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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Houston

Houston, TX

Funding
$9.1M
$9,122,954
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
21
11 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

11 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 3 awards · $1,861,569

    • 5R01EY022362-14Department: 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
    • 5R01HD086765-10Department: 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

      $644,527
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033978-05Department: 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 · $1,849,129

    • 1R01AR086872-01Department: NIH department code
      GENE ENVIRONMENT TRIGGERS AND PROTEOMIC PATHWAYS MEDIATING ANTI-NUCLEAR AUTOIMMUNITY AND SYSTEMIC RHEUMATIC DISEASE

      Principal investigators: Chandra Mohan (contact PI), Karen H Costenbader

      $667,276
      award amount
    • 5R01DK134055-04Department: NIH department code
      Objective Classification of Lupus Nephritis

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

      $605,010
      award amount
    • 5R01AR074096-08Department: NIH department code
      Monitoring Disease in Lupus
      $576,843
      award amount

  3. Rohith Reddy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,309,074

    • 5R01HL173597-03Department: NIH department code
      Early detection of treatment response in myelofibrosis by polarization-sensitive mid-infrared spectroscopic imaging
      $670,458
      award amount
    • 5R01DK135870-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving the Accuracy of Lupus Nephritis Diagnosis using Biomarkers Derived from Ultraviolet and Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
      $638,616
      award amount

  4. Wei-Chuan Shih

    Leads 2 awards · $1,088,685

    • 1R01CA316276-01Department: NIH department code
      TOWARD TRANSLATION OF NANOPHOTONIC SINGLE EXOSOME LIQUID BIOPSY FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS

      Principal investigators: Wei-Chuan Shih (contact PI), Prasun Kumar Jalal, Steven Hsesheng Lin

      $656,935
      award amount
    • 1R01GM164480-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrated nanophotonic imaging and spectroscopy technology for scalable, purification-free, multi-parametric single exosome analysis
      $431,750
      award amount

  5. Muna I. Naash

    Leads 2 awards · $964,068

    • 5R01EY010609-29Department: 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

      $563,281
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034671-04Department: NIH department code
      Non-viral gene delivery platforms for the treatment of Usher Syndrome Type 2A.
      $400,787
      award amount

  6. Vivek Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $582,724

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

  7. Mini Das

    Leads 1 award · $460,331

    • 5R01EB032416-03Department: NIH department code
      Visual-search ideal observers for modeling reader variability
      $460,331
      award amount

  8. Joseph T Francis

    Leads 1 award · $387,766

    • 5R01NS125435-05Department: NIH department code
      Regenerative Micro-Electrode Peripheral Nerve Interface for Optimized Proprioceptive and Cutaneous specific interfacing
      $387,766
      award amount

  9. Zhengwei Li

    Leads 2 awards · $359,495

    • 5R21EB037317-02Department: NIH department code
      Wireless, Closed?loop System to Restore Urological Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
      $191,799
      award amount
    • 1K25DK144708-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Intelligent Bioelectronic Implants for the Diagnosis and Neuromodulation of Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction
      $167,696
      award amount

  10. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

    Leads 1 award · $153,627

  11. Ran An

    Leads 1 award · $106,486

    • 5K25HL159358-05Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Red Blood Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Complement Activation and Thromboinflammation in sickle cell disease
      $106,486
      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.