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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Houston

Houston, TX

Funding
$9M
$9,035,322
Awards
22
FY2024 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 Houston 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. Kirill V Larin

    Leads 4 awards · $2,485,571

    • 2R01EY022362-12Department: NIH department code
      Optical Coherence Elastography of the Cornea

      Principal investigators: Kirill V Larin (contact PI), Michael D Twa, Salavat R Aglyamov

      $691,052
      award amount
    • 5R01HD086765-08Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Optical Imaging on the Effect of Maternal Polysubstance Exposure on Fetal Brain Microvessel Function

      Principal investigators: Kirill V Larin (contact PI), Irina Larina, Rajesh C Miranda

      $644,921
      award amount
    • 5R01EY030063-05Department: NIH department code
      Biomechanics of accommodation

      Principal investigators: Kirill V Larin (contact PI), Fabrice Manns, Giuliano Scarcelli

      $599,999
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033978-03Department: NIH department code
      No-Touch High Resolution Optical Coherence Elastography of the Cornea using a Heartbeat
      $549,599
      award amount
  2. Chandra Mohan

    Leads 3 awards · $1,404,149

    • 2R01AR074096-06Department: NIH department code
      Monitoring Disease in Lupus
      $648,449
      award amount
    • 5R01DK134055-02Department: NIH department code
      Objective Classification of Lupus Nephritis

      Principal investigators: Chandra Mohan (contact PI), Hien Van Nguyen

      $580,808
      award amount
    • 5R21AR082713-02Department: NIH department code
      Diagnostic utility of antibodies to post-translationally modified nucleosomes in lupus nephritis
      $174,892
      award amount
  3. Rohith Reddy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,266,175

    • 1R01HL173597-01Department: NIH department code
      Early detection of treatment response in myelofibrosis by polarization-sensitive mid-infrared spectroscopic imaging
      $636,333
      award amount
    • 1R01DK135870-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Improving the Accuracy of Lupus Nephritis Diagnosis using Biomarkers Derived from Ultraviolet and Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
      $629,842
      award amount
  4. Muna I. Naash

    Leads 3 awards · $1,103,135

    • 5R01EY010609-27Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of photoreceptor cell degeneration in animal models of retinal diseases

      Principal investigators: Muna I. Naash (contact PI), Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi

      $508,598
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034671-02Department: NIH department code
      Non-viral gene delivery platforms for the treatment of Usher Syndrome Type 2A.
      $400,787
      award amount
    • 5R21EY033872-02Department: NIH department code
      Vector engineering for non-viral delivery of large genomic DNA to the RPE
      $193,750
      award amount
  5. Fatima Aziz Merchant

    Leads 1 award · $665,331

  6. Richard Willson

    Leads 1 award · $417,182

    • 5R61AI174294-02Department: NIH department code
      Smartphone-based POC Testing for HIV Using Glowstick Chemistry
      $417,182
      award amount
  7. Navin Varadarajan

    Leads 1 award · $411,529

    • 5R01GM143243-04Department: NIH department code
      MusIC: A multi-scale technology for integrating dynamic cellular function and molecular profiles
      $411,529
      award amount
  8. Mehmet A. Orman

    Leads 1 award · $382,500

    • 5R01AI143643-05Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing a Self-Digesting-Mediated Reversible Drug Tolerance Mechanism in Bacteria
      $382,500
      award amount
  9. Joseph T Francis

    Leads 1 award · $376,136

    • 5R01NS125435-03Department: NIH department code
      Regenerative Micro-Electrode Peripheral Nerve Interface for Optimized Proprioceptive and Cutaneous specific interfacing
      $376,136
      award amount
  10. Hien Van Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $220,718

    • 5R01CA277739-03Department: NIH department code
      SCH: AI-DOCTOR COLLABORATIVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
      $220,718
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK134055-02, led by Chandra Mohan.

  11. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

    Leads 1 award · $153,627

  12. Ran An

    Leads 1 award · $106,486

    • 5K25HL159358-03Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Red Blood Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Complement Activation and Thromboinflammation in sickle cell disease
      $106,486
      award amount
  13. Larissa Ikelle

    Leads 1 award · $42,782

    • 5F31EY033216-04Department: NIH department code
      The differential behavior of Prph2/Rom1 in rods and cone contributes to Prph2-associated disease heterogeneity
      $42,782
      award amount
  14. Wei-Chuan Shih

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R01EB030623-04Department: NIH department code
      Streamlined and comprehensive circulating tumor exosome profiling by microfluidic arrayed nanoplasmonic sensors and actuators
      $1
      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.

  • Michael D Twa

    Co-investigator on 2R01EY022362-12, led by Kirill V Larin

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

  • Salavat R Aglyamov

    Co-investigator on 2R01EY022362-12, led by Kirill V Larin

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

  • Ashleigh Michelle Francis

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA286648-01A1, led by Fatima Aziz Merchant

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

  • Mia K Markey

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA286648-01A1, led by Fatima Aziz Merchant

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Irina Larina

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD086765-08, led by Kirill V Larin

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Rajesh C Miranda

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD086765-08, led by Kirill V Larin

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Fabrice Manns

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY030063-05, led by Kirill V Larin

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

  • Giuliano Scarcelli

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY030063-05, led by Kirill V Larin

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY010609-27, led by Muna I. Naash

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

  • Pranav J Parikh

    Co-investigator on 5R25HD106896-03, led by Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads