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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA

Funding
$16.7M
$16,706,032
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
24
14 lead a grant here, 10 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 Engineering row of the University of California Santa Cruz page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Karen Hayden Miga

    Leads 2 awards · $3,603,146

  2. Maximilian Haeussler

    Leads 1 award · $2,987,274

    • 5U24HG002371-27Department: NIH department code
      The UCSC Genome Browser
      $2,987,274
      award amount

  3. David H Haussler

    Leads 1 award · $2,280,554

    • 5U24MH132628-04Department: NIH department code
      Data Resource and Administrative Coordination Center for the Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes Consortium

      Principal investigators: David H Haussler (contact PI), Tomasz Nowakowski

      $2,280,554
      award amount

  4. Benedict Paten

    Leads 3 awards · $2,005,885

    • 2U24HG011853-06Department: NIH department code
      Dockstore - A Platform for Creating, Sharing, Publishing and Reproducing Computational Science

      Principal investigators: Benedict Paten (contact PI), Jonathan Lawson

      $801,203
      award amount
    • 5R01HG014490-02Department: NIH department code
      New methods for studying thousands of complete human and vertebrate genomes

      Principal investigators: Benedict Paten (contact PI), Yatish Turakhia

      $610,815
      award amount
    • 1U01CA309342-01Department: NIH department code
      Pangenome-Aware Methods for Accurate Somatic Variant Discovery in Cancer Genomics
      $593,867
      award amount

  5. Angela Norie Brooks

    Leads 2 awards · $1,131,345

    • 5R01CA284585-03Department: NIH department code
      Computational and functional discovery of isoforms driving cancer and drug resistance

      Principal investigators: Angela Norie Brooks (contact PI), Alice Berger

      $685,279
      award amount
    • 5R35GM138122-07Department: NIH department code
      Novel approaches to improve comprehensive profiling of the epigenome and epitranscriptome
      $446,066
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HG012344-05, led by Christopher Vollmers.

  6. Hsien Wei Yeh

    Leads 2 awards · $966,396

    • 1DP2GM171031-01Department: NIH department code
      Designing biological light from scratch - a new paradigm for bioimaging and biosensing
      $731,646
      award amount
    • 1R21EB039863-01Department: NIH department code
      Hyperstable and modular de novo binder-luciferase platform for multiplexed imaging, detection, and diagnostics
      $234,750
      award amount

  7. Christopher Vollmers

    Leads 3 awards · $859,285

    • 5R35GM133569-08Department: NIH department code
      Realizing the potential of long-read sequencing technology
      $432,759
      award amount
    • 5T32HG012344-05Department: NIH department code
      UCSC Graduate Program in Genome Sciences

      Principal investigators: Christopher Vollmers (contact PI), Angela Norie Brooks

      $267,526
      award amount
    • 3R35GM133569-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Realizing the potential of long-read sequencing technology
      $159,000
      award amount

  8. Rebecca Michelle Dubois

    Leads 1 award · $754,322

    • 5R01AI166066-05Department: NIH department code
      Structure-guided engineering to increase respiratory syncytial virus G protein immunogenicity

      Principal investigators: Rebecca Michelle Dubois (contact PI), Robert J Hogan

      $754,322
      award amount

  9. Camilla Forsberg

    Leads 1 award · $657,298

    • 5R01AG062879-08Department: NIH department code
      Defining the cause and consequence of aging-specific platelet specification from hematopoietic stem cells
      $657,298
      award amount

  10. Russell Corbett-Detig

    Leads 1 award · $447,307

    • 5R35GM128932-08Department: NIH department code
      Origins, Functional, and Evolutionary Consequences of Genomic Variation
      $447,307
      award amount

  11. Shelbi Lianne Russell

    Leads 1 award · $385,638

    • 5R35GM157189-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional genetic basis of Wolbachia-Drosophila endosymbiosis
      $385,638
      award amount

  12. Ali Shariati

    Leads 1 award · $376,841

    • 5R35GM147395-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular feedback between cell division cycle and differentiation in pluripotent stem cells
      $376,841
      award amount

  13. Ju Hee Lee

    Leads 1 award · $125,741

    • 5R01GM157612-03Department: NIH department code
      DMS/NIGMS 2: Bayesian Statistical Methods for Comprehensive Inferences on Microbial Community Dynamics Using High-Throughput Sequencing Data
      $125,741
      award amount

  14. Estefania Sanchez Vasquez

    Leads 1 award · $125,000

    • 1K99GM162991-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the relationship between totipotency and epigenetic reprogramming during the formation of induced pluripotent stem cells
      $125,000
      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.