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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Funding
$61.6M
$61,649,817
Awards
77
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
77
59 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 132 · 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 Pharmacology row of the University of California, San Francisco page.

Leads a grant in this department

59 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. Andrej Sali

    Leads 2 awards · $20,239,625

  2. Adam R Renslo

    Leads 2 awards · $18,658,476

  3. William Degrado

    Leads 2 awards · $18,650,671

  4. James Solomon Fraser

    Leads 2 awards · $18,582,175

  5. Charles Scott Craik

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  6. Danielle L Swaney

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  7. David A. Agard

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  8. Kevan M Shokat

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  9. Melanie Maria Ott

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  10. Nevan J Krogan

    Leads 1 award · $17,984,625

  11. Radojka Savic

    Leads 4 awards · $8,974,109

  12. Holly A. Ingraham

    Leads 4 awards · $3,216,579

    • 5K12GM081266-19Department: NIH department code
      The UCSF IRACDA Scholars Program.

      Principal investigators: Holly A. Ingraham (contact PI), Raymond M. Esquerra

      $1,331,411
      award amount
    • 5R01DK135714-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Mechanisms and Sex-Differences in Visceral Pain

      Principal investigators: Holly A. Ingraham (contact PI), David Julius

      $856,773
      award amount
    • 5U01AG086165-03Department: NIH department code
      Rejuvenating Skeletal Health Through A Novel Brain-Bone Axis
      $515,800
      award amount
    • 1R01DK147593-01Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging a Novel Neural Circuit for Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
      $512,595
      award amount

  13. Ryan D. Hernandez

    Leads 3 awards · $2,134,456

    • 5R01HL175076-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic ancestry effects on molecular and complex traits in TOPMed

      Principal investigators: Ryan D. Hernandez (contact PI), Dara Torgerson

      $804,982
      award amount
    • 5T32GM150479-03Department: NIH department code
      BMI Bioinformatics Training Grant
      $712,688
      award amount
    • 5R35GM158240-02Department: NIH department code
      Human evolution and the genetic architecture of complex traits
      $616,786
      award amount

  14. Wendell A Lim

    Leads 4 awards · $1,952,121

    • 1R01DK148614-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering synthetic suppressor cells for immune protection of transplanted islet beta cells

      Principal investigators: Wendell A Lim (contact PI), Audrey Parent

      $819,998
      award amount
    • 5R01CA258789-05Department: NIH department code
      Ameliorating off-target toxicities of CAR T cells by engineering NOT gates
      $454,357
      award amount
    • 5R01CA249018-06Department: NIH department code
      Recognizing the tumor ecosystem: Integrating stromal and cancer antigen signals to achieve precision recognition of solid tumors by CAR T cells
      $413,237
      award amount
    • 5R01CA253017-06Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic epigenetic circuits: tunable cell fate switches controlled by dynamic and combinatorial inputs

      Principal investigators: Wendell A Lim (contact PI), Ricardo Augusto Barbosa De Almeida

      $264,529
      award amount

  15. Adam R. Abate

    Leads 3 awards · $1,814,368

    • 5R01AI176829-04Department: NIH department code
      Next Generation Infectious Disease Diagnostics: Microfluidic-Free Gigapixel PCR with Self-Assembled Partitioning
      $629,850
      award amount
    • 5R01AI178795-11Department: NIH department code
      Gigapixel Next-Generation-Sequencing: An Ultra-Sensitive Diagnostic for Infections of the CNS
      $610,736
      award amount
    • 5R01NS130876-04Department: NIH department code
      Identification of Regulatory Mechanisms Operating in Rare Pathogenic Astrocyte Subsets in Multiple Sclerosis with a Novel Genomic Technology

      Principal investigators: Adam R. Abate (contact PI), Carlo L Condello, Jonah R Chan

      $573,782
      award amount

  16. Amelia N Deitchman

    Leads 1 award · $1,489,546

    • 1R56AI198100-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining broadly neutralizing antibody pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics in curative HIV trials
      $1,489,546
      award amount

  17. Kathleen M Giacomini

    Leads 3 awards · $1,483,745

    • 5UC2HD113474-04Department: NIH department code
      Transporter Elucidation Center at the University of California, San Francisco

      Principal investigators: Kathleen M Giacomini (contact PI), Robert M Stroud

      $968,465
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163909-01Department: NIH department code
      Renal reabsorptive and orphan transporters in the SLC22 family
      $495,280
      award amount
    • 1R13HD122340-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Precision Pharmacology for Maternal and Child Health

      Principal investigators: Kathleen M Giacomini (contact PI), Ashim Malhotra, Jennifer Marie Cocohoba

