD082166-10Department: NIH department code
      Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial of Refeeding an Anorexia Nervosa
      $664,130
      award amount
  18. Michael R Waterfield

    Leads 1 award · $655,587

    • 5R01AI165829-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of medullary thymic epithelial cells and thymic central tolerance by Ikaros
      $655,587
      award amount
  19. Devan Jaganath

    Leads 2 awards · $611,713

    • 5R01HL169449-03Department: NIH department code
      Automated lung sound analysis to improve the clinical diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children
      $442,589
      award amount
    • 3R01HL169449-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Automated lung sound analysis to improve the clinical diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children
      $169,124
      award amount
  20. Xianhua Piao

    Leads 1 award · $579,977

    • 5R01NS094164-09Department: NIH department code
      Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors in CNS Development and Regeneration
      $579,977
      award amount
  21. Jeffrey R Fineman

    Leads 2 awards · $568,083

    • 5T32HL160508-04Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary Research Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey R Fineman (contact PI), Eric Douglas Austin, Steven Herbert Abman

      $366,737
      award amount
    • 5T32HD049303-19Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
      $201,346
      award amount
  22. Kieuhoa Tran Vo

    Leads 1 award · $540,607

    • 5R01CA285681-02Department: NIH department code
      Circulating biomarkers of clinical response to combination targeted therapies in neuroblastoma

      Principal investigators: Kieuhoa Tran Vo (contact PI), Brian Crompton

      $540,607
      award amount
  23. Kevin M. Shannon

    Leads 1 award · $516,416

    • 5R01CA193994-10Department: NIH department code
      Selectively Targeting Oncogenic NRAS in Cancer
      $516,416
      award amount
  24. Mark A Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $507,079

    • 5R01NS126498-03Department: NIH department code
      Overcoming the Inhibitory Neurovascular Niche in Preterm Infant Brain Injury
      $507,079
      award amount
  25. Shabnam Peyvandi

    Leads 1 award · $506,164

    • 5R01NS125404-04Department: NIH department code
      The Risk of Acquired Neonatal Significant brain Injury during perinatal Transition in Congenital Heart Disease: TRANSIT CHD study
      $506,164
      award amount
  26. Jenise C Wong

    Leads 1 award · $492,254

    • 5R01DK135000-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing diabetes technology use for Latinx youth through DREAM (Device use Reimagined through Education And Mentorship) virtual peer groups

      Principal investigators: Jenise C Wong (contact PI), Jennifer K Raymond

      $492,254
      award amount
  27. Amit J. Sabnis

    Leads 1 award · $482,283

    • 5R01CA285680-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting mTORC1 translational control in FOXO1 fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma
      $482,283
      award amount
  28. Fernando Francisco Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $474,749

    • 5R01NS107039-08Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial tip cell-mediated angiogenesis and repair after neonatal stroke
      $474,749
      award amount
  29. Sunitha Vemula Kaiser

    Leads 1 award · $450,831

    • 5R33HL157804-05Department: NIH department code
      The SIP Study: Simultaneously Implementing Pathways for Improving Asthma, Pneumonia, and Bronchiolitis Care for Hospitalized Children
      $450,831
      award amount
  30. Steven John Mack

    Leads 1 award · $449,783

    • 5R01AI128775-12Department: NIH department code
      Integrated Exchange and Storage of Current- and Future-Generation Immunogenomic Data

      Principal investigators: Steven John Mack (contact PI), Jill Allison Hollenbach

      $449,783
      award amount
  31. Ellen B Fung

    Leads 1 award · $449,538

  32. Raphael Hirsch

    Leads 1 award · $444,960

    • 5K12HD105250-05Department: NIH department code
      The Child Health Research Career Development Program at UCSF
      $444,960
      award amount
  33. Valerie Jane Flaherman

    Leads 2 awards · $438,844

    • 1R21HD117269-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Randomized Controlled Trial of a Relaxation Intervention to Improve Newborn Growth and Maternal Well-being

      Principal investigators: Valerie Jane Flaherman (contact PI), Victoria Nankabirwa

      $288,330
      award amount
    • 3R21HD117269-01A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Randomized Controlled Trial of a Relaxation Intervention to Improve Newborn Growth and Maternal Well-being

      Principal investigators: Valerie Jane Flaherman (contact PI), Victoria Nankabirwa

      $150,514
      award amount
  34. Onur Cil

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5R01EY036139-02Department: NIH department code
      Roles of CaSR in ocular surface health and disease
      $410,000
      award amount
  35. Luke M Judge

    Leads 1 award · $370,342

    • 5R01NS119678-05Department: NIH department code
      Allele-specific inactivation for dominant negative NEFL Mutations
      $370,342
      award amount
  36. Stefan J Friedrichsdorf

    Leads 1 award · $322,439

    • 1R25CA298919-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissemination of the Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care–Pediatrics (EPEC-Pediatrics) Train-the-Trainer Curriculum: Phase 2

      Principal investigators: Stefan J Friedrichsdorf (contact PI), Andrea Postier

      $322,439
      award amount
  37. Stephen E Gitelman

    Leads 1 award · $304,981

    • 5T32DK007161-50Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Pediatric Endocrinology

      Principal investigators: Stephen E Gitelman (contact PI), Brian J Feldman

      $304,981
      award amount
  38. Elizabeth M Ozer

    Leads 1 award · $269,936

    • 5R25GM154357-02Department: NIH department code
      AI4Health: Engaging Adolescents in Artificial Intelligence to Promote Pathways to Biomedical Careers
      $269,936
      award amount
  39. Benjamin Huang

    Leads 1 award · $247,985

    • 5K08CA256489-05Department: NIH department code
      Co-targeting BET Bromodomain Proteins and Aberrant Signaling in AML.
      $247,985
      award amount
  40. Alex Lee

    Leads 1 award · $233,684

    • 5R50CA274213-03Department: NIH department code
      Utilizing Multi-omics to Facilitate Cancer Biology Research
      $233,684
      award amount
  41. Elizabeth Erin Crouch

    Leads 1 award · $229,878

    • 5K08NS116161-05Department: NIH department code
      Mural stem cells in normal development and germinal matrix hemorrhage in the preterm human brain
      $229,878
      award amount
  42. Aaron Bodansky

    Leads 1 award · $200,016

    • 1K08AI187711-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying mechanisms of immune dysregulation via severe pediatric SARS-CoV-2
      $200,016
      award amount
  43. Matthew J Kan

    Leads 1 award · $200,016

    • 1K08AI187714-01Department: NIH department code
      Autologous Non-viral CRISPR/Cas Homology-directed Repair for Artemis-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
      $200,016
      award amount
  44. Victoria Tien-Yu Chu

    Leads 1 award · $197,748

    • 5K23AI185326-02Department: NIH department code
      Metagenomic surveillance of pathogen and antimicrobial resistance gene transmission in hospitalized neonates
      $197,748
      award amount
  45. Jana Krystofova Mike

    Leads 1 award · $196,169

    • 5K08NS125042-03Department: NIH department code
      Arginase-1 signaling after neonatal stroke
      $196,169
      award amount
  46. Sharad Wadhwani

    Leads 1 award · $196,020

    • 5K23DK132454-04Department: NIH department code
      Addressing social adversity to improve outcomes among children undergoing liver transplant: the role for a health advocate on the transplant team
      $196,020
      award amount
  47. Jessica Neely

    Leads 1 award · $174,744

    • 5K08AR081983-03Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing single cell RNA sequencing and integrative bioinformatics to identify precision therapeutics for dermatomyositis
      $174,744
      award amount
  48. Jonathan Witonsky

    Leads 1 award · $173,632

    • 5K23HL169911-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving Prediction of Asthma-related Outcomes with Genetic Ancestry-informed Lung Function Equations
      $173,632
      award amount
  49. Marie Cornet

    Leads 1 award · $173,481

    • 5K23HD109684-04Department: NIH department code
      Maternal Chorioamnionitis and Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: The MATCH Study
      $173,481
      award amount
  50. Jayme Congdon

    Leads 1 award · $170,748

    • 5K23HD113841-02Department: NIH department code
      Integrating Maternal and Child Health Services: Development and Pilot Testing of a Pediatric Clinic-Based Postpartum Contraception Intervention
      $170,748
      award amount
  51. Kayla Karvonen

