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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Connecticut Storrs

Storrs-Mansfield, CT

Funding
$3M
$2,978,264
Awards
8
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
7
4 lead a grant here, 3 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 Connecticut Storrs page.

Leads a grant in this department

4 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. Thanh Nguyen

    Leads 4 awards · $1,860,706

    • 5R01EB036924-02Department: NIH department code
      Injectable cell-free piezoelectric scaffold to treat osteoarthritis in large animal models
      $566,039
      award amount
    • 5R01EB036011-03Department: NIH department code
      Bionic Self-Charged Bone Composite Scaffold

      Principal investigators: Thanh Nguyen (contact PI), Wai Hong Lo

      $513,154
      award amount
    • 5R01NS131310-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel Piezoelectric Amino-acid Ultrasound Transducer to Deliver Drugs Through the Blood Brain Barrier
      $497,554
      award amount
    • 5R01AR080102-05Department: NIH department code
      Biodegradable Piezoelectric Nanocomposite Scaffold with Physical Exercise to Heal Major Cartilage Defects in Large Animals
      $283,959
      award amount

  2. Yongku Peter Cho

    Leads 1 award · $597,272

    • 5R01AG083876-04Department: NIH department code
      A synthetic biology approach for tau post-translational modifications in AD

      Principal investigators: Yongku Peter Cho (contact PI), Jesse Rinehart

      $597,272
      award amount

  3. Kelly Anne Burke

    Leads 2 awards · $441,849

    • 5R35GM146771-05Department: NIH department code
      Highly Tunable Brush-Like Polymer Architectures to Control Therapeutic Delivery and Cell-Material Interactions
      $402,500
      award amount
    • 3R18EB037603-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Implantable, Degradable Drug Delivery Devices for Non-Opioid Post-Surgical Pain Management
      $39,349
      award amount

  4. Sheida Nabavi

    Leads 1 award · $78,437

    • 5R01CA297855-03Department: NIH department code
      SCH: Robust Multimodal Longitudinal AI for Enhanced Breast Cancer Screening

      Principal investigators: Sheida Nabavi (contact PI), Clifford Yang

      $78,437
      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.

  • Jesse Rinehart

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG083876-04, led by Yongku Peter Cho

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Wai Hong Lo

    Co-investigator on 5R01EB036011-03, led by Thanh Nguyen

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

  • Clifford Yang

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA297855-03, led by Sheida Nabavi

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