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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Houston

Houston, TX

Funding
$10.5M
$10,516,788
Awards
24
FY2025 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
24
17 lead a grant here, 7 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

17 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 · $2,282,241

    • 5R01EY022362-13Department: NIH department code
      Optical Coherence Elastography of the Cornea

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

      $667,443
      award amount
    • 5R01HD086765-09Department: 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

      $648,037
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033978-04Department: NIH department code
      No-Touch High Resolution Optical Coherence Elastography of the Cornea using a Heartbeat
      $549,599
      award amount
    • 1R21EY037454-01Department: NIH department code
      Birefringence of the Lamina Cribrosa and Posterior Eye Structures
      $417,162
      award amount

  2. Rohith Reddy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,222,208

    • 5R01HL173597-02Department: NIH department code
      Early detection of treatment response in myelofibrosis by polarization-sensitive mid-infrared spectroscopic imaging
      $648,882
      award amount
    • 5R01DK135870-02Department: NIH department code
      Improving the Accuracy of Lupus Nephritis Diagnosis using Biomarkers Derived from Ultraviolet and Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
      $573,326
      award amount

  3. Chandra Mohan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,146,487

    • 5R01DK134055-03Department: NIH department code
      Objective Classification of Lupus Nephritis

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

      $600,680
      award amount
    • 5R01AR074096-07Department: NIH department code
      Monitoring Disease in Lupus
      $545,807
      award amount

  4. Muna I. Naash

    Leads 3 awards · $1,085,922

    • 2R01EY010609-28Department: 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

      $605,791
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034671-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-viral gene delivery platforms for the treatment of Usher Syndrome Type 2A.
      $400,787
      award amount
    • 3R01EY034671-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Admin Supplement: Non-viral gene delivery platforms for the treatment of Usher Syndrome Type 2A
      $79,344
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21EY037470-01, led by Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi.

  5. Fatima Aziz Merchant

    Leads 1 award · $706,950

  6. Wei-Chuan Shih

    Leads 1 award · $647,192

    • 5R01EB030623-05Department: NIH department code
      Streamlined and comprehensive circulating tumor exosome profiling by microfluidic arrayed nanoplasmonic sensors and actuators
      $647,192
      award amount

  7. Vivek Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $582,724

    • 7R01DE031812-05Department: NIH department code
      Angiogenic and Anti-microbial Supports for Pulp Regeneration
      $582,724
      award amount

  8. Howard Carl Gifford

    Leads 1 award · $502,178

    • 5R01EB032416-02Department: NIH department code
      Visual-search ideal observers for modeling reader variability
      $502,178
      award amount

  9. Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R21EY037470-01Department: NIH department code
      Mutation-independent therapy for retinal degenerations caused by PRPH2 mutations

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

      $431,750
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2R01EY010609-28, led by Muna I. Naash.

  10. Mehmet A. Orman

    Leads 1 award · $398,282

    • 1R01CA288236-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Connection: How Metabolism Shapes Mammalian Persister Survival
      $398,282
      award amount

  11. Richard Willson

    Leads 1 award · $392,731

    • 5R61AI174294-03Department: NIH department code
      Smartphone-based POC Testing for HIV Using Glowstick Chemistry
      $392,731
      award amount

  12. Joseph T Francis

    Leads 1 award · $387,766

    • 5R01NS125435-04Department: NIH department code
      Regenerative Micro-Electrode Peripheral Nerve Interface for Optimized Proprioceptive and Cutaneous specific interfacing
      $387,766
      award amount

  13. Hien Van Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $220,766

    • 5R01CA277739-04Department: NIH department code
      SCH: AI-DOCTOR COLLABORATIVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
      $220,766
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK134055-03, led by Chandra Mohan.

  14. Zhengwei Li

    Leads 1 award · $206,132

    • 1R21EB037317-01Department: NIH department code
      Wireless, Closed?loop System to Restore Urological Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
      $206,132
      award amount

  15. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

    Leads 1 award · $153,627

  16. Ran An

    Leads 1 award · $106,486

    • 5K25HL159358-04Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Red Blood Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Complement Activation and Thromboinflammation in sickle cell disease
      $106,486
      award amount

  17. Larissa Ikelle

    Leads 1 award · $43,346

    • 5F31EY033216-05Department: NIH department code
      The differential behavior of Prph2/Rom1 in rods and cone contributes to Prph2-associated disease heterogeneity
      $43,346
      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.