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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

Funding
$18.8M
$18,797,877
Awards
37
FY2025 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
41
22 lead a grant here, 19 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

22 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. Brendan A. Harley

    Leads 7 awards · $2,637,102

    • 1R01HD118600-01Department: NIH department code
      Physiomimetic Models of Endometrioma Initiation

      Principal investigators: Brendan A. Harley (contact PI), Kathryn Bridges Harley Clancy, Romana A. Nowak

      $643,049
      award amount
    • 5R01DK099528-08Department: NIH department code
      Gradient biomaterials to investigate niche regulation of hematopoiesis
      $574,828
      award amount
    • 5R01CA256481-05Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $499,601
      award amount
    • 5R01DE030491-05Department: NIH department code
      Mineralized collagen composite to accelerate craniofacial bone regeneration
      $426,799
      award amount
    • 5R01AR077858-05Department: NIH department code
      Stratified and mechanically-tough biomaterial implant to improve tendon-to-bone enthesis regeneration
      $364,764
      award amount
    • 3R01CA256481-05S2Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $76,034
      award amount
    • 3R01CA256481-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Perivascular tissue models to overcome MGMT-mediated temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
      $52,027
      award amount

  2. Haohua Tu

    Leads 1 award · $2,466,980

    • 1R01HD116881-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Improving IVF Success through Multiplexed Optical Metabolic Imaging

      Principal investigators: Haohua Tu (contact PI), Matthew B Wheeler

      $2,466,980
      award amount

  3. Andrew Michael Smith

    Leads 4 awards · $2,287,074

    • 5R01DK139924-02Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage-Targeted Drug Delivery Depot for Obesity and Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes
      $628,180
      award amount
    • 5R01EB032725-04Department: NIH department code
      Digital Multiplexed Analysis of Circulating Nucleic Acids in Small-Volume Blood Specimens

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

      $600,953
      award amount
    • 5R01CA288207-02Department: 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
    • 5R01DK131782-04Department: NIH department code
      Nanomedicine-Based Targeting of Inflammatory Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair

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

      $487,388
      award amount

  4. Thomas Gaj

    Leads 3 awards · $1,453,297

    • 5U01NS122102-04Department: 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

      $993,968
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123556-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of a CRISPR-Cas13 Gene Therapy for SOD1-Linked ALS
      $330,029
      award amount
    • 3U01NS122102-04S1Department: 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

      $129,300
      award amount

  5. Rohit Bhargava

    Leads 3 awards · $1,086,463

    • 5R01CA260830-05Department: NIH department code
      Real time colon histopathology by infrared spectroscopic imaging
      $477,213
      award amount
    • 5R01EB009745-12Department: NIH department code
      Discrete Frequency Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Breast Histopathology
      $450,890
      award amount
    • 5T32EB019944-10Department: NIH department code
      Tissue microenvironment (TIMe) training program

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

      $158,360
      award amount

  6. Fan Lam

    Leads 2 awards · $1,074,377

    • 5R01AG078797-04Department: 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

      $696,672
      award amount
    • 5R35GM142969-05Department: NIH department code
      Towards In Vivo Imaging of Tissue Metabolomics
      $377,705
      award amount

  7. Bumsoo Han

    Leads 1 award · $932,376

    • 5U01CA274304-05Department: 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

      $932,376
      award amount

  8. Brian T. Cunningham

    Leads 1 award · $776,341

  9. Ling-Jian Meng

    Leads 1 award · $727,680

    • 4UH3EB034715-03Department: NIH department code
      1 mm resolution single-photon spectral imaging of the brain

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

      $727,680
      award amount

  10. Zhi-Pei Liang

    Leads 1 award · $700,067

    • 1U01EB036001-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Fast high-resolution simultaneous metabolic and multiparametric imaging of the whole brain

      Principal investigators: Zhi-Pei Liang (contact PI), Chao Ma, Hui Mao, Peter B Barker

      $700,067
      award amount

  11. Cunjiang Yu

    Leads 1 award · $622,627

    • 7R01DE033515-02Department: NIH department code
      Optoelectroactive citrate biocomposites for bone regeneration
      $622,627
      award amount

  12. Michael L. Oelze

    Leads 1 award · $581,413

    • 1R01EB036800-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of low cost, high channel count research platform for democratizing 3D volumetric ultrasound
      $581,413
      award amount

  13. Mark A Anastasio

    Leads 2 awards · $535,985

    • 5R01EB034249-03Department: NIH department code
      Deep learning technologies for estimating the optimal task performance of medical imaging systems
      $432,812
      award amount
    • 5R01EB031585-04Department: NIH department code
      A Computational Framework Enabling Virtual Imaging Trials of 3D Quantitative Optoacoustic Tomography Breast Imaging
      $103,173
      award amount

  14. Hyunjoon Kong

    Leads 1 award · $425,187

    • 5R01AI160671-04Department: NIH department code
      Self-Locomotive Antimicrobial Micro-Robot (SLAM) Enhancing Biofilm-Infected Wound Healing
      $425,187
      award amount

  15. Yun-Sheng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $419,203

    • 5R01DK138939-02Department: NIH department code
      Brain Vascular Signatures in Drug-induced Recurrent Hypoglycemia and Associated Cognitive Dysfunction
      $419,203
      award amount

  16. Yang Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $396,500

    • 1R35GM157121-01Department: NIH department code
      Probing and controlling chirality across scales using nanophotonic platforms
      $396,500
      award amount

  17. Jun S Song

    Leads 1 award · $383,162

    • 5R01CA163336-12Department: NIH department code
      Predicting Transcriptional and Epigenetic Networks in Cancer from Sequencing Data
      $383,162
      award amount

  18. Cecilia Maria Leal

    Leads 1 award · $376,138

    • 5R01GM143723-04Department: NIH department code
      Endosomal escape of lipid-based nanoparticles comprising Gaussian curvature lipids
      $376,138
      award amount

  19. Diwakar Shukla

    Leads 1 award · $356,066

    • 5R35GM142745-05Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating sequence, structural and dynamic basis of the functional regulation of membrane proteins
      $356,066
      award amount

  20. Yuan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $318,288

    • 5R01HD109157-05Department: NIH department code
      Shift from Unilateral to Bilateral Sensory-Motor Connectivity in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke
      $318,288
      award amount

  21. Yang Liu

    Leads 1 award · $187,013

    • 5R01CA254112-07Department: NIH department code
      Imaging nanoscale chromatin folding in early carcinogenesis
      $187,013
      award amount

  22. Pranav Dorbala

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 1F30HL178360-01Department: NIH department code
      Individualized Prediction of Progression to Heart Failure Using Digital Twins, an Explainable Reinforcement Learning Approach
      $54,538
      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.