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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Houston

Houston, TX

Funding
$2.2M
$2,198,870
Awards
6
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
8
6 lead a grant here, 2 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 Biology row of the University of Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Molly Albecker

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 5R35GM160308-02Department: NIH department code
      Hypertensive Toads: Investigating the Physiological and Evolutionary Pathways to Salt Tolerance in Amphibians
      $431,750
      award amount

  2. Richard P. Meisel

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R35GM152232-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic mechanisms of phenotypic variation within and amongst genotypes, environments, and sexes
      $392,500
      award amount

  3. Jacob Michael Daane

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM150590-04Department: NIH department code
      Phylogenomic mechanisms of trait evolution and resilience to disease
      $387,500
      award amount

  4. Shaun Xiaoliu Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $384,242

    • 5R01CA269002-05Department: NIH department code
      Actively engaging NK cells during virotherapy to induce neoantigen-specific antitumor immunity
      $384,242
      award amount

  5. Yuhong Wang

    Leads 1 award · $314,000

    • 2R01GM111452-09A1Department: NIH department code
      A novel force spectroscopy to study the ribosome power strokes and frameshifting

      Principal investigators: Yuhong Wang (contact PI), Shoujun Xu

      $314,000
      award amount

  6. Quentin Vicens

    Leads 1 award · $288,878

    • 5R01GM150642-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular recognition by ADAR1 of Z-RNA within transcriptomes

      Principal investigators: Quentin Vicens (contact PI), Beat Rolf Vogeli

      $288,878
      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.

  • Shoujun Xu

    Co-investigator on 2R01GM111452-09A1, led by Yuhong Wang

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

  • Beat Rolf Vogeli

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM150642-04, led by Quentin Vicens

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads