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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

Funding
$16.2M
$16,197,493
Awards
39
FY2024 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
30
21 lead a grant here, 9 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Andrew Michael Smith

    Leads 7 awards · $2,835,611

    • 1R01DK139924-01Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage-Targeted Drug Delivery Depot for Obesity and Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes
      $587,866
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032725-03Department: NIH department code
      Digital Multiplexed Analysis of Circulating Nucleic Acids in Small-Volume Blood Specimens

      Principal investigators: Andrew Michael Smith (contact PI), Manish Kohli

      $572,094
      award amount
    • 1R01CA288207-01Department: NIH department code
      Translational Combinations of Nanocarriers and Blockers for Metastatic Breast Cancer

      Principal investigators: Andrew Michael Smith (contact PI), Erik Russell Nelson

      $570,553
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032249-04Department: NIH department code
      Hyperplexed Quantum Dots for Multidimensional Cell Classification in Intact Tissue
      $540,320
      award amount
    • 5R01DK131782-03Department: NIH department code
      Nanomedicine-Based Targeting of Inflammatory Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair

      Principal investigators: Andrew Michael Smith (contact PI), Katherine Ann Gallagher

      $479,254
      award amount
    • 3R01EB032249-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Hyperplexed Quantum Dots for Multidimensional Cell Classification in Intact Tissue
      $64,143
      award amount
    • 3R01EB032249-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Hyperplexed Quantum Dots for Multidimensional Cell Classification in Intact Tissue
      $21,381
      award amount

  2. Brendan A. Harley

    Leads 6 awards · $2,016,616

    • 5R01DK099528-07Department: NIH department code
      Gradient biomaterials to investigate niche regulation of hematopoiesis
      $548,805
      award amount
    • 5R01CA256481-04Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $475,049
      award amount
    • 5R01DE030491-04Department: NIH department code
      Mineralized collagen composite to accelerate craniofacial bone regeneration
      $418,264
      award amount
    • 5R01AR077858-04Department: NIH department code
      Stratified and mechanically-tough biomaterial implant to improve tendon-to-bone enthesis regeneration
      $368,579
      award amount
    • 3R01CA256481-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $133,687
      award amount
    • 3R01CA256481-04S2Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $72,232
      award amount

  3. Thomas Gaj

    Leads 3 awards · $1,600,626

    • 5U01NS122102-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of an in vivo base editing strategy to treat SOD1-linked ALS

      Principal investigators: Thomas Gaj (contact PI), Pablo Perez-Pinera

      $1,093,040
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123556-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of a CRISPR-Cas13 Gene Therapy for SOD1-Linked ALS
      $356,539
      award amount
    • 3U01NS122102-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of an in vivo base editing strategy to treat SOD1-linked ALS

      Principal investigators: Thomas Gaj (contact PI), Pablo Perez-Pinera

      $151,047
      award amount

  4. Rohit Bhargava

    Leads 4 awards · $1,521,178

    • 5R01EB009745-11Department: NIH department code
      Discrete Frequency Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Breast Histopathology
      $540,656
      award amount
    • 5R01CA260830-04Department: NIH department code
      Real time colon histopathology by infrared spectroscopic imaging
      $481,866
      award amount
    • 5R01GM142172-04Department: NIH department code
      Instrument development for vibrational circular dichroism imaging
      $332,506
      award amount
    • 5T32EB019944-09Department: NIH department code
      Tissue microenvironment (TIMe) training program

      Principal investigators: Rohit Bhargava (contact PI), Rex Gaskins

      $166,150
      award amount

  5. Fan Lam

    Leads 2 awards · $1,109,987

    • 5R01AG078797-03Department: NIH department code
      High-Throughput 3D Multiscale Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Understanding Neurochemical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Fan Lam (contact PI), Jonathan V. Sweedler, Orly Lazarov

      $731,735
      award amount
    • 5R35GM142969-04Department: NIH department code
      Towards In Vivo Imaging of Tissue Metabolomics
      $378,252
      award amount

  6. Mark A Anastasio

    Leads 2 awards · $963,126

    • 5R01EB031585-03Department: NIH department code
      A Computational Framework Enabling Virtual Imaging Trials of 3D Quantitative Optoacoustic Tomography Breast Imaging
      $515,449
      award amount
    • 5R01EB034249-02Department: NIH department code
      Deep learning technologies for estimating the optimal task performance of medical imaging systems
      $447,677
      award amount

  7. Bumsoo Han

    Leads 1 award · $885,794

    • 5U01CA274304-04Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming PDAC Stroma by Targeting Coagulation in the Tumor Microenvironment

      Principal investigators: Bumsoo Han (contact PI), Matthew J. Flick, Melissa L. Fishel

      $885,794
      award amount

  8. Pablo Perez-Pinera

    Leads 1 award · $536,345

    • 5R01GM141296-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of Technologies for Efficient In Vivo Prime Editing

      Principal investigators: Pablo Perez-Pinera (contact PI), Jun S Song

      $536,345
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01NS122102-03, led by Thomas Gaj; 3U01NS122102-03S1, led by Thomas Gaj.

  9. Rashid Bashir

    Leads 1 award · $509,960

    • 5R01AI148385-04Department: NIH department code
      Point-of-Care Microfluidic Biochip for Biomarkers Monitoring for Contributing in Early Sepsis Diagnosis
      $509,960
      award amount

  10. Gregory H Underhill

    Leads 1 award · $446,688

    • 5R01DK125471-04Department: NIH department code
      Microenvironmental Control of Liver Progenitor Cell Differentiation and Spatial Patterning
      $446,688
      award amount

  11. Yang Liu

    Leads 1 award · $436,738

    • 5R01CA254112-06Department: NIH department code
      Imaging nanoscale chromatin folding in early carcinogenesis
      $436,738
      award amount

  12. Yun-Sheng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $433,576

    • 1R01DK138939-01Department: NIH department code
      Brain Vascular Signatures in Drug-induced Recurrent Hypoglycemia and Associated Cognitive Dysfunction
      $433,576
      award amount

  13. William D. O'Brien

    Leads 1 award · $428,275

    • 5R01CA226528-06Department: NIH department code
      Tumor Detection and Classification using QUS Technology's Structure Function
      $428,275
      award amount

  14. Hyunjoon Kong

    Leads 1 award · $425,187

    • 5R01AI160671-03Department: NIH department code
      Self-Locomotive Antimicrobial Micro-Robot (SLAM) Enhancing Biofilm-Infected Wound Healing
      $425,187
      award amount

  15. Jun S Song

    Leads 1 award · $397,812

    • 2R01CA163336-11Department: NIH department code
      Predicting Transcriptional and Epigenetic Networks in Cancer from Sequencing Data
      $397,812
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01GM141296-04, led by Pablo Perez-Pinera.

  16. Cecilia Maria Leal

    Leads 1 award · $376,138

    • 5R01GM143723-03Department: NIH department code
      Endosomal escape of lipid-based nanoparticles comprising Gaussian curvature lipids
      $376,138
      award amount

  17. Diwakar Shukla

    Leads 1 award · $357,243

    • 5R35GM142745-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating sequence, structural and dynamic basis of the functional regulation of membrane proteins
      $357,243
      award amount

  18. Yuan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $331,501

    • 5R01HD109157-04Department: NIH department code
      Shift from Unilateral to Bilateral Sensory-Motor Connectivity in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke
      $331,501
      award amount

  19. Ling-Jian Meng

    Leads 1 award · $329,447

    • 5UG3EB034715-02Department: NIH department code
      1 mm resolution single-photon spectral imaging of the brain

      Principal investigators: Ling-Jian Meng (contact PI), Scott Dean Metzler

      $329,447
      award amount

  20. Shannon Julianne Sirk

    Leads 1 award · $221,041

    • 5R21EB032548-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Delivery of Therapeutics by Engineered Commensal Microbes
      $221,041
      award amount

  21. Pengfei Song

    Leads 1 award · $34,604

    • 5R01EB031040-03Department: NIH department code
      A novel transducer clip-on device to enable accessible and functional 3D ultrasound imaging
      $34,604
      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.