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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

Funding
$10.6M
$10,579,056
Awards
17
FY2026 NIH awards in Chemistry
Principal investigators
16
16 lead a grant here, 0 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 Chemistry row of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Paul Hergenrother

    Leads 4 awards · $3,646,736

    • 5R01AI191595-02Department: NIH department code
      Discovering accumulation guidelines and applying them to develop new antibiotics for Gram-negative pathogens
      $1,144,714
      award amount
    • 5R01AI176523-04Department: NIH department code
      FabI Inhibitors as Potent, Gut Microbiome-Sparing Antibiotics
      $977,797
      award amount
    • 5R35CA283859-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing a Suite of Targeted Anticancer Drugs
      $767,885
      award amount
    • 5T32GM136629-07Department: NIH department code
      Training Program at the Chemistry Biology Interface
      $756,340
      award amount

  2. Elena V Romanova

    Leads 1 award · $1,121,287

  3. Jonathan V. Sweedler

    Leads 1 award · $1,121,287

  4. Neil L Kelleher

    Leads 1 award · $1,121,287

  5. Sandra L Rodriguez Zas

    Leads 1 award · $1,121,287

  6. Xiaotang Lu

    Leads 2 awards · $981,725

    • 1DP2DA068576-01Department: NIH department code
      Multiplexed Connectomic Mapping of Brain Microcircuits
      $757,625
      award amount
    • 5R00MH128891-04Department: NIH department code
      New Methodologies for Connectomics
      $224,100
      award amount

  7. Martin D Burke

    Leads 1 award · $721,816

    • 5R35GM118185-09Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Prosthetics and Lego Chemistry
      $721,816
      award amount

  8. Lisa Olshansky

    Leads 1 award · $614,467

    • 1R35GM161556-01Department: NIH department code
      Paragons of Conformational Control in Metalloenzyme Reactivity
      $614,467
      award amount

  9. Liviu M Mirica

    Leads 1 award · $576,075

    • 4R01AG083937-02Department: NIH department code
      Blood-Brain Barrier Permeable Multimodal Imaging Agents for Neurodegenerative Diseases
      $576,075
      award amount

  10. Maria Christina White

    Leads 1 award · $549,475

    • 5R35GM122525-10Department: NIH department code
      Selective C(sp3)-H Oxidations and Functionalizations with Tunable Metal Catalysts for Synthesis
      $549,475
      award amount

  11. Asma Hatoum

    Leads 1 award · $498,496

    • 5R01AI173022-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of anti-phage defenses and their mobilization in staphylococci
      $498,496
      award amount

  12. Jefferson Chan

    Leads 1 award · $411,542

    • 5R35GM133581-07Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Probes for Studying Stem Cells and Environmental Interactions in Aging
      $411,542
      award amount

  13. Scott Eric Denmark

    Leads 1 award · $406,936

    • 5R35GM158150-02Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies on Preparatively Significant Reactions
      $406,936
      award amount

  14. Hee-Sun Han

    Leads 1 award · $396,500

    • 5R35GM147420-05Department: NIH department code
      Chemical toolbox for multiscale, integrative imaging: Connecting cellular gene expression to organ-scale phenotype
      $396,500
      award amount

  15. Anastasia Manesis

    Leads 1 award · $364,622

    • 5R35GM157008-03Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering novel heme chemistry in microbial systems
      $364,622
      award amount

  16. Scott K Silverman

    Leads 1 award · $289,379

    • 5R01GM149566-04Department: NIH department code
      DNAzymes for Site-Specific DNA and RNA Nucleobase Modification
      $289,379
      award amount