    Leads 1 award · $170,748

    • 5K23MD019349-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and addressing family-prioritized social drivers of health to improve the long-term health of Black preterm infants
      $170,748
      award amount
  52. Janet Yi Man Lee

    Leads 1 award · $169,020

    • 5K23HD107265-03Department: NIH department code
      Skeletal effects of early pubertal suppression and peer-concordant puberty timing in transgender and gender diverse youth
      $169,020
      award amount
  53. Shylaja Srinivasan

    Leads 1 award · $121,125

    • 5R03DK138213-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiological sub-typing of pediatric type 2 diabetes based on clinical and genetic clustering methods
      $121,125
      award amount
  54. Beika Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $115,096

    • 5K99AG081694-02Department: NIH department code
      GPCR-dependent microglial function in Alzheimer's disease
      $115,096
      award amount
  55. Stefanie Noel Sveiven

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32HL178158-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of lung capillary endothelial cells in NFkB-directed alveolarization
      $75,520
      award amount
  56. Alice Summer Tang

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30AG079504-04Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Clinical Data for Phenotyping and Predictive Modelling of Alzheimer’s Disease
      $54,538
      award amount
  57. Silvia Miramontes Lizarraga

    Leads 1 award · $46,647

    • 5F31AG085938-02Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating social and clinical risk factors for the progression from Mild CognitiveImpairment to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias using Real World ClinicalData
      $46,647
      award amount
  58. Alexandra Bicki

    Leads 1 award · $26,351

    • 5F32DK137551-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Home Dialysis and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation among Adolescents and Young Adults
      $26,351
      award amount
  59. Kaylee Wedderburn-Pugh

    Leads 1 award · $25,687

    • 5F31NS137776-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of the blood-brain barrier in trafficking prenatal liver-derived immune cells into the brain
      $25,687
      award amount
  60. Jennifer M. Puck

    Leads 1 award · $20,000

    • 5R13AI094943-13Department: NIH department code
      Annual Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) Workshop and Education Day
      $20,000
      award amount
  61. Vivien Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $6,900

    • 1R13TR005880-01Department: NIH department code
      DGAT1 Deficiency: Uniting Stakeholders to Advance Knowledge, Care & Advocacy
      $6,900
      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.

  • Elie Haddad

    Co-investigator on 5R24AI184316-02, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak; 3R24AI184316-02S1, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Michael Wagner

    Co-investigator on 5R24AI184316-02, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak; 3R24AI184316-02S1, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Rebecca Marsh

    Co-investigator on 5R24AI184316-02, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak; 3R24AI184316-02S1, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Troy R Torgerson

    Co-investigator on 5R24AI184316-02, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak; 3R24AI184316-02S1, led by Christopher Craig Dvorak

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Monica Gandhi

    Co-investigator on 2K12AR084219-27, led by Cynthia C Harper

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Timothy D. Read

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI158527-04, led by Deborah Anne Dean

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Peter Kent Jackson

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA250534-05, led by Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Brian Crompton

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA285681-02, led by Kieuhoa Tran Vo

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • David Antonetti

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY034615-03, led by Thomas Darmody Arnold

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer K Raymond

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK135000-04, led by Jenise C Wong

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Jill Allison Hollenbach

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI128775-12, led by Steven John Mack

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Charles S. Abrams

    Co-investigator on 1R34HL177448-01A1, led by Ellen B Fung

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Elliott P Vichinsky

    Co-investigator on 1R34HL177448-01A1, led by Ellen B Fung

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Victoria Nankabirwa

    Co-investigator on 1R21HD117269-01A1, led by Valerie Jane Flaherman; 3R21HD117269-01A1S1, led by Valerie Jane Flaherman

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Eric Douglas Austin

    Co-investigator on 5T32HL160508-04, led by Jeffrey R Fineman

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Steven Herbert Abman

    Co-investigator on 5T32HL160508-04, led by Jeffrey R Fineman

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Andrea Postier

    Co-investigator on 1R25CA298919-01, led by Stefan J Friedrichsdorf

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Brian J Feldman

    Co-investigator on 5T32DK007161-50, led by Stephen E Gitelman

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads