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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Genetics at University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$15.9M
$15,903,483
Awards
35
FY2025 NIH awards in Genetics
Principal investigators
43
29 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 54 · 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 Genetics row of the University of Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

29 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. David Pincus

    Leads 1 award · $1,358,408

  2. Xiaochang Zhang

    Leads 2 awards · $984,661

    • 5R01MH130594-03Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency by redirecting alternative splicing
      $517,833
      award amount
    • 5R35GM152177-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific pre-mRNA Splicing
      $466,828
      award amount

  3. Sally Horne-Badovinac

    Leads 2 awards · $860,521

    • 5R35GM148285-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of epithelial migration and basement membrane assembly
      $593,761
      award amount
    • 5T32HD055164-17Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Developmental Biology

      Principal investigators: Sally Horne-Badovinac (contact PI), Paschalis Kratsios, Victoria E. Prince

      $266,760
      award amount

  4. Edwin Marshall Munro

    Leads 1 award · $852,721

  5. Joseph W Thornton

    Leads 1 award · $852,721

  6. Francesca Luca

    Leads 2 awards · $831,600

    • 5R01ES033634-05Department: NIH department code
      Functional genomics of GxE in cardiovascular disease: BPA, phthalates and their interactions with gene regulation

      Principal investigators: Francesca Luca (contact PI), Roger Pique-Regi, Xiaoquan Wen

      $465,833
      award amount
    • 2R01GM109215-09Department: NIH department code
      Functional Characterization of the Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Complex Traits

      Principal investigators: Francesca Luca (contact PI), Roger Pique-Regi

      $365,767
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM139782-05, led by Joseph W Thornton.

  7. Xin He

    Leads 1 award · $755,042

    • 5R01AI175554-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic variation of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification in immune cells and its contribution to human diseases

      Principal investigators: Xin He (contact PI), Luis Bruno Barreiro

      $755,042
      award amount

  8. Jonathan P Staley

    Leads 1 award · $671,611

    • 2R01HG011067-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel methods to detect and interpret splicing quantitative trait loci - Renewal

      Principal investigators: Jonathan P Staley (contact PI), Yang Li

      $671,611
      award amount

  9. Benjamin S Glick

    Leads 1 award · $667,931

    • 5R35GM144050-04Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the logic circuit for Golgi membrane traffic
      $667,931
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM144292-04, led by Edwin Marshall Munro.

  10. David R Kovar

    Leads 1 award · $627,838

    • 5R35GM153234-02Department: NIH department code
      Actin Cytoskeleton Network Self-Organization
      $627,838
      award amount

  11. John Novembre

    Leads 2 awards · $592,882

    • 5R35GM149521-03Department: NIH department code
      Theory, Methods, and Resources for Understanding and Leveraging Spatial Variation in Population Genetic Data
      $396,586
      award amount
    • 1R21HG014303-01Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the relation between genetic relatedness and phenotypic covariance
      $196,296
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM139782-05, led by Joseph W Thornton.

  12. Margaret Lise Gardel

    Leads 1 award · $541,967

    • 1R35GM156484-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanical Information Processing from Sub-cellular to Tissue Scales
      $541,967
      award amount

  13. Matthew Stephens

    Leads 1 award · $498,901

    • 5R01HG002585-18Department: NIH department code
      Genome analysis: statistical methods and applications
      $498,901
      award amount

  14. Richard G Fehon

    Leads 1 award · $492,727

    • 5R01NS034783-25Department: NIH department code
      Function of NF2/Merlin in regulation of the Hippo/Salvador/Warts growth control pathway
      $492,727
      award amount

  15. Zhuzhu Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $492,000

    • 5DP1DA061008-02Department: NIH department code
      The Genetic and Epigenetic Interplay of Cocaine Addiction: A Cell-Type, Circuitry, and Functional Dissection
      $492,000
      award amount

  16. Stephen J. Kron

    Leads 1 award · $481,444

    • 5R01CA282781-03Department: NIH department code
      PAIRS: Validating telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) as an intrinsic vulnerability toward sensitizing cancer to radiation

      Principal investigators: Stephen J. Kron (contact PI), Karl A Scheidt

      $481,444
      award amount

  17. Robert Arnulfo Carrillo

    Leads 2 awards · $464,008

    • 5R01NS123439-05Department: NIH department code
      IgSF protein interactions drive specificity in circuit wiring and synaptic elaboration
      $399,524
      award amount
    • 3R01NS123439-05S1Department: NIH department code
      IgSF protein interactions drive specificity in circuit wiring and synaptic elaboration
      $64,484
      award amount

  18. Elizabeth (ellie) S Heckscher

    Leads 1 award · $458,806

  19. Francois Spitz

    Leads 1 award · $445,033

    • 5R35GM153238-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and Epigenetic Controls of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions
      $445,033
      award amount

  20. Michael A. Glotzer

    Leads 1 award · $435,697

    • 5R35GM127091-08Department: NIH department code
      Spatial and temporal control of Rho family GTPases
      $435,697
      award amount

  21. Michael Rust

    Leads 1 award · $435,126

    • 1R35GM156429-01Department: NIH department code
      Connecting Circadian Clock Dynamics to Metabolism and Fitness
      $435,126
      award amount

  22. Sampriti Mukherjee

    Leads 1 award · $401,296

    • 5R35GM150803-03Department: NIH department code
      Probing the role of sensory cues in the regulation of bacterial biofilm development
      $401,296
      award amount

  23. Alexander Jackson Ruthenburg

    Leads 1 award · $397,627

    • 5R35GM145373-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining the mechanisms of epigenetic information flow
      $397,627
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM139782-05, led by Joseph W Thornton.

  24. Jeremy Jackson Berg

    Leads 1 award · $392,592

    • 5R35GM151257-03Department: NIH department code
      Population genetic modeling of genetic variation for complex traits and diseases
      $392,592
      award amount

  25. Maanasa Raghavan

    Leads 1 award · $391,476

    • 5R35GM143094-05Department: NIH department code
      Reconstructing the evolutionary history of humans and human-associated microbes in South Asia using an integrated genomics approach
      $391,476
      award amount

  26. Noah Prentice Mitchell

    Leads 2 awards · $344,815

    • 5R00HD110675-03Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the mechanical interactions between tissue layers sculpting organ shape
      $230,015
      award amount
    • 3R00HD110675-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Mechanical Interactions between Tissue Layers Sculping Organ Shape
      $114,800
      award amount

  27. Sarah Virginia Paramore

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32DK145022-01Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering how directional cues are relayed into polarized collective cell migration
      $75,520
      award amount

  28. Ruiling Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31NS136004-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering DIP-α signaling pathways underlying circuit assembly
      $49,538
      award amount

  29. Michael Zelko

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 1F31GM157953-01Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of the long non-coding RNA HOTTIP in regulation of the HOXA gene cluster
      $48,974
      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.