      $20,000
      award amount

  18. James A Wells

    Leads 3 awards · $1,219,151

    • 5R35GM122451-09Department: NIH department code
      Surfaceomic technologies and antibodies to probe cell surface proteomes and their interactomes at unprecedented small scale and high-resolution
      $572,243
      award amount
    • 5R01CA248323-07Department: NIH department code
      New protein-engineered tools and technologies for identifying, deorphanizing, and targeting shed proteins in cancer
      $404,177
      award amount
    • 3R35GM122451-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Surfaceomic technologies and antibodies to probe cell surface proteomes and theirinteractomes at unprecedented small scale and high-resolution
      $242,731
      award amount

  19. Tanja Kortemme

    Leads 1 award · $1,148,000

    • 5DP1EB038939-02Department: NIH department code
      De novo design and engineering of biological error correction
      $1,148,000
      award amount

  20. John D Gross

    Leads 2 awards · $1,128,209

    • 1R01AI202673-01Department: NIH department code
      Resolving the evolutionary acquisition of broad APOBEC3 neutralization by primate lentiviral Vif
      $809,975
      award amount
    • 5R01GM148881-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms that Control mRNA Decapping in Biological Condensates
      $318,234
      award amount

  21. Zev Jordan Gartner

    Leads 2 awards · $1,070,278

    • 5R01DK126376-07Department: NIH department code
      A molecular and physical mechanism for growing and branching the intestinal villus
      $678,443
      award amount
    • 5R33CA297969-02Department: NIH department code
      Increasing organoid reproducibility and complexity for drug testing and disease modeling
      $391,835
      award amount

  22. Aashish Manglik

    Leads 2 awards · $1,061,756

    • 5R01DC021585-03Department: NIH department code
      Structural dynamics of human odorant receptors in olfaction

      Principal investigators: Aashish Manglik (contact PI), Hiroaki Matsunami, Nagarajan Vaidehi

      $648,507
      award amount
    • 5T32GM149436-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Grant
      $413,249
      award amount

  23. Su Guo

    Leads 2 awards · $858,443

    • 5R01DA053385-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of endocannabinoid signaling in a preference/aversion circuitry
      $444,072
      award amount
    • 5T32GM142516-05Department: NIH department code
      Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics
      $414,371
      award amount

  24. Brian K Shoichet

    Leads 1 award · $798,338

    • 5R35GM122481-10Department: NIH department code
      Development and Testing of New Computational Methods for Ligand Discovery and Mechanism
      $798,338
      award amount

  25. Hyunil Jo

    Leads 1 award · $697,010

    • 5R01DK137892-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Acid Ceramidase for Hepatic Fibrogenesis
      $697,010
      award amount

  26. Dorothy Elinor Apollonio

    Leads 1 award · $680,979

    • 5R01DA058687-03Department: NIH department code
      Using opioid industry documents to understand marketing of addictive medications
      $680,979
      award amount

  27. Steven J Altschuler

    Leads 1 award · $679,837

    • 5R01CA300245-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidate the landscape of druggable targets for eliminating cancer persister cells
      $679,837
      award amount

  28. Nadav Ahituv

    Leads 1 award · $650,201

    • 5R01CA283826-03Department: NIH department code
      Bioengineering adipocytes for cancer therapy
      $650,201
      award amount

  29. Kliment A Verba

    Leads 1 award · $636,345

    • 1R37CA308018-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of Ras and Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Convergence on PI3K in cancer
      $636,345
      award amount

  30. Thomas E Ferrin

    Leads 1 award · $562,484

    • 1R35GM163663-01Department: NIH department code
      Next Generation Visualization and Analysis Software for Multiscale Modeling
      $562,484
      award amount

  31. Michelle Arkin

    Leads 1 award · $551,000

    • 1R35GM164086-01Department: NIH department code
      Function-selective modulators of multifunctional hub proteins
      $551,000
      award amount

  32. Jason E Gestwicki

    Leads 1 award · $543,639

    • 5T32GM145460-05Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
      $543,639
      award amount

  33. Shawn M Douglas

    Leads 2 awards · $542,702

    • 5R35GM125027-09Department: NIH department code
      DNA Nanostructures for High-Throughput Cryo-EM Studies of Small Macromolecules
      $403,750
      award amount
    • 3R35GM125027-09S1Department: NIH department code
      DNA Nanostructures for High-Throughput Cryo-EM Studies of Small Macromolecules
      $138,952
      award amount

  34. Akinyemi Oni-Orisan

    Leads 1 award · $526,615

    • 5R01HG012824-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and social determinants of pharmacological health outcomes in ancestrally diverse populations
      $526,615
      award amount

  35. Danica Galonic Fujimori

    Leads 1 award · $512,638

    • 5R01AI137270-08Department: NIH department code
      Radical SAM-dependent methylation in antibiotic resistance
      $512,638
      award amount

  36. Matthew N McCarroll

    Leads 1 award · $484,500

    • 5DP1DA058350-04Department: NIH department code
      New Technologies for Accelerating the Discovery and Characterization of Neuroactives that Address Substance Use Disorders
      $484,500
      award amount

