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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$2M
$2,019,261
Awards
6
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
6
5 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
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 Illinois at Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

5 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. Yury Polikanov

    Leads 2 awards · $628,758

    • 5R35GM151957-03Department: NIH department code
      Structural basis for ribosome function and inhibition in bacteria.
      $392,351
      award amount
    • 1R21AI201903-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural basis of ArmA-mediated resistance to antibiotics targeting the bacterial ribosome
      $236,407
      award amount

  2. Joseph Donald Zak

    Leads 1 award · $553,108

    • 1R01DC022556-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Interhemispheric cortico-bulbar connectivity in the olfactory system
      $553,108
      award amount

  3. Kevin Drew

    Leads 1 award · $380,350

    • 1R35GM164016-01Department: NIH department code
      Systematic characterization of human disease associated protein complexes
      $380,350
      award amount

  4. Ruixuan Gao

    Leads 1 award · $374,697

    • 1R21AR085864-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Expansion and light sheet microscopy imaging of skeleton

      Principal investigators: Ruixuan Gao (contact PI), Frank Ko

      $374,697
      award amount

  5. Vaibhav Konanur

    Leads 1 award · $82,348

    • 1F32DC023770-01Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of Olfactory Processing by Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Signaling
      $82,348
      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.