  37. Bo Huang

    Leads 2 awards · $460,316

    • 5R01GM131641-08Department: NIH department code
      Mapping endogenous protein dynamics in living cells
      $347,225
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163837-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping protein dynamics in living cells
      $113,091
      award amount

  38. Toshimichi Yamada

    Leads 1 award · $451,000

    • 1R21MH144687-01Department: NIH department code
      Using Synthetic Organizers to Drive Multi-Axis Patterning of Brain Organoids
      $451,000
      award amount

  39. Nicole Delrosso

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5DP5OD039380-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel high-throughput approaches to discover and dissect human transcriptional protein interactions
      $410,000
      award amount

  40. Katherine Julia Susa

    Leads 1 award · $403,750

    • 5DP5OD036136-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying, Characterizing, and Targeting Regulators of B Cell Activation
      $403,750
      award amount

  41. Lei Wang

    Leads 1 award · $369,034

    • 2R01GM118384-09Department: NIH department code
      Adding new covalent bonds to proteins in live cells
      $369,034
      award amount

  42. Emily A Hammad Mrig

    Leads 1 award · $207,038

    • 5K01HG013687-03Department: NIH department code
      Promoting Access to Payment Pathways for Emerging Molecular Diagnostics
      $207,038
      award amount

  43. Charles P Hart

    Leads 1 award · $203,183

    • 1S15OD039795-01Department: NIH department code
      Contact-free centrifuged-based microplate washer for UCSF Small Molecule Discovery Center core facility
      $203,183
      award amount

  44. Shuvo Roy

    Leads 1 award · $202,375

    • 1R21EB038616-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A block copolymer-based urea adsorption cartridge for dialysate regeneration
      $202,375
      award amount

  45. Zi Yao

    Leads 1 award · $182,196

    • 1K99AI193236-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing antibody-driven bioconjugation to modulate immune function
      $182,196
      award amount

  46. Lee Schnaider

    Leads 1 award · $124,767

    • 5K99GM157551-02Department: NIH department code
      Probing the Rules of Protein Structure-Function Relationships through the De Novo Design of Functional Proteins
      $124,767
      award amount

  47. Yuda Chen

    Leads 1 award · $124,767

    • 1K99GM163003-01Department: NIH department code
      De novo Design of Proteins for Catalysis and Fluorescence Imaging
      $124,767
      award amount

  48. Austin Joseph Graham

    Leads 1 award · $124,689

    • 5K99EB037059-02Department: NIH department code
      Dynamically reconfigurable materials for 4D bioprinting of a human gut-brain axis
      $124,689
      award amount

  49. Jie Liu

    Leads 1 award · $123,147

    • 1K99GM159039-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the interaction between DEAD-box helicases and RNA by bifunctional molecules and molecular glues
      $123,147
      award amount

  50. Noah Greenwald

    Leads 1 award · $97,686

    • 5K00CA264307-04Department: NIH department code
      USING DEEP MUTATIONAL SCANNING TO CHARACTERIZE TUMOR-IMMUNE INTERACTIONS
      $97,686
      award amount

  51. Archana Venkataraman

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 1K99DK139516-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting estrogen signaling in gut epithelial-nerve interactions
      $90,000
      award amount

  52. Ian Bakanas

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32GM154484-03Department: NIH department code
      De novo design of photoacid-binding proteins to study proton dynamics in biological systems
      $79,348
      award amount

  53. Trenton Peters-Clarke

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32CA298768-02Department: NIH department code
      Toward Understanding the Functional Landscape of Proteolysis at the Cell Surface
      $79,348
      award amount

  54. Jack Michael Moen

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32AI176916-02Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of ADP-Ribosylation as a Target During HIV-1 Latency and Reactivation
      $76,780
      award amount

  55. Maggie Horst

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32GM163375-01Department: NIH department code
      De novo design of allosterically regulated proteins to study intramolecular signal transduction
      $75,052
      award amount

  56. Carolyn Ku

    Leads 1 award · $43,101

    • 5F31HL178181-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing understanding of cardiac regeneration through comparative analysis across vertebrates
      $43,101
      award amount

  57. Victoria Bowcut

    Leads 1 award · $42,853

    • 5F31CA301949-02Department: NIH department code
      The Development of Selective Inhibitors to Oncogenic Rac1 Variants
      $42,853
      award amount

  58. Vanna Tran

    Leads 1 award · $42,633

    • 5F31GM156031-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the mechanisms underlying the mammalian kinetochore's structural integrity under force
      $42,633
      award amount

  59. Zachary Mullin-Bernstein

    Leads 1 award · $42,633

    • 5F31CA291047-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Mechanistic Impact of PRC1 Overexpression on Mammalian Spindle Mechanics
      $42,633
